I deleted the old partition, then created a new one. once I tried installing the operating system on that partition, it says it needs to be formatted.

does formatting normally take this long?? I never remembered it taking more than 8 hours.

Recently my brother got a hold of my new PC that I built. It started running incredibly slow so I did an adware check with AVG and came up with 198 infections. No suprise, seeing as my brother is an idiot. So right in the middle of the scan, my computer suddenly locks up. I restart it, and i get an error in DOS saying windows is missing a file. Great. So i pull out the Windows XP OEM version I purchased with the computer and start doing a system restore. It tells me I need to install it on a partion, so I create one. THen it tells me it needs to be formated so I start formatting it. I leave it for 8 hours, and it's only at 27%

Im clueless. Do i just leave it running? Or is there a quicker way of going about this?

I havent tried OCing yet. Im still doing some reading on it

My videocard is being OCed through Catalyst

As for my RAM, they're set in the first two slots. Now, I know Duel channel is normally slots one and three, or 2 and four. But I read the motherboard's manual and it indicated that the first two slots are duel channel, as are the last two.

Just built my new gaming rig and was wondering if the CPU-z specs look alright? Take a gander and gimme some insight if you're bored and wanna help me out.

CPU AMD Athlon X2 Brisbane 2.6GHZ Black Edition

Cache

Mainboard

Memory Corsair 2GB PC2 6400

SPD

GPU Radeon HD3850 256MB

Sure, it will go on your motherboard.

Be aware to buy PCI-E x1950pro. Don't mess things up buying the agp version ;)

Shegevara

LOL thats actually one of the few things i do know about computers

it's like putting a round peg in a square hole