slow xp pro

[sup3rcarrx7]

My friend just moved his computer into a new case, and now the bars at the XP splash screen runs across 8 times or so. Before moving my computer, it was only 1 time as i recall. Any help would be really grateful since he's pretty pissed off right now. It slows down the boot time by at least a extra 23 seconds. His main parts in the system are:

Asus a7n8x-x
amd athlon xp 2700
512mb ddr400 crucial
ati radeon 9800xt


EDIT: he did not install anything yet other than just installing ms word but i doubt that would have affected it.

[jmoore2001]

hmm, make sure everything is seated/connected properly? maybe clear the cmos..i dont know.

i would just make sure all IDE's are plugged in firmly and of course as well as memory, PCI's, video card, and motherboard connections

[sup3rcarrx7]

Ok i just told him to make sure everything was tight enough and still the same problem. Any other help please?

[B71655]

Try turning off system restore and drive indexing.

[elmers]

Any new hardware since the move?

[eagle1]

EDIT: he did not install anything yet other than just installing ms word but i doubt that would have affected it.

Hey .. it's a Microsoft package!
It's probably windows trying to load extra startup things installed with MS Office.
He can test that by uninstalling Office to see if it was that!

[elmers]

[Sixpac_XP]

So how long was he running this setup before he moved cases? Did he use the old power supply or a new one in the new case?

[sup3rcarrx7]

He bought an antec trueblue 480 for the old case and is using it in his new case now too.