Topic: vista

[LC0g]

I was lookin' at it simpler, anom.  If you add a new empty folder to one of them does it appear in all three?

if a put a folder on one of the desktop folders, I can see the test folder on every 3 desktop folders... 

wow that is one weird thing. 

so I will bet stuck with that until I reformat? mmmmmh. maybe give MS support a lil e-mail to tell me what is going on.

[GeNe]

for some reason, despite doing a complete reformat, vista business 32 bit takes over 2 minutes to load up on my computer.   And that was after all driver and windows updates, but before installation of any program...what gives?

[mephisto_kur]

You suck, that's what.

[DAwG]

for some reason, despite doing a complete reformat, vista business 32 bit takes over 2 minutes to load up on my computer.   And that was after all driver and windows updates, but before installation of any program...what gives?

Try updating Vista. And also...Specs?

[anomaly]

maybe your HDD is a slacker? ive seen VHP 32bit boot up in less than 1 min on a 6700 with 2gb and a sata drive. not to mention it was on a PC that probably was less than cared for.

[GeNe]

maybe your HDD is a slacker? ive seen VHP 32bit boot up in less than 1 min on a 6700 with 2gb and a sata drive. not to mention it was on a PC that probably was less than cared for.

I have a 1.5TB, 7200rpm SATA drive (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148337).

Try updating Vista. And also...Specs?

And that was after all driver and windows updates, but before installation of any program...what gives?

Also, E6700, 3GB RAM.

[Smoke]

meph told you what.

[LC0g]

 

oooooooh that was sure a head shot. b!ast!

so no one seems to know how to solve that strange thing. I'll try with MS support

[GeNe]

seriously, all kidding aside...anyone have an idea as to why it takes so long to load up?

[anomaly]

it really sounds like a HDD issue to me... or maybe even a bad sata cable.

does it perform fine after it loads up?

do you have a spare HDD laying around to try installing on your OS on instead?

[GeNe]

it really sounds like a HDD issue to me... or maybe even a bad sata cable.

does it perform fine after it loads up?

do you have a spare HDD laying around to try installing on your OS on instead?

The HD is brand new, as is the SATA cable.  I had similar boot up times with my old HD (250GB, also 7200rpm).  The HD performs fine after start up...although HD-to-HD transfer is about 20MB/sec.

[dj]

Do you have the chipset drivers for your motherboard installed?

Go to device manager->ide/ata atapi controllers.
You should see ATA channel 0, 1 etc.
Right-click on each channel and go to properties, then the advanced tab until you find your HDD.

The "current mode" should be ultra dma.  If it's PIO (or whatever it's called), that's what's causing the slowdown.

[anomaly]

it also might be that your chipset heat sink is not seated right. once you ask it to do a lot it gets too hot and slows it self down to save its self from damage.

[DAwG]

o yeah bad sata drivers could screw you

[GeNe]

I think I have the Ultra-DMA set correctly.  I have the correct chipset installed too.

If the chipset heat sink is seated incorrectly, (1) I don't know where that is and (2) how do I know if it's overheating or not?