O Wise Sages and Late-Night Forum Trawlers, i'm running windows 7 (build 7000, 32bit) on a MSI x58 pro, i7 920, and 9600GT in a Cooler Master 690 powered by a corsair 750w. i had an install of windows 7 on a partition in the hdd (400gig seagate), it was running perfect, but then i tried to delete my old xp partition using acronis disk director. it said it needed a reboot, so i did reboot, but it wouldn't start, and would stay stuck at a black screen with a flashing prompt. at this point, i tried to install an iDeneb dvd that my friend had lent me, but it was having trouble installing, so i tried to recover the windows install by using the windows 7 install dvd. for some strange reason, it wouldn't detect the old windows 7 partition, so i decided on a fresh install. instead of formatting the current partition and using that, i decided to use the unused space freed up when i deleted the xp partition. but the install seemed to take an inordinate amount of time. eventually, it booted up in 7 and i installed some drivers, etc. then, i tried to install company of heroes : opposing fronts. at which point the system became extremely sluggish, even the cursor getting jerky. i wasn't in the mood to figure it out, so i ended up reinstalling 7, because i thought i needed yo reinstall it anyway so i could enable AHCI. however , again, install took a long time. now it takes ages booting, and gets sluggish when i try to do anything. can someone help? on a completely unrelated note, hows 50-63 degrees centigrade for an i7 920 under varying degrees of load? please help. if it will encourage you to help, i'm a kid who needs help. if you're a pedophile, i'm a kid with a toolset full of large, heavy, blunt objects. sorry if it's a bit too long.
If you've got any data on your system you need to keep, then either stick the hard drive in another computer if available, or use a live linux disc and copy your files etc. to CD/DVD or another hard drive. I would suggest completely wiping/ formating your hard drive, and starting afresh with Windows 7, (or whatever you fancy). I would expect that your Master Boot Record is pretty trashed at the moment, and though it could be sorted out, a full format is the quickest fix for now. I'm no expert on the i7 core, but I would say that the temps are a bit high. But, is it running at stock speed?, is it overclocked? etc. Out of interest, how much memory in this system?
I'd say a full reformat is your answer! And a low of 50 on an i7 920? What CPU cooler? I'm using stock air cooling and it idles around 45
thanks, i did end up doing a reformat. never pinpointed the problem, but i think it was the old ide hard disk i'd stuck into the system, because it speeded up right after i removed it. i'm using the stock cooler. it does idle around 45-50 now. i guess it's probably because room temperature is usually ~40 degrees.
Glad you got it sorted out. I have found that in installing Windows 7 over itself caused me loads of hassle and extreme slowness! It's all about the configuration at the end of the day I suppose as regarding hard drives and where they are in your systems setup. That's one warm room!! Sometimes the best way to learn is to get it wrong and try again. Not so much fun with critical data though!!
