GFK,
What happens when you use safe graphics mode, (or install a generic vga driver?) - At least this will tell you if its driver/gpu related or if something something else is killing performance.
When it slows down, is there constant light-locked-on disk activity or any processes chewing CPU cycles, if so what are the names?
Also, did you fully delete, create new and reformat the partition to ntfs (not quick format) as i read that vista and Xp use different versions and vistas can screw up XP royally.
Hope it helps, sounds like a pain in the butt :(
What happens when you use safe graphics mode, (or install a generic vga driver?) - At least this will tell you if its driver/gpu related or if something something else is killing performance.
When it slows down, is there constant light-locked-on disk activity or any processes chewing CPU cycles, if so what are the names?
Also, did you fully delete, create new and reformat the partition to ntfs (not quick format) as i read that vista and Xp use different versions and vistas can screw up XP royally.
Hope it helps, sounds like a pain in the butt :(