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So I finally managed to re-install XP on one of the HDDs via the USB CD/ROM... can't access anything on that drive other than the new partition, but I wasn't too worried about most of that data. Happily, the other drive shows up, and so far all the stuff I wanted o keep looks OK (whew!).
But there's a problem... even with the performance bumped up in BIOS, it is ssssllloooowww. Really slow.The mobo looks OK: no blown o nearly-blown caps, and it's pretty clean right now. I don't recall ever tweaking voltages, FSB, etc. for the original install, but maybetha's the problem.
Anyone have any suggestions?

I assume you installed all the drivers for this? Windows does not install devices with current drivers.. just generics

Chipset, video, possibly IDE/SATA, NIC, etc

You can go to Asus or where ever the MB is from and in their download section they will have the latest (on their records) for it

I assume you installed all the drivers for this? Windows does not install devices with current drivers.. just generics

Chipset, video, possibly IDE/SATA, NIC, etc

You can go to Asus or where ever the MB is from and in their download section they will have the latest (on their records) for it

Should have mentioned that I already installed the appropriate drivers (as far as I know)... thanks anyway.

Just checkin what I did not see

What mobo is it?

Nforce4 is notoriously slow on SATA when using nvidia drivers in XP... my nforce4 machine takes over a minute to get into an useable state after powerup (with SQL sever and some other devtools effectively killing startup performance)