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gman314:
Since my previous HDD crashed, I have recently upgraded a few things on my system. I am using the same Asus M2A-VM board with an AMD 64 dual core processor, but I upgraded my RAM from 2gb to 4gb, I upgraded to a Samsung 830 SSD, and I updated from XP Home SP2 to XP Pro SP3. One thing to consider is that my Asus board only supports up to SATA 3.0 gb/sec, while the new SSD supports up to 6.0 gb/sec.
What I am noticing is that my pc (which one ran quickly from my 1tb HDD crashed) is now running very slowly. First of all, the resolution that I previously used (1024x728, 32 bit) looks very unnatural. Also, there is a bit of choppiness/lag whenever I move a window. Also, copying and pasting from a flash drive seemed to take a VERY long time (about 2 hours for 2 gb). Worst of all, when I tried to run an NES Rom on VirtuaNES it was somewhat choppy. Let me also note that I played around with many of the resolution settings to no avail.
What could be causing this slowness? Could it be an incompatibility issue between motherboard and new SSD? Could the XP pro service pack 3 be causing the problem? Could the increase in RAM actually be slowing the system down? Keep in mind that everything ran great before my original HDD crashed. Thanks.

HaRuMaN:
You may need to update your motherboard's BIOS, or the SSD's firmware, or both.

cmoses:
Make sure you have all the correct drivers loaded and there is no conflicts. Check hardware settings in device manager. Make sure that no hardware items have a yellow triangle with an exclamation point in them.

gman314:
There are 5 devices in device manager with a yellow question mark/exclamation point. I think that the problem may be the video controller.

You really don't think the upgrade from xp home sp2 to xp pro sp3 caused a problem? Also, does this mean that we can rule out the SSD as the problem? I wanted to also add that the SSD has a very fast start up time. Wouldn't windows start up slowly if it was the problem?

eds1275:
It sounds to me like you need to update the drivers for the video card. I think windows is using generic drivers just to make it work but they are of course not the optimal choice.

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