View Full Version : CRAWLING Vista Install - Random pauses/SLOW
Hey guys, first computer build in some time. First I'll start off with the components:
GIGABYTE GA-G33M-DS2R (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813128053)
Western Digital Raptor WD1500ADFD 150GB (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822136012)
EVGA 640-P2-N825-AR GeForce 8800GTS 640MB (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814130080)
Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819115029)
SILVERSTONE NT06-LITE (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16835220019)
SAMSUNG 18X DVD±R DVD Burner SATA (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16827151141)
CORSAIR CMPSU-620HX 620W PSU (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817139002)
Scythe Minebea NMB Silent IC Series 120mm Fan x 2 (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16835185029)
SILVERSTONE SG03-B MicroATX Case (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16811163085)
mushkin 4GB(2 x 2GB) DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820146691)
Now, the problem is when I try to install Vista x64 the install is incredibly slow. Considering the components, I would think the install would go faster than my old Pent 4, which seems to run circles around this thing. After the install is finished though, the system runs very decent, Minimum Rating was 5.5 (CPU) the rest were around 5.9 if I remember right. I was expecting a relatively fast install but it just crawls, so there *has* to be something wrong, but I'm not sure what it is. I haven't toggled with any voltages or overclocking options per my lack of experience, I don't want to screw anything up, but it seems as though its already screwed up. I also tried an old IDE Drive from an older computer that had no problems and still the speed was horrible, so its not the SATA drive or the fact that its SATA. What else could it be? I have no idea what to do at this point and I need to get this up to speed before I head off to the dorms in a couple weeks. Any help!? Please!
Thanks
togaman5000
08-18-2007, 03:01 PM
Wait, so you're saying the install took a long time, but it still completed successfully?
It seems to me that's not a problem, sometimes installs just take a long time. As long as the computer isn't acting up, there shouldn't be a need to worry. Getting a 5.5 on a working install isn't a cause for alarm! :p:
toga, thanks for the reply. That's what's driving me crazy. There's no way in the world I can believe that taking about 1 hour to install Vista x64 is normal, considering that my two older computers (Prebuilt Dell & Gateway, Pentium 4 3.0 GHz and Pentium D 820 respectively.) These computers are years old and easily do the same install in at least half the time as this two day old rig? I reformat often enough that this would become very annoying, very fast. I'm desperate!
Adam217
08-18-2007, 03:27 PM
Do you have a floppy drive? If not you need to make sure it is disabled in bios or it will slow the install down a lot. Learned that one the hard way a few times.
The Viper
08-18-2007, 04:30 PM
haha this just happened to me 2days ago, in fact I was ready to restart my computer thinking something was wrong, or it froze. But it did finnally show signs of installing...total install time prob 40min
Adam you may have been right! I thought I disabled the Floppy straight off but I apparently didn't. I'll probably do a reformat on Monday so I'll definitely see if that was it! Hopefully it was, what a simple thing if that's what it turns out to be. It's not fun is it Viper? ha Thanks for the help guys, I'll let you all know if that's what it was.
togaman5000
08-18-2007, 06:02 PM
I think disabling the floppy may help. I've never tried it myself, but I see absolutely no reason why it would hurt.
When I installed XP Home on my current build, which is a pretty decent mid-range setup, it took 40 minutes to complete the install, so I don't think its an issue that is caused by something negative, its most likely some setting that slows it up :shrug:
chunkylover77
08-18-2007, 06:06 PM
I had the same problem just about a week ago. Turned out to be Vista didn't like my dvd drive. Took me about 8 hours until I finally got a good install.
Tulatin
08-18-2007, 06:55 PM
Yeah, same for me. The install takes maybe two hours? Which is really unfortunate, considering i like my LITE-ON SATA burner. The other problem is that half the time / unless the DVD drive is on a "Master" sata channel, the installer tries to tell me that it can't find a DVD drive (you're installing from it, wtf installer?)
Well, disabling the floppy did help a ton with the initial delays I was having. I went pretty quickly to the Copying, Installing, etc screen. Total install took like 30 minutes. Much better than before. I haven't had any other problems so far, knock on wood, since its my first build in years. This is great! (Went from 17" 4:3 to 24" 16:10) The only thing I'm not liking right now is the noise this Raptor makes. It reminds me of HD drives from 10 years ago, how noisy they were. Still debating replacing it for something else... not sure what would be a good replacement though. From your comments, I can't believe all these little problems, we always make fun of Dell but it actually had less problems. Now I just have to explore the whole overclocking deal. Right now both cores are running about 25 degrees C Idle, think it would be possible to squeeze a bit more out of the processor?
Also, in the Gigabyte EastTune utility, its showing my RAM at 1.9 v. In the specs it's listed as running at 2.0 v. Should I boost this up? Or leave it?
The Ripe Punani
08-18-2007, 09:41 PM
I don't know about the 64-bit version, but the 32-bit version installed fairly quickly with the system in my signature. I might note that it was probably faster than my XP Pro install.
beelzibub
08-20-2007, 12:35 PM
I tried all weekend to get Vista Home Premium x64 to install to a Raptor 150gb drive and finally gave up. It kept erroring out at the Expanding Files section of install at random percentages. I tried everything I could think of....loading drivers from the Abit IP35 Pro disk for SATA/RAID, a different dvd drive, and even tried Vista HP x34 but it kept erroring out! Finally I just tried installing it to my other drive (a 500gb Samsung) and it installed without any issues! Anyone have a solution to this? I bought the Raptor for the OS and applications and the Samsung for storage, so I'd like to use them that way. I've heard of some people having to boot with Legacy drivers or something, but that was on nF4 boards! Please help!!!
[XC] Duc
08-21-2007, 10:09 AM
I tried all weekend to get Vista Home Premium x64 to install to a Raptor 150gb drive and finally gave up. It kept erroring out at the Expanding Files section of install at random percentages. I tried everything I could think of....loading drivers from the Abit IP35 Pro disk for SATA/RAID, a different dvd drive, and even tried Vista HP x34 but it kept erroring out! Finally I just tried installing it to my other drive (a 500gb Samsung) and it installed without any issues! Anyone have a solution to this? I bought the Raptor for the OS and applications and the Samsung for storage, so I'd like to use them that way. I've heard of some people having to boot with Legacy drivers or something, but that was on nF4 boards! Please help!!!
Abit P35 boards seem to be incompatible with Raptor disks... had the same problem with two Raptor 74's, replaced them with normal SataII disks and problems are gone...and there's another member on XS (http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=151251) who couldn't get a Raptor 150 to work on the board.:down:
It's clearly the board itself, cause when you run the WD checking tool on the disks, it reports a defective Sata cable... unable to acces disks. Same Sata cable checks out fine with normal disks (I tried about six or seven different ones, cables are ok), disks check out ok on another board, connect them to the Abit and they fail.:shakes:
icon57
08-26-2007, 04:51 PM
ultimate 64 loaded on my rig in 30 mis or less, it was a fresh install.
Bigchrome
08-26-2007, 05:16 PM
You can get it to crawl? WOW!! Mine just helplessly sits there!
zanzabar
08-26-2007, 05:31 PM
it has to configure a bunch of dll files and other stuff but it dosnt have any activity bars so u cant see it, thats why it will crawl since u cant tell if its doing something u cant gage if its takeing to long or if its frozen
and microsoft in thier great knowledge incorporated the default power profile so it can turn devices and drives off but most it cant turn back on like a raid array or the dvd drive in most computers
rogard
08-28-2007, 12:31 PM
if it hasnt already been mentioned try enabling ahci mode in the bios
icon57
08-28-2007, 01:06 PM
Well, disabling the floppy did help a ton with the initial delays I was having. I went pretty quickly to the Copying, Installing, etc screen. Total install took like 30 minutes. Much better than before. I haven't had any other problems so far, knock on wood, since its my first build in years. This is great! (Went from 17" 4:3 to 24" 16:10) The only thing I'm not liking right now is the noise this Raptor makes. It reminds me of HD drives from 10 years ago, how noisy they were. Still debating replacing it for something else... not sure what would be a good replacement though. From your comments, I can't believe all these little problems, we always make fun of Dell but it actually had less problems. Now I just have to explore the whole overclocking deal. Right now both cores are running about 25 degrees C Idle, think it would be possible to squeeze a bit more out of the processor?
Also, in the Gigabyte EastTune utility, its showing my RAM at 1.9 v. In the specs it's listed as running at 2.0 v. Should I boost this up? Or leave it?
if your ram is not giving you probs at 1.9v, i would leave it there.