Slow PC after motherboard upgrade

[az2]

Hi there, I have aquestion that I hope someone can help me on. I just recently upgrade my old PC that had a AMD Duron 800 mhz processor to a new motherboard and AMD Sempron 2800+ CPU with 1GB of PC2700 memory. Everything else has stayed the same, ATI grpahics, Western Digital 160GB HDD, CDRW, etc. All I did was swap out the board and memory. Everything was straight forward. My problem started the very first whne I booted up the new board and starting Windows XP was going slower than a snail. Whne the machine finally fires up, it runs really fast. But I am getting annoyed that every so often it takes a long time to boot or login. Any ideas?

 

[franklin97355]

With a change that big you should have done a clean install of xp. Did you?

 

[stduc]

franklin is 100% correct. If you don't want to do that, then with the windows CD in the drive, manually update every driver of every device, allowing windows to search the 'net' as well as the CD. This can work - but it takes so long I would really recommend you backup your data & do a clean install.

 

[ceh4702]

Motherboard has a different chipset probably. Try installing the chipset drivers and see if that works. XP also has an option to do a repair install, but I have never tried that. With Windows XP you are lucky it worked at all. It is probably best to do complete install onto freshly formatted drives. I would even run FDISK to completely set the drives back up. On a used drive I like to run a utility to write zeros to the entire drive.

You might want to back up any files you cant live without.

If you do not like my post feel free to point out your opinion or my errors.

 

[garebo]

What ceh4702 and others have said!
With used hard drives I also run the h drive mfgr diagnostic floppy and write zeros to the drive, then i fdisk and format fat32, even though win xp will be formatting NTFS, that way the drive is clean, possibly even cleaning any virus it may have possibly had. Its extra work that is well worth it!
The way you did it, Az2, thats why you are having problems with it and they are bound to increase if you leave it that way.


Good advice + great people = tek-tips

 

[Kakkarotto]

Have you checked the FSB settings on the motherboard along with the appropriate multiplier!
This could also be set in the CMOS settings depending on the manufacturer.

 

[az2]

Thanks everyone for the input so far. I knew I was in for it rushing through the process. I have been travelling a lot so I thought I'd take the easy way out. I'll try and run the repair first and hopefully that will do it.