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Have you got something running that's eating up resources like antivirus software or something like that?  Or maybe something like Windows Indexing and it's getting confused by multiple OSes.  Have a look at your task manager, you may spot what's slowing things down.

I apologise if I'm teaching my granny to suck eggs, but it's easy to miss the easy stuff if you're looking for a complicated answer.

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also, in windows have a look in event viewer, see if there is some hardware failing, or similarly to Mark's suggestion above, it may show if a process is repeatedly trying to do somehting and failing.

Since you have the problem on all OSs it could be a hardware fault. have you tried reseating all the components? Is it definitely seeing all the memory etc inside it's supposed to have?

Maybe there's a BIOS setting set incorrectly?

skirpy, you need to get over the ;I'm not sure if I'm expecting too much from this thing' ides.  As I've said many times, it's well capable of what you want it to do - and more.  After installing each OS, are you then installing the various chipset and graphics card drivers?  Applying updates?  Run a full chkdsk too.  Does sound more of a hardware  issue if it's all OS's - but checking for a BIOS setting is well worth a look!

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i have a zotac Zbox which is based around very very similar hardware (ion 2 1.6 dual core atom)  the revo should run anything upto win8 without any issues,  in fact, although i still run XP on mine, it actually ran faster on win7 when i tested it,  (i'm guessing due to better integration with the ion chipset) 

on XP,  mines quite slow when running multiple tasks, as it's only using the atom cpu, which on it's own is a bit of a slowpoke compared to higher end cpu's,  but for running video etc, it's great, & easily handles 1080p mkv's etc.

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Thanks for the replies again and sorry for being a pest about this, i have posted about these problems a few times

I think i have it sorted now, i was looking in Bios Mods forum and see that Acer shipped a different bios for Linux, i already flashed the Windows 7 bios though Dos but it looks like it did not complete successfully.

I have just flashed the bios again using a flash tool and it has completed this time, i see now that there are new options in the bios so just done a default and my PC seems to be running a lot better


Cheers.

Obviously its fixed now (touch wood) but if not, and the HDD light is on a lot when it's misbehaving, if the Event Viewer isn't showing anything try launching the Resource Monitor and going to the disk manager tab, leave that open and when it happens alt-tab to it and you should be able to see which tasks are munching your HDD time.


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Obviously its fixed now (touch wood) but if not, and the HDD light is on a lot when it's misbehaving, if the Event Viewer isn't showing anything try launching the Resource Monitor and going to the disk manager tab, leave that open and when it happens alt-tab to it and you should be able to see which tasks are munching your HDD time.Cheers.

I have read that the Western Digital drives in these are not the fastest so maybe try another if it starts playing up again.