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Vista taking much longer to boot after upgrading the CPU


kcznsk

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I had an i5 650 on this desktop, then I decided to upgrade it to an i7 870, but for some reason it's taking about 5 minutes to boot from hdd (it'd take about a minute before), and the computer got slower as well.

I tried reinstalling the chipset drivers but nothing changed.

From what I tested, the CPU is about 60°C idle, could it be because of this?

Does anyone know what the cause might be?

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I tried reseating the cooler but it didn't help.

I'm using the i5 stock cooler, should I get a new one?

Still, would it affect this much the performance of the i7? It's much slower than the i5.

Would reinstalling windows vista fix the fact that it's taking 5 minutes to boot as opposed to 1?

 

Edit: I put the i5 back in and it's taking about 40 seconds to get to the login screen. Could there be something wrong with this i7?

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I figured what the problem was, it had nothing to do with the OS.

I had 2x4GB + 2x2GB RAM, after I removed the 2x2GB the computer was taking the same time as before to boot. I don't know why but apparently this was making the i7 870 boot slower while not affecting the i5 650.

Now everything is fine.

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16 hours ago, kcznsk said:

I figured what the problem was, it had nothing to do with the OS.

I had 2x4GB + 2x2GB RAM, after I removed the 2x2GB the computer was taking the same time as before to boot. I don't know why but apparently this was making the i7 870 boot slower while not affecting the i5 650.

Now everything is fine.

I still suggest you to update the bios to the latest version (if the current version that you have is outdated) and try again with all sticks of ram

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