jujubeanie21 Posted April 8, 2007 Share Posted April 8, 2007 Ive been installing and running Vista for quite some time. However, the menus during install (booting from cd) are unbelievably slow. I mean, it hurts to think of it. Like when I hit install or enter a cd key, it honestly takes over a minute, maybe even two, to go to the next window. It installs fine and works dandy afterwards, just the setup process is grueling. Just so I dont feel so alone in this, does (or did) anyone ever experience this? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/47803-windows-vista-setup-painfully-slow-between-menus/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
djpc47 Posted April 8, 2007 Share Posted April 8, 2007 Ive been installing and running Vista for quite some time. However, the menus during install (booting from cd) are unbelievably slow. I mean, it hurts to think of it. Like when I hit install or enter a cd key, it honestly takes over a minute, maybe even two, to go to the next window. It installs fine and works dandy afterwards, just the setup process is grueling. Just so I dont feel so alone in this, does (or did) anyone ever experience this? fanboy bate detected...... warning warning..... fanboys detection has be activated, disregard any post reply by track09, robotskip or any other related errors.... jk's;) try find out your computer specs.... and possibly post em.... also I dunno about vista on all computers but I know Windows x64 with its default video drivers is laggy as heck.... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/47803-windows-vista-setup-painfully-slow-between-menus/#findComment-342319 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabr Posted April 8, 2007 Share Posted April 8, 2007 It's probably just a missing driver of some sort. But if it works fine afterwards, there's nothing to be worried about. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/47803-windows-vista-setup-painfully-slow-between-menus/#findComment-342492 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jujubeanie21 Posted April 8, 2007 Author Share Posted April 8, 2007 My system setup is as follows: 3.0Ghz 630 Intel P4 4x512 dual channel DDR 2 SATA drives 1 CDRW/DVDROM drive 1 DVDRW drive 1 Floppy 6800 128mb video card ASUS P5P800-se 1 SB Live sound card Maybe cause im installing 32bit on an 64bit capable processor? Doesn't make sense to me, but I'm just brainstorming. I guess others aren't experiencing this... Oh well, if it works it works right? Thanks for the input guys Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/47803-windows-vista-setup-painfully-slow-between-menus/#findComment-342872 Share on other sites More sharing options...
track09 Posted April 8, 2007 Share Posted April 8, 2007 fanboy bate detected...... warning warning..... fanboys detection has be activated, disregard any post reply by track09, robotskip or any other related errors.... jk's;) try find out your computer specs.... and possibly post em.... also I dunno about vista on all computers but I know Windows x64 with its default video drivers is laggy as heck.... No, you twit, I'm objective, keeping Apple fanboys like YOU in line. I use OS X, Linux and Windows, and gladly accept each OSes good features, and point out where you lie. YOU are the fanboy. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/47803-windows-vista-setup-painfully-slow-between-menus/#findComment-342905 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabr Posted April 8, 2007 Share Posted April 8, 2007 Maybe cause im installing 32bit on an 64bit capable processor? Doesn't make sense to me, but I'm just brainstorming. Hmmm, nah, I don't think that would be it, since I installed Vista (32bit version) on my Core 2 Duo with no problems. It could be a graphics driver. I imagine the installer uses a basic graphics driver, which probably just doesn't get along well with your video card. When you drag the installer window around, is it really (as in, painfully) slow to move? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/47803-windows-vista-setup-painfully-slow-between-menus/#findComment-342907 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jujubeanie21 Posted April 9, 2007 Author Share Posted April 9, 2007 Nope, actually its not, just the response in between the menus... Weird, huh? I passed the CCNA last year as a sophomore and I can't figure this out >_< A bit frustrating... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/47803-windows-vista-setup-painfully-slow-between-menus/#findComment-342968 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ulyanov77 Posted April 9, 2007 Share Posted April 9, 2007 running just about anything from disc is "painfully slow"... the os x install disc was even a bit worse at this than the vista disc, but in the end it all works out... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/47803-windows-vista-setup-painfully-slow-between-menus/#findComment-343016 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vertigo50 Posted April 9, 2007 Share Posted April 9, 2007 It's not the 32-bit vs. 64-bit thing. My install of Vista was quick. It only took about 20 minutes, maybe 30. I didn't have the slowness you're talking about at all. If I had to guess, I would say that your hard drives might be running in IPO mode instead of UDMA. This caused massive slowdowns in my OSX install, and it does the same thing to Windows as well. You might just have to suffer through the install and then enable UDMA once you're in Windows. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/47803-windows-vista-setup-painfully-slow-between-menus/#findComment-343027 Share on other sites More sharing options...
djpc47 Posted April 9, 2007 Share Posted April 9, 2007 No, you twit, I'm objective, keeping Apple fanboys like YOU in line. I use OS X, Linux and Windows, and gladly accept each OSes good features, and point out where you lie. YOU are the fanboy. for you callin me a twit I should slap you with my white glove but I'll not, don't want to dirty it..... for your into I've got Unix,OpenBSD,Linux,AmigaOS 3.9, Windows XP32bit, Windows XP x64, OSX on computers.... and have tried: AmigaOS,OSX,dos,BeOS, OS/2, Linux,OpenBSD,FreeBSD, various flavors of Linux, Windows 1.0, 3.11,95,98,ME,NT,NT 4.0, 2000, XP, Vista,ReactOS, maybe something else I missed:P.... I test software its my hobby no fan of nothing, just fan of some things... I just speak my mind so get it strait.... take a joke, without trying to make someone something they're not:)... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/47803-windows-vista-setup-painfully-slow-between-menus/#findComment-343143 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Universe_JDJ Posted April 9, 2007 Share Posted April 9, 2007 for you callin me a twit I should slap you with my white glove but I'll not, don't want to dirty it..... for your into I've got Unix,OpenBSD,Linux,AmigaOS 3.9, Windows XP32bit, Windows XP x64, OSX on computers.... and have tried: AmigaOS,OSX,dos,BeOS, OS/2, Linux,OpenBSD,FreeBSD, various flavors of Linux, Windows 1.0, 3.11,95,98,ME,NT,NT 4.0, 2000, XP, Vista,ReactOS, maybe something else I missed:P.... I test software its my hobby no fan of nothing, just fan of some things... I just speak my mind so get it strait.... take a joke, without trying to make someone something they're not:)... Maybe we should stick to the OP's problem... Anyway: It does use a basic graphics driver at first, but I only noticed prolonged slowness between menus when installing Vista in a Virtual Machine. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/47803-windows-vista-setup-painfully-slow-between-menus/#findComment-343272 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabr Posted April 9, 2007 Share Posted April 9, 2007 Nope, actually its not, just the response in between the menus... Weird, huh? I passed the CCNA last year as a sophomore and I can't figure this out >_ Then it could be the read speed from your CD/DVD drive. Maybe try a new one and see if the problem is fixed. Edit: Actually, thinking about it, it probably wouldn't be the read speed. Otherwise, it would take you hours to install it too... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/47803-windows-vista-setup-painfully-slow-between-menus/#findComment-343289 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jujubeanie21 Posted April 10, 2007 Author Share Posted April 10, 2007 I checked the UDMA option, all controllers have it enabled. And my drive reads at 16x for DVD, so it wouldnt be that either. It installed faster on my sister's centrino acer latop (before SHE got a mac, despite my endless struggle with osx...). Oh well, I can deal with it. Plus, I'm buying a new flash drive tonight with great read/write speeds (old one broke anyway) so ill try the vista install from the drive that was featured on digg recently. I can deal with it though. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/47803-windows-vista-setup-painfully-slow-between-menus/#findComment-343738 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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