Okay, so I'm working on this system for a friend of the family.
There were ALOT of things wrong with this... but that's besides the point. Basically, I'm trying to figure out why it's running so slow.
I've completely disassebled everything in the system, cleaned, dusted, reapplied thermal compound to every heat sink, etc... and completely wiped the hard drive to get ready for a clean install of 7.
BUT... when I boot from the installation media (either through DVD or USB), it takes WAY longer than I've ever seen ANY system to even boot into the install screen.
It's an older HP Pavilion a6518f. It's got an Athlon II x2 CPU with 3gb of DDR2 800... I've ran memtest, and the memory is fine, but still, this system is ridiculously slow.
Any suggestions? If anyone needs more info, please... feel free to ask.
I just wanted people to get the basic idea of what I'm dealing with.
Could it be the motherboard somehow?
I thought that maybe he had done some adjustments in the BIOS that he shouldn't have, but I've restored everything back to original default settings... and that didn't help either.
Please help. Thanks
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