Xp Home slow to startup

[j52c]

Hi.
Wonder if anyone can help out with my problem.

I have just put a new board and chip into my pc.

AsRock 939 Dual with AMD 64 3500.

Full clean install of XP Home.

When the pc is switched on it starts ok and then when the XP screen comes up it is ok for a second or 2 and then the little green dots slow right down and then nothing happens.

I then press the reset button, the pc reboots, this time it goes a little further until the green dots slow down again, they are so slow you can see the dot each dot being drawn as they move to the right, then it stops again.

Hit reset again and this time it seems to go alright until it gets to the desktop, once on the desktop the mouse is jerky and apps slow to load.

Restart pc and usually this time it boots normally and things work fine, although a couple of times yesterday, I started a majohng tiles game and the pc rebooted.

I have a geforce MX 4400 agp video card installed and 1gig of ddr 333 memory.

Any ideas please?

The asrock dual board is this the dual gfx and ram or just dual gfx?
Have you looked on the Asrock site to see if the card is properly supported?
If its got the dual ram run memtest to make sure the systems happy with the ram.
So this machine hasnt been run and no drivers installed or did the slow down come on after a while? Can you get into safe mode and edit the start up ?
Sounds to me like the windows install has gone screwy.Did you download the newest drivers or run the cd?might be worth reinstalling armed with newest drivers.To stop a forced reboot right click my comp select properties then advanced/start up and recovery and untick auto restart. You will get an error message then if it crashes

[j52c]

Originally Posted by zinglebarb

The asrock dual board is this the dual gfx and ram or just dual gfx?
Have you looked on the Asrock site to see if the card is properly supported?
If its got the dual ram run memtest to make sure the systems happy with the ram.
So this machine hasnt been run and no drivers installed or did the slow down come on after a while? Can you get into safe mode and edit the start up ?
Sounds to me like the windows install has gone screwy.Did you download the newest drivers or run the cd?might be worth reinstalling armed with newest drivers.To stop a forced reboot right click my comp select properties then advanced/start up and recovery and untick auto restart. You will get an error message then if it crashes

Hi.

thanks for the prompt response.
It has the pci express and agp slots on.

The only drivers installed are from the cd that came with the board although I didn't install the usb 2.0 driver as XP put the enhanced driver in.

It does support dual ram and I have 2 512 sticks in, i thought this may have been the problem as I think they both have to be an exact match.

The pc ran ok since installing new xp home, kast thursday. and was only switched off for a couple of hours at a time.

We noticed it friday morning when switched on first time in the day.

I have a floppy with memetest on will run that and check the website for graphics card compatability and get back to you if that is ok.

Have only installed a printer.

Thanks again.

Thats fine dude run the tests and let us know. Could still just be a screwy windows install

[j52c]

Hi.

run the memetest and that passed ok.

had a look on website and cannot find anything about whether it supports my graphic card.

However, after I ran the memtest and rebooted at the end, the pc started up ok, went to download a large file and that was ok.

Just a thought, last night, the pc was shutdown but still switched on at the main socket, the wife happened to knock the monitor and she said a message came up on the monitor that it hadn't got a signal. This got me thinking this morning so first thing i did before i switched the mains plug on, was to check the lead from the monitor onto the graphics card, one of the screws was slightly loose so I gave it a turn to tighten it, in the past I have known printer problems when the cable was not tight in the parallel socket, could this be the problem.

Still going to give pc some hard work to see if it behaves.

Thanks again.

did the gfx card push down into its slot? was it loose?

[j52c]

Originally Posted by zinglebarb

did the gfx card push down into its slot? was it loose?

It was the connector that was slightly loose, going to open the case and check this morning.

Switched pc on first thing this morning and it was just fine, as was it all yesterday.

I am going to look a real idiot if it was a loose connection, should have checked that.

Just got to connect my usb card reader today, and if everything is ok looks as cracked it.

Thankyou very much for taking the time to help, sorry if I have wasted any of your time.

Dont be silly