Windows Vista EXTREMELY slow

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Okay I know this is a really long explination but please read. thanks

It all started when I was sitting on my desk building my new computer which had a:

PCChips A33G
AMD Athlon64 X2
Two harddrives, 1 sata (O/S) and 1 IDE (storage).
X1650pro PCI-E (I used this before so it's not new, and it worked fine, games and everything)

So after about 30 minutes I was finished and cleaned up everything , then proceeded to head to my room. I then plugged in all the cables, booted up the machine. BIOS recognized everything but at the bottom it said something like: could not find the processor revision, an bios update may solve this (the words werent like that but thats what it meant so dont copy paste to google (i know it said revision though)) press f1 to continue. I didnt really understand anything so I was like whatever, f1. Anyway, I ran memtest86 and everything was fine, then I proceeded to boot into my previously installed windows partition (yay!).

Everything was fine until I got into the login screen and I'd type and it would be soooo slow. I thought okay it's probably just loading stuff so I went ahead and typed my username and long behold! a black screen with my mouse that turns on and off every 5 seconds (??). It's just loading right? wrong. I waited like 20 minutes before rebooting. and then the same thing happened three times.

okay fast forward 2 hours.. I installed ubuntu on my flash drive and I was running everyhting fast & smoothly (on the same computer obviously) so there's nothing wrong with my graphics card or processor or any of that sort. So I thought alright windows probably got corrupt somehow (oh yeah, I forgot to mention, safe mode works for some reason and I tried system restore but it just said "restoring" for a long time or so I rebooted, but it doesn't matter anyway), so I reformatted, then half way through that green (or is it blue?) bar, everything got slow again, except my mouse which is lightning fast (as it should be) it prompted me for my username and stuff and I wrote it (I didn't see the text show up for a long time) and I managed to complete the installation, where I was greeted by another incredibly slow welcome screen. I logged in, slowly, and then not to my surprise, nothing changed! still super slow! right now im in XP on my laptop.

if anyone could come up with ANY ideas why this would happen please say!

thank you!

 

Have you installed graphics drivers? Run Windows Update perhaps? A BIOS update might help as well.

 

test your hard drive?

 

I haven't installed the graphics drivers yet, or updates, but I had them in my old windows which had the same problem. the bios update is probably a good idea though

i ran memtest86 and the check disk - no errors

 

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/243750-33-x1950-a33g-vista-extreme-slowdown

 

I might want to consider a new laptop with faster CPU.

 

I had a similar problem with the Pcchips a33g. But there's an updated BIOS that fixed my problem. The BIOS isn't windows updatable, though. Once I found a dusty old floppy drive and a disk that wasn't old and corrupted and flashed the BIOS with the update from DOS everything worked great. The comp now runs like a dream.

Here's the PCCHIPS bios update link: http://www.pcchips.com.tw/PCCWebSit...ios&DetailDesc=&CategoryID=1&MenuID=6&LanID=0

Hope it helps... (if you even are checking this post anymore