New Vista installation performing very slow

First some basic specs of my PC. It's an AMD X2 6000+, 2 gigs of RAM, Asus
M2A-MVP AM2 motherboard, Samsung Spinpoint 400GB SATA2 hard drive, and an ATI
HD3870 video card. The Vista upgrade advisor did not find any problems with
the hardware components

I installed Vista Home Premium on this, and the installation went through
without any problems. However, after installation starting from the first
time booting up, the system is extremely slow. It takes several minutes to
get to the logon screen, and then several more minutes to get to the desktop.
Trying to start any program would always take several minutes.

I thought it would be some driver issue, but looking at the manufacturers'
technical support site, I have not seen anything resembling my problem. Also,
I would love to install the newest drivers except it always take like 15
minutes for the driver installation to begin after I start the driver
install, and then I gave up after half an hour waiting for it to go forward.

So, I'm not sure where is the problem since this is a new clean install, and
I haven't installed any potentially problematic programs on it. Hopefully you
can point me to the right direction troubleshooting this.

Have you checked your CPU utilization to see if there are any processes
hogging your CPU?
"vdangtran" <vdangtran@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:74BF8408-9E94-466B-8052-94EA81583D8D@microsoft.com...
> First some basic specs of my PC. It's an AMD X2 6000+, 2 gigs of RAM, Asus
> M2A-MVP AM2 motherboard, Samsung Spinpoint 400GB SATA2 hard drive, and an
> ATI
> HD3870 video card. The Vista upgrade advisor did not find any problems
> with
> the hardware components
>
> I installed Vista Home Premium on this, and the installation went through
> without any problems. However, after installation starting from the first
> time booting up, the system is extremely slow. It takes several minutes to
> get to the logon screen, and then several more minutes to get to the
> desktop.
> Trying to start any program would always take several minutes.
>
> I thought it would be some driver issue, but looking at the manufacturers'
> technical support site, I have not seen anything resembling my problem.
> Also,
> I would love to install the newest drivers except it always take like 15
> minutes for the driver installation to begin after I start the driver
> install, and then I gave up after half an hour waiting for it to go
> forward.
>
> So, I'm not sure where is the problem since this is a new clean install,
> and
> I haven't installed any potentially problematic programs on it. Hopefully
> you
> can point me to the right direction troubleshooting this.
>

"vdangtran" <vdangtran@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:74BF8408-9E94-466B-8052-94EA81583D8D@microsoft.com...
> First some basic specs of my PC. It's an AMD X2 6000+, 2 gigs of RAM, Asus
> M2A-MVP AM2 motherboard, Samsung Spinpoint 400GB SATA2 hard drive, and an
> ATI
> HD3870 video card. The Vista upgrade advisor did not find any problems
> with
> the hardware components
>
> I installed Vista Home Premium on this, and the installation went through
> without any problems. However, after installation starting from the first
> time booting up, the system is extremely slow. It takes several minutes to
> get to the logon screen, and then several more minutes to get to the
> desktop.
> Trying to start any program would always take several minutes.
>
> I thought it would be some driver issue, but looking at the manufacturers'
> technical support site, I have not seen anything resembling my problem.
> Also,
> I would love to install the newest drivers except it always take like 15
> minutes for the driver installation to begin after I start the driver
> install, and then I gave up after half an hour waiting for it to go
> forward.
>
> So, I'm not sure where is the problem since this is a new clean install,
> and
> I haven't installed any potentially problematic programs on it. Hopefully
> you
> can point me to the right direction troubleshooting this.

Did you install the chipset drivers before doing anything else? Get those
drivers for your processor from the AMD website. If you can't connect to
the internet, you will need to find the CD's that came with the motherboard
and processor to install those drivers.

"Kevin" wrote:

>
>
> "vdangtran" <vdangtran@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:74BF8408-9E94-466B-8052-94EA81583D8D@microsoft.com...
> > First some basic specs of my PC. It's an AMD X2 6000+, 2 gigs of RAM, Asus
> > M2A-MVP AM2 motherboard, Samsung Spinpoint 400GB SATA2 hard drive, and an
> > ATI
> > HD3870 video card. The Vista upgrade advisor did not find any problems
> > with
> > the hardware components
> >
> > I installed Vista Home Premium on this, and the installation went through
> > without any problems. However, after installation starting from the first
> > time booting up, the system is extremely slow. It takes several minutes to
> > get to the logon screen, and then several more minutes to get to the
> > desktop.
> > Trying to start any program would always take several minutes.
> >
> > I thought it would be some driver issue, but looking at the manufacturers'
> > technical support site, I have not seen anything resembling my problem.
> > Also,
> > I would love to install the newest drivers except it always take like 15
> > minutes for the driver installation to begin after I start the driver
> > install, and then I gave up after half an hour waiting for it to go
> > forward.
> >
> > So, I'm not sure where is the problem since this is a new clean install,
> > and
> > I haven't installed any potentially problematic programs on it. Hopefully
> > you
> > can point me to the right direction troubleshooting this.
>
> Did you install the chipset drivers before doing anything else? Get those
> drivers for your processor from the AMD website. If you can't connect to
> the internet, you will need to find the CD's that came with the motherboard
> and processor to install those drivers.
>
I got it to work. Thanks! Turns out I needed to update my BIOS.