computer running SLOOOOOOOW after installing ubuntu

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:bloated:

so I’m at a loss here. I built a POS machine to use here at work for misc shit like music and such. Nothing special.

it’s a P3 533mhz, 256megs of sdram, 80gb hdd, onboard video, usb sound card, ect.

I was running XP media center on it without any problems (it actually ran great once I installed the second 128 stick). Well, being the tool box that I am, I decided to dual boot Linux Ubuntu on it for the hell of it.

well, the installation got about 92% done and froze forcing me to abort it. Now when I start the machine, it runs slow as shit. It seriously takes approx 10 mins or so to go thru the startup/diagnostic screen (where it says your processor type/bios revision/memory/ect). I tried getting into the BIOS to see if something was up there and even the BIOS is running slow… for example if I hit an arrow to switch menus in the BIOS, it will respond to it about 10 seconds later. :bloated:

I just let it run thru so to start GRUB and big supprise it tells me that it couldn’t load the OS (not all that shocking considering the install didnt complete). I tried setting the BIOS back to it’s default settings and didn’t fix it.

anyone have any ideas? I’ve never run into this before

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ok, strange… I’m trying to reinstall Ubuntu now and it seems to be running fine once it launches the installer. Why would a bad install effect the core BIOS functions of the machine? :wtf:

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You have another hard drive to try?

Try reseating the ram? and cleaning off the contacts with an eraser…

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I think its a corrupt bootloader.

wipe the linux partition using a real partition manager, then merge it back into the ntfs partition.

I’d also wipe the master boot loader at the xp command prompt I think the command is fixmbr or fixboot. That will put the xp bootloader back on there.

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sounds like a bad install to me. And that can effect many things.

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thanks guys… fixing now :tup:

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Maybe the new RAM stick had something to do with it???

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+1 to bad install. Is the liveCD one that had passed the media check?

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If you had some ram problems as far as connects being bad or a bad stick you would see OS halting errors, not slowness. I don’t know much about Linux but I would venture to guess it’s not a hardware problem.

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it seems to be working great now… strange shit

thanks

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So what fixed it? The fixmbr?

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nah… I first tried just re-installing linux and worked like a charm. still able to boot XP aswell (thank god)