Freekin slow mother board.

Hi,
I have a 7aja2e with an Athalon 1.2Ghz processor and 600+megs ram. I
just bought a new Hard drive (Fuji 30gig) and did a format and clean
install of winxp. My performance is SLOW. The pointer skips, I click
on start and 3 seconds later it pops up. I've tweeked all the CMOS
crap, and have the latest bios. Seems to me this happened once before
along time ago, but I have no clue what is wrong. The driver disk
that comes with the board is very hard to use VIA drivers. any
suggestions?