Very slow vista!

[sinjon2112]

Hi everyone. My first post so go easy pls.

Just installed vista 5112, it took over 6 hours to complete and runs really slow from boot to shut down & everything in between. Also mouse really slow & jumpy.

I've installed on 26gb second partition F behind XP on C.

PC is Athlon XP2400+, 1gb PC2100 & Hitachi Deskstar 160gb EIDE 7200rpm 8mb & MSI nvidia geforce fx5200 128mb. This set up is getting on a bit now, but runs everything else really well, incl Photoshop & Premiere.

One other thing, Partition Magic shows the partition as full, all 26gb. But in XP there is only about 5gb used. Maybe something and nothing?

Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks.

[ripken204]

i would have to guess that it has to be something with the drivers, make sure u get drivers that are compatible with vista

[sinjon2112]

Thanks ripken204. I installed nvidia vista driver but it made no difference. Can anyone suggest any others I should be trying or a good place to look?

[alexanrs]

Maybe it is something about the Graphics Card? It seems that Vista puts part of the functions that handles the interface in the Graphics Card, and the Vista driver for NVidea Geforce cards does not support it yet??

[K e n]

Wow, I can't believe I finally found someone else with the same problem as me..

My system is also an athlon XP2400+ with 764mb pc2100 ram

& ati 9200se graphics...

I have installed Vista twice now with the same outcome as you although it took

4 hours both times for me...

I have run into this problem before when I installed 98se when I only had a

single 40gig hard-drive on the primary IDE channel.

I would install the OS & all would be fine until I installed the motherboard

drivers, then it would do the same as this vista install, the ide light would

flash every second & the mouse would only move the same time the ide

light would flash.

So I formatted & started again, all would be good until the motherboard

drivers would be installed....

Then I installed XP pro thinking 98se was too old for the system &

it did exactly the same thing although on 1st boot, didn't even get

the chance to load drivers.

After 3 days of persevering I found that if I piggy backed another drive

set up as slave on the primary ide channel it fixed it...

So now I removed the slave & altered the jumper settings on the master

& started re-installing the OS's again, but still ended up slow no matter

what configuration of jumper settings were made on the master..

I tried Cable select, master without slave, master with a slave & even

jumpered across the master/slave as some western digital drives used

to be jumpered but still no good..

As soon as I added a slave to the same channel all would work perfect,

yet for some reason on vista it makes no difference....

Now i'm thinking it's a MoBo problem { Epox 8KMM+}

As a last resort I have a 120gig drive i'll be using as the master & will

piggy back another brand of drive to the slave on the primary channel.

As these 2 40gig seagate drives have died totally, won't even detect

on bootup, any wonder, the amount of times I formatted & re-installed...

Edited September 5, 2005 by K e n

[MaGYaR]

mine took about 1 1/2 hours to install, takes a fair bit of time to shutdown the system and is noticeable when opening a window compared to other OS

im running p4 2.4ghz with 1GB ram

[Lijiman]

30 minutes for me!

AMD64 3500+ socket 939

1GIG DDR PC3200 OCZ RAM

[Tihiy]

I'm also affected! Athlon-1000,Abit KT7A,256 PC133,120GB,GF4MX - took 4 hours to install, everything works very slow, but, in safemode, everything works perfect (both for Beta1 and 5219)!

I've tried removing all devices, reinstalling drivers from XP, but still no remedy.

Maybe Microsoft can help?

Edited September 18, 2005 by Tihiy

[rico2k_uk]

there is a flaw in the vista drivers for most AMD processors. i have the 2600+xp and had the same problem..

i cant remember where, but there is a driver set on this forum which i had to install over the vista ones (after it installed after 8 hours), which made it all run perfectly!

[Tihiy]

amdk7.sys ?! Try to remember, rico2k_uk!

I'm not sure that it is driver problem, looks like more a chipset problem (<=266Mhz AMD chipsets affected).

[gunsmokingman]

Approx 45 to 60 minutes to install Vista 5219 on the last build it took from approx 60 to 90 minutes.

Amd 1.7

512 ram

128 mb Ati card

I started my install from a desktop after copying the entire contents, to a folder

on my harddrive. It could be a bad copy of Vista or a bad burn, that causing the

issue you are having.

[war59312]

Took about an hour here. AMD 2200 @ 1.8Ghz and 1GB RAM 128MB ATI Radeon 9200 . Older builds like beta one took about 30 mins.

[X-Ecutioner]

My time for 5219....bout 30-40min on my laptop. It runs perfectly fine on my laptop - aside from the fact I havent played with drivers yet. lol gotta love my boss's msdn subscription. I won't keep it as a dual-boot option until they throw in the new IIS and its a little farther done.

[rico2k_uk]

it is supprisingly a driver problem for the amd chipset! i was kinda suprised myself... just about to reinstall vista with the new build so will find it and post a link here for you all!

[rico2k_uk]

i have the drivers : http://drivers.softpedia.com/get/Other-DRI...126001152.shtml