excedingly long boot time??? not HDD
Please help me, My new computer has been playing up for a long time now, it literally takes about 5 minutes to start up during the windows boot screen, It is a pen 4 3.2 hgtz with 1024 ram , components include dvd burner(dual layer) floppy (for the look!!!) I hard drive ( 200 gig W.D.) 256mb radeon graphics card plus 2x multi coloured fans that is all.
i have now gone and tried a brand new 80 gig hdd in it to see if it would be any different hopeing for an easy fix but it took the same amount of time to start up, i did put uv sleeving on the wiring removing all pins in the molex plugs and replacing them all in the correct order I also added the multi coloured fans onto a couple unused molex connectors
the hdd and dvd burner are on different power rails? ( circuits?) it has a cheap brand ( i have been told so any way) of psu, it states it is a 550W
my questions are:
1: could i have possibly put one set of wires incorrectly and caused a slow down or would that cause a melt down instead
2: would putting the fans o have caused this?
3: if neither of these could be the cause then what possibly could be,
this is really upsetting as i should be able to enjoy a nice fast computer but i have also noticed there is a slowness about it's running as well as starting up.
I really would appreciate any help, Thanks.:rant: :rant: