building a computer?

Question

I've just finish building a computer but it's running really slow. I have 512MB RAM 3300MHZ and I'm running a AMD ATHLON XP 2700 on my motherboard. It takes for ever to load XP. What could my problem be

Answer 1

You probably need to install the mainboard drivers. Find out who manufactured the mobo (Asus, Abit,Tyan, etc.) and get the drivers for that particular board. Usually improper IDE drivers will slowwwwwdown access time dramatically.

Good luck

Answer 2

1. Make sure you used the 80 wire ribbon and NOT the 40 wire ribbon for connecting the hard drive. The 40 wire ribbon is for the optical drive.
2. A newly installed XP SP1 (no drivers yet) usually takes less than 2 passes of the horizontal blue scroll bar (loading indicator) for Windows to load. After SP2 and chipset drivers, it increases to 3-6 passes. More drivers and startups would increase loading time.

Your OS could be messed up or something is wrong w/ your hard drive. Try this Win XP repair:
http://www.informationweek.com/shared/printableArticle.jhtml?articleID=189400897

Answer 3

A lot of things, but to start, have you defragged and done a disk cleanup yet? Also, 512 isn't too bad for XP, but you should up it to 1024, RAM is cheap now, it's worth it. You can also go to Run and type in msconfig and stop unnecessary SERVICES from starting up every time you begin XP. Also, you might have to update your drivers. All these possible solutions are free and pretty easy to do, just google them. Good luck, and congrats on building your own system!

Answer 4

Make sure the cpu is set to the correct speed in the cmos.
Also is this a clean formatted hard drive. ? Make sure ram
is registering 512Mb .

Answer 5

1st w/3300 mhz you should be running twice the ram for performance and amd is no prize. what size hdd do you have?

Answer 6

too many programs starting is normally the problem, but you could use some more ram