So I built my mom a computer, because I'm awesome. It's basically a micro ATX setup for her desk.
Well everything turned on fine, and then I tried installing Windows 7. It installed seemingly fine, but when I tried to enter the product code, it was wrong consistently. No, I promise I did not pirate it. I have a legitimate copy of Windows 7 Ultimate upgrade OEM which I bought from our campus store. Well after like 5 tries, I skipped it. Now, installing Firefox and basic utilities I'm finding it is performing very poorly. Everything runs slowly.
My setup is a 2.7Ghz AMD dual core and 2GB of DDR3 RAM. The RAM should be enough, right? I mean, it feels slowest when using the hard drive, so I wonder if the hard drive may be defective? Any way I can find out what is wrong?
First thing I would try would be swapping out the harddrive for another.
What do you mean you skipped it?
[QUOTE=alphaspida;20584907]What do you mean you skipped it?[/QUOTE]
I also have windows 7 OEM. You can't skip it if I recall.
If you leave it blank, it continues the install and gives you 30 days to activate it before it goes into that ACTIVATE WINDOWS NOW mode.
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[QUOTE=belink;20584885]First thing I would try would be swapping out the harddrive for another.[/QUOTE]
Install the OS fresh on a new drive you mean?
[QUOTE=Nyaos;20592211]If you leave it blank, it continues the install and gives you 30 days to activate it before it goes into that ACTIVATE WINDOWS NOW mode.
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Install the OS fresh on a new drive you mean?[/QUOTE]
Yea to see if its the hardrive pulling the speed down
Update:
Today I tried inserting the mobo DVD. The computer pretty much failed to read it (The DVD drive in my computer looks like a unsupported document file) and the computer like froze. Perhaps my disk drive is the problem? Now everything seems to be fine besides that drive.
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