New install is real slow?

[andystar351]

I recently had to re-format and re install xp. All went well and i now have a working computer, however when viewing windows of any kind not just internet pages, both the sliding bar on the right of my screen and especially the scroll wheel on my mouse are painfully slow. I have adjusted all the settings i know how to but it has not improved at all. All the drivers say they are working correctly, but it seems the whole page scrolls down one line at a time as if i was still on dial up.

Any ideas guys?

[BeeCeeBee]

Hi Andy,

 

Can you give us an idea what steps you took to protect your PC from re-acquiring whatever caused the need to re-format in the first place?

 

Did you thouroughly scan all of the files and data that you would have backed up and saved before copying them back onto the hard drive?

Edited November 16, 2008 by BeeCeeBee

[andystar351]

Unknown problem caused c:drive to crash beyond anything the recovery disc could handle. Files and folders backed up on D:drive were scanned using Norton 360 all files and folders were clean.

The progs themselves are fine, running speed is fine, internet testing is giving me a speed of 9.5mb (i pay for 10mb) so thats fine aswell.

I am beginning to think its a video card driver i am missing ant the onboard or default one is not upto scratch, but i havnt got the relative disc to reinstall the specific video driver.

HELP!!

[Tootech]

I think it's the video driver too.

 

If you go to Control Panel, System, then Device Manager, look for Display Adapters, and any yellow ! or ? against them.

 

Do you have a make and model of you PC, or failiing that a motherboard make model?

[andystar351]

Nothing warning me against display adapters, but other adapters is showing 3 of which no drivers have been asigned

1=PCI simple communications controller

2=SM bus controller

3= Video Controller (VGA compatible)

 

the machine itself is A Fujitsu Siemens Scaleo P i believe but not 100% that the graphics card is from Nvidia.

I am running a Pentium D CPU 3.2ghz with 2GB ram.

[andystar351]

Situation resolved, it was the driver for the graphics card, went to Nvidia guessed at what my model might be downloaded most upto date drivers installed them all (one of em gotta be right lol) and bingo, smooth and speedy scrolling has returned.

Thanks for you time

Regards

Andy.

[BeeCeeBee]

Great News Andy,

 

Glad this can be closed as SOLVED!!

Edited November 16, 2008 by BeeCeeBee