I just recently purchased a new system, after installing everything went to install windows. The non-gui part seems to go smoothly, am able to format in ntfs using a bootable xp cd, however the GUI portion of the setup took 2+ hours. Got thru that and got to desktop and everything is slow, 5+ second response when I right click desktop, I pull up task mngr to check cpu usage and not doing anything its at about 25-27%. I start moving the mouse around the screen and it jumps to 71%. I tried installing drivers for the mobo and vid cards, still nothing. So I swap out the HDD with a known good one from my old PC and have the same probs. I even tried using a known good CD-ROM drive and installing it a 3rd time. It's not currently connected to my network so no nasties could've gotten in. Really not sure what I'm doing wrong, the OS cd worked fine on another PC. ALso have tried installing without the 2nd vid card. Do I "need" the 64 bit version of xp to for this to work right? Hardware is as follows specs are: Mobo: ASUS A8N-SLI CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Venice 1GHz FSB Socket 939 Video cards: 2 PROLINK PV-N43ET(256KD) Geforce 6600 256MB DDR PCI Express x16 Video Card RAM: CORSAIR ValueSelect 1GB 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200) HDD: Western Digital Caviar SE WD800JB 80GB 7200 RPM IDE Ultra ATA100 Hard Drive.(also tried 40gb seagate drive, currently attached via IDE) Dvd ROM: LITE-ON Black IDE Combo Drive PSU: 450w generic psu(which i plan to upgrade btw) Title Edited - Please follow new posting rules from now on. --Zxian
