Extremely slow strange slowdown in Vista

Vista RC1 x86
PentiumD 805 2.66Ghz
1GB
ATi x1600

When I first installed vista it was fine untill it got to the part when it
says testing your performance. That is where it just got stuck. I let it go
and the bar did not move for a very long time. ALT-F4 Closed the app. Not
sure if that has anything to do with the problem.
Vista ran really really slow. I assumed it was drivers so with about 0.5
frames per second I was able to install the ATi device drivers that I got off
the ati site (Vista drivers). After that it ran great. Wanting to do things
right, I rebooted right away. While it was shutting down everything ran
great. I clicked and dragged on the desktop a few times and the nice blue
selection worked. After the reboot, it went back to crappy performance!!!! I
couldn't understand what was happening! Booting into safe mode worked great
and I went to my device manager and updated my video card drivers to the
Microsoft supplied WDDM drivers. After rebooting out of Safemode, again it
worked fine. I thought all my problems were over, but then again after a
reboot, i'm back in the same situation. Right now whenever I restart my
computer I have to first go into safemod, rollback or update my drivers and
reboot again.
Anyone else having problems like this?

ichthys wrote:
> Vista RC1 x86
> PentiumD 805 2.66Ghz
> 1GB
> ATi x1600
>
> When I first installed vista it was fine untill it got to the part when it
> says testing your performance. That is where it just got stuck. I let it go
> and the bar did not move for a very long time. ALT-F4 Closed the app. Not
> sure if that has anything to do with the problem.
> Vista ran really really slow. I assumed it was drivers so with about 0.5
> frames per second I was able to install the ATi device drivers that I got off
> the ati site (Vista drivers). After that it ran great. Wanting to do things
> right, I rebooted right away. While it was shutting down everything ran
> great. I clicked and dragged on the desktop a few times and the nice blue
> selection worked. After the reboot, it went back to crappy performance!!!! I
> couldn't understand what was happening! Booting into safe mode worked great
> and I went to my device manager and updated my video card drivers to the
> Microsoft supplied WDDM drivers. After rebooting out of Safemode, again it
> worked fine. I thought all my problems were over, but then again after a
> reboot, i'm back in the same situation. Right now whenever I restart my
> computer I have to first go into safemod, rollback or update my drivers and
> reboot again.
> Anyone else having problems like this?

Did you do a clean install first?

--
Dan W.

Computer User

"Dan W." wrote:

> ichthys wrote:
> > Vista RC1 x86
> > PentiumD 805 2.66Ghz
> > 1GB
> > ATi x1600
> >
> > When I first installed vista it was fine untill it got to the part when it
> > says testing your performance. That is where it just got stuck. I let it go
> > and the bar did not move for a very long time. ALT-F4 Closed the app. Not
> > sure if that has anything to do with the problem.
> > Vista ran really really slow. I assumed it was drivers so with about 0.5
> > frames per second I was able to install the ATi device drivers that I got off
> > the ati site (Vista drivers). After that it ran great. Wanting to do things
> > right, I rebooted right away. While it was shutting down everything ran
> > great. I clicked and dragged on the desktop a few times and the nice blue
> > selection worked. After the reboot, it went back to crappy performance!!!! I
> > couldn't understand what was happening! Booting into safe mode worked great
> > and I went to my device manager and updated my video card drivers to the
> > Microsoft supplied WDDM drivers. After rebooting out of Safemode, again it
> > worked fine. I thought all my problems were over, but then again after a
> > reboot, i'm back in the same situation. Right now whenever I restart my
> > computer I have to first go into safemod, rollback or update my drivers and
> > reboot again.
> > Anyone else having problems like this?
>
> Did you do a clean install first?
>
> --
> Dan W.
>
> Computer User
>

Hmm how clean do you mean? It was not an upgrade install if thats what you
mean. My primary OS is XP so I installed Vista to a seperate partition.