A couple months ago, my motherboard finally kicked the bucket,so I decided to upgrade. I recieved a new mobo and processor, and because I didn’t have time, had a place install it for me.
He asked me if I wanted him to install XP on it, and I told him no, I can do it, so I can save some money.
Well, since ive got it home, ive had nothing but problems.
I can partition/format my hard drives fine, but after that part of the XP install, after it reboots and you have control of the mouse during the visual installation, it will just sit there at a blue screen with the mouse (which moves very sow and jagged) for about 20 minutes, and THEN will start installing.
During the install, I get an error about a COM+ not being able to be registered. After installation, when it says its “cleaning up temp files,” it will sit THERE for about 40 minutes, then finally reboot.
It restarted, and after the windows xp loading screen, I get a black screen with the arrow (which still moves slow). It will then pretty much hang at the “applying computer settings” screen.
I have three HDDs, tried all three and it always does the same thing. My computer has Serial ATA and SATA RAID on it, but im using 2 IDE drives (but have installed the SATA RAID drivers anyway).
What could be the cause of this system being so slow?
MSI P4M800CE Motherboard with VT8237R Plus Chipset
Pentium 4 2.66 GHz Processor (133×20.0)
512 Corsair Valueselect DDR400 RAM
40GB Seagate Hard Drive (I have an 80 gig also, but dont have it plugged in at the moment.)
Radeon 9800 PRO AGP
Like I said, as of right now, xp IS installed on the HDD, it just takes forever to do ANYTHING.
