New Build Slow installing and booting windows. Whats up? help

Hi,
Upgraded recent to a new cpu, motherboard, ram and video card.
I've bought windows 7 home prem and both on Vista and 7 it takes a long time to install (1 hour plus) and over 2 and a half minuites to boot.

This is what i have running.

Windows 7 Home Prem 64Bit version
AMD Phenom X4 965 Black Edition 3.4GHz Socket AM3 8MB L3 Cache
4Gigs of Kingston 2gb Ddr3 1600mhz Hyperx Memory Cl9(9-9-9-27)
Gigabyte GA-MA790XT-UD4P 790X Socket AM3 DDR3 8 Channel Audio ATX Motherboard
MSI HD 4890 Cyclone 1GB GDDR5 DVI VGA HDMI Out PCI-E Graphics Card
SATA 250GB HDD
120GB IDE HDD
570Watt Power Supply unit (this has the 4pin power to the motherboard but there is an 8 pin connector socket avail, manual says it support 4,6 and 8 pin power leads

BIOS Setting are set to optimized settings and thats about it at the mo.
The OS sees the correct CPU Speed and Memory

I also have the latest video drivers installed for the ati, falshed the BIOS to the latest, set the DDR3 to 1600 and have the kingstone settings 9-9-9-27 set in the bios.

Any help would be great, Thanks

Which 1 of those 2 hdd is the boot drive? IDE ch in PIO mode maybe?

tried it on both drives. what PIO ?

PIO is a transfer mode that is very slow since it completely monopolizes the cpu.

Great article HERE about DMA reverting to PIO, revolt3k. PIO would definitely slow things to a crawl. So would an underclocked CPU.

A couple of things I noticed here... Your running an IDE hard drive, you have a 570w PSU, and a 4890.

The IDE hard drive... is probably pretty old. It could be failing and causing the system to hang for a while on boot. Unplug it and boot up without it and see if there is any difference.

The 570W powersupply.. the fact the you didn't provide a brand leads me to believe it came with a case, or is off brand cheap model... and the fact that it only has a 4 pin connector leads me to believe it's probably a bit aged as well. It ALSO could be failing.

You're running a fairly high end GPU. Which is more than likely a power hog... combine that with the fact you are running a 4 pin aux power connector on an old off-brand PSU and that card is probably not getting enough power and is causing some slow down.

SO all that being said... My suggestion is to first remove that IDE drive... boot and see your results. If your results are STILL bad move on to the next step.

If you've got a more powerful PSU laying around or a buddy will to help you out, try swapping that in there. If you don't want to or can't spend any money right now... Reseat ALL connections.

Even if it looks like it's plugged in all the way... Yank that sucker out, blow it off and plug it back in! Do the same with your ram, and vid card.

Be sure that if your GPU requires it's own power connection, make sure it is plugged in.

Take out the CPU and check for bent pins. Blow away any dust and reseat the CPU.

Good luck and let us know the results!