# computer running SLOOOOOOOW after installing ubuntu
**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/computer-running-slooooooow-after-installing-ubuntu/29088
**Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic
**Created:** [May 10, 2007, 12:59pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/computer-running-slooooooow-after-installing-ubuntu/29088 "2007-05-10T12:59:15Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
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### Author:  [@Dr.Stevil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Dr.Stevil)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2007, 12:59pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/computer-running-slooooooow-after-installing-ubuntu/29088/1 "2007-05-10T12:59:15Z")
: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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### Author:  [@Dr.Stevil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Dr.Stevil)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2007, 1:10pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/computer-running-slooooooow-after-installing-ubuntu/29088/2 "2007-05-10T13:10:07Z")
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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### Author:  [@LZ1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LZ1)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2007, 1:40pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/computer-running-slooooooow-after-installing-ubuntu/29088/3 "2007-05-10T13:40:08Z")
You have another hard drive to try?
Try reseating the ram? and cleaning off the contacts with an eraser…
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### Author:  [@JustinH](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JustinH)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2007, 1:46pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/computer-running-slooooooow-after-installing-ubuntu/29088/4 "2007-05-10T13:46:15Z")
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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### Author:  [@boardjnky4](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boardjnky4)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2007, 1:54pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/computer-running-slooooooow-after-installing-ubuntu/29088/5 "2007-05-10T13:54:28Z")
sounds like a bad install to me. And that can effect many things.
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### Author:  [@Dr.Stevil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Dr.Stevil)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2007, 2:03pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/computer-running-slooooooow-after-installing-ubuntu/29088/6 "2007-05-10T14:03:03Z")
thanks guys… fixing now :tup:
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### Author:  [@itsJim](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/itsJim)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2007, 7:06pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/computer-running-slooooooow-after-installing-ubuntu/29088/7 "2007-05-10T19:06:47Z")
Maybe the new RAM stick had something to do with it???
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### Author:  [@traumadog](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/traumadog)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2007, 7:23pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/computer-running-slooooooow-after-installing-ubuntu/29088/8 "2007-05-10T19:23:34Z")
+1 to bad install. Is the liveCD one that had passed the media check?
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### Author:  [@RuBiCaNT](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/RuBiCaNT)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2007, 7:34pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/computer-running-slooooooow-after-installing-ubuntu/29088/9 "2007-05-10T19:34:11Z")
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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### Author:  [@Dr.Stevil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Dr.Stevil)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2007, 9:00pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/computer-running-slooooooow-after-installing-ubuntu/29088/10 "2007-05-10T21:00:27Z")
it seems to be working great now… strange shit
thanks
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### Author:  [@itsJim](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/itsJim)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2007, 7:28am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/computer-running-slooooooow-after-installing-ubuntu/29088/11 "2007-05-11T07:28:10Z")
So what fixed it? The fixmbr?
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### Author:  [@Dr.Stevil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Dr.Stevil)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2007, 7:40am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/computer-running-slooooooow-after-installing-ubuntu/29088/12 "2007-05-11T07:40:22Z")
nah… I first tried just re-installing linux and worked like a charm. still able to boot XP aswell (thank god)