computer being a d**k

[Ibiza_Rik]

well got a new 160g HD, so thought id save what i needed on my old one and scrub my machine to start afresh, as im sure I had a keylogger.

Scrubbed everything and now my pc goin kinda sluggish, and whenever I open a window the mouse goes really sluggish.. however its fine when its just scrolling around the desktop.

Also sometimes when I turn my computer on it recognises my slave HDD (my old 40g) and sometimes it doesnt show up?

Anyone know what I can do to fix any of this?
cheers

[Clouds_mate]

have a look in the event viewer for any errors.

Could be a faulty IDE ribbon for the slave. I take it all the drives are set correct on the jumper settings...eg. slave etc.

[Leo]

leckie if you dont get a mod job down is this side of the hood i'll hang my self in general chat

[Ibiza_Rik]

yeah the jumpers are set correctly, and wiring looks fine, not loose or anything? as for this mouse stuttering aswell... driving me mad..
new pc needed me thinks

[MTR]

When you formatted did you install your motherboard drivers? This would affect the speed and the ide channels which control your hard drive.
Also did you use up to date vid card drivers. Those are two potential problems with the symptoms you have said.

[Ibiza_Rik]

i done the MB drivers, not done the vid card yet though, might have to try that, cant remember the model name of my card tho..

[djmartin]

you do know when you install a new hard drive you need to reformat it and defrag it first b4 you put anything on it??????

it maybe still saying the slave one for you have not changed the master and slave around ;) your new HD should be the master and if you still have the 40 in you should have that as the slave partitioned into to halfs 20gigs PC will run faster also turn your indexing off and cookies PC will run faster.

also go to START/RUN in the bar type in msconfig this will bring up a pop up which you can select what processes you want to have on when ur pc turns on turn off ones like QTASK,msn,winamp,realschedule etc etc your PC will load up alot faster for it has not as many processes to load up ;).