Why so slow?

[Equilibrium]

This is my first rig ive built so im kinda new to all of this. Its a low budget comp as you can see, but it still should be faster than it is. When I boot up it takes about 70seconds or so to load up windows xp. Ive tried re-installing xp and switching HDs. Nothing seems to work. Ive scanned for viruses and spyware but again came up with nothing. I know this isnt exactly a top of the line comp but it should be able to handle playing an mp3 and browsing websites without freezing.

 

Thanks for your help.

[Angry_Games]

CoolerMaster 420watt PSU

 

this could be part of your problem

 

Prescott cpu's and the LGA775 platforms take quite a bit of power

 

I can guarantee you that every LGA775 motherboard is a 24-pin board and needs a good chunk of power (and a quality 24-pin ATX power supply).

 

as for freezing, you need to go into BIOS and Load Optimized Defaults, then set the bios settings how you like other than cpu/memory settings (as loading Load Optimized Defaults will do that for you).

 

make sure your memory is in dual channel mode (see manual that came with the board for that)

[Equilibrium]

I messed around some in the BIOS and it seems to of helped. Ill purchase a better psu and see if that does the trick. Thanks alot

[Bonghjerne]

i also own the LP UT 865PE-T (Not TAG but still), and a 630... And only 512mb mem atm... and my system doesn't take that long to boot ? (:

 

Maybe you're just unlucky...

 

Im not running on a fancy PSU, just a ChillInnovation (Danish Brand) 400w PSU...