blade995 Posted March 15, 2006 Share Posted March 15, 2006 I bought a new processor and motherboard and installed them. I reformated windows and now it will barley booting. It is running the slowest possible. I went into the task maniger and it said the CPU was running at 100% all the time. It was running the slowest I have ever seen. It was too slow to even boot a cd for drivers to install. Specs: opteron 144 (new) socket 939 epox EP-9NDA3J motherboard 1gb ram windows xp home I'm currently booting from a knoppix (linux) live cd which is running fine. I can download drivers if I need to from this linux distro using firefox. Someone would have to guide me if I have to do anything serious on linux though. I don't know what I should do. I was thinking maybe the bios didn't support this processor yet? Then I would just have to flash it. The thing is I don't think you can get a start-up disk from linux. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anesthesia Posted March 15, 2006 Share Posted March 15, 2006 If it was the BIOS then surely it would affect the livecd too? Have you tried reinstalling windows to see if it is a problem with that specific install? Some people are changed by being a moderator. I wouldn't be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blade995 Posted March 16, 2006 Author Share Posted March 16, 2006 I have tried re-installing twice. Once with x64 windows trial and one other time with xp home. Both doing the same slowness thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mementh Posted March 16, 2006 Share Posted March 16, 2006 ok.. have you gotten the latest drivers for the motherboard? made sure all the jumpers are set right? (or bios settings) other then that it could be a HEAT ISSUE!!!!!!! knoppix might be good enough to run slow.. but it makes sense some cpu's slow themselves when they get too hot (to prevent burnups) make sure your cpu has a heatsink and is making good contact (did you use the gel that is supposed to conduct to the heatsink The following statement is true. The previous statement is false. 60% of all statistics are made up 90% of the time andrew i love you & want you to have my babys!!! Finally, I get to save the Earth with deadly lasers instead of deadly slide shows! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mercifull Posted March 16, 2006 Share Posted March 16, 2006 If it were me id check all my drivers before resorting to any rash decisions. Mercifull <3 Suzi "We don't want players to be able to buy their way to success in RuneScape. If we let players start doing this, it devalues RuneScape for others. We feel your status in real-life shouldn't affect your ability to be successful in RuneScape" Jagex 01/04/01 - 02/03/12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mementh Posted March 16, 2006 Share Posted March 16, 2006 If it were me id check all my drivers before resorting to any rash decisions. true.... first drivers.. then if thats not it.. check the cpu connection? The following statement is true. The previous statement is false. 60% of all statistics are made up 90% of the time andrew i love you & want you to have my babys!!! Finally, I get to save the Earth with deadly lasers instead of deadly slide shows! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blade995 Posted March 16, 2006 Author Share Posted March 16, 2006 The heatsink is installed properly. In the bios it says its running at 35© degrees. I can't even install any of the drivers. This is after a clean system restore. It is going so slow that it will not load a cd to get the drivers. Now it wont get past the Windows is loading screen. I was thinking maybe I needed a patch for windows to support 64bit CPUs? Then I tried using the 64 bit Windows and it's still the same thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mementh Posted March 17, 2006 Share Posted March 17, 2006 The heatsink is installed properly. In the bios it says its running at 35© degrees. I can't even install any of the drivers. This is after a clean system restore. It is going so slow that it will not load a cd to get the drivers. Now it wont get past the Windows is loading screen. I was thinking maybe I needed a patch for windows to support 64bit CPUs? Then I tried using the 64 bit Windows and it's still the same thing. sigh man.. you might have a bad mobo or something.. have you tried getting it exchanged? (this is why i will NEVER buy any computer parts from a online store that i can't go to in real life) The following statement is true. The previous statement is false. 60% of all statistics are made up 90% of the time andrew i love you & want you to have my babys!!! Finally, I get to save the Earth with deadly lasers instead of deadly slide shows! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
battletrax Posted March 17, 2006 Share Posted March 17, 2006 I was thinking maybe I needed a patch for windows to support 64bit CPUs? Then I tried using the 64 bit Windows and it's still the same thing. All 32 bit and 64 bit versions of windows will run fine on all 64 bit cpus, so that's not a problem. My thought is that, since knoppix runs fine, the problem lies with a hardware component that knoppix doesn't use but windows uses. The only component that satisfies this is your harddrive (unless I'm forgetting something). Try swapping out your harddrive for a spare or testing it on another system. (this is why i will NEVER buy any computer parts from a online store that i can't go to in real life) I've bought 3 complete computers part by part online in my life and I've never had any problems. The only time I ever got a bad component, I returned it with less hassle then most of the crap I've returned to best buy. Online stores'll save you a ton of cash and generally have better customer support and return policies than many of the major stores. (Granted I only by from reputable online stores like newegg, zipzoomfly, monarch, etc) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blade995 Posted March 19, 2006 Author Share Posted March 19, 2006 (this is why i will NEVER buy any computer parts from a online store that i can't go to in real life) I've bought 3 complete computers part by part online in my life and I've never had any problems. The only time I ever got a bad component, I returned it with less hassle then most of the crap I've returned to best buy. Online stores'll save you a ton of cash and generally have better customer support and return policies than many of the major stores. (Granted I only by from reputable online stores like newegg, zipzoomfly, monarch, etc Exaclty why I buy online. The same comparable processor (3200+) was like $250 at Comusa. I think it might be the hard drive too. I will try on another computer and see. This hard drive is pretty old. If it's gone be a nice posibility to upgrade to a SATA2 hard drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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