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07-11-2004, 07:00 PM
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How Long does it take?
How long does it take to load XP Home SP1 on a newly formatted drive?
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07-11-2004, 09:36 PM
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Ride 'em Cowboy
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Oh, about 45 minutes or so.
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07-11-2004, 09:39 PM
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do you know why it has taken over 20 hours to do this on two different hard drives and two different sets of memory sticks? I don't know what is broken to cause this machine to run the CPU ALL the time.....
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07-11-2004, 09:47 PM
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Served with Pride
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Maybe post your system specs and what you did to get to this point. Something is definitely wrong.
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07-11-2004, 10:06 PM
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HP Pavillion xt938 1.2Ghz AMD Athlon 384MB RAM 60GB HD ASUS A7V-VM VIA KL/KM133 VIA S3 Savage Integrated chipset
Blue screen came up one morning after a storm. Tried to reboot and the black and white screen came up indicating that the system was stopped during a reboot and I should choose to boot with several different options. None of them worked..... I finally just started over since there were no backups. I wiped and zero filled hd and installed Windows XP Home Edition with SP1. It took over 24 hours to finish install. When it came up, it was so slow I could not make anything work correctly. I tried to search for answers with tweaking and nothing worked. I then replaced the HD and memory sticks. Tere everthing a part and put it back to gether. I am now re installing Windows and the same time frame is happening. I did notice that when I was done the first time the CPU would run at 100% just to move the mouse and there was very little memory used and very few processes working ie no network.... |
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07-11-2004, 10:23 PM
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Served with Pride
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Take a look at your motherboard and see if any of the capacitors (small brown, barrel shaped parts) look swollen or show any signs of leakage around the top. Also, have you checked your bios to see if the cpu and all the hardware is properly recognized?
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07-11-2004, 10:29 PM
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Did not see any visible issues with the MB. How do I check on the BIOS> I don't know what key to hit to get into the BIOS....
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07-11-2004, 10:44 PM
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Folding For PCMech
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On the HP we have here, the key to hit is [F1], but another commonly used key is the [DELETE] key (not backspace, but delete). Try either of those as your computer boots up.
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