[SOLVED] extreamly slow presario

saxon234 · 02-16-2008, 09:49 PM

hi.
i have a presario c500 laptop with vista premium. dual core intel. 1 gig ram. intel video with 224 meg of shared ram( 32 to 224, highest ive seen it use is 65 meg) 80 gig hdd.
my problem is it is very slow. 8 to 10 minutes to boot. 5 minutes to open any folder, ect... now before you go right to virus.... i put in a new hdd loaded vista on it. which took HOURS. and the laptop was the same..ok next i took the ram from my wifes laptop and swaped it with mine. her computer worked normally and mine was still the same. dxdiag shows the correct spped of cpu and shows 2 cpu`s as it should. windows system info shows all is well also. so i have ruled out viruses, spy/malware, ram and hdd. i am fairly certain the cpu is at least functioning. so what else is there?

im left with bios settings?(which i know have not changed) or some motherbaord problem. any ideas would be helpfull.

thank you

saxon234 · 02-17-2008, 10:46 AM

i have given up on this problem, admitted defeat and have an rma for warranty return. if i find out what the problem is i will post it.

shamed, beaten by a lowly hardware problem........

saxon234 · 02-21-2008, 05:53 PM

i am the only person using this laptop. so i know for a fact the bios settings havent been changed. that being said. after i sent off for a warranty box.

i decided to try and reset the bios. after i reset to factory defaults it booted and runs perfectly. go figure..

02-16-2008, 09:49 PM	#1 (permalink)
saxon234 Registered User Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: earth Posts: 4 OS: vista	[SOLVED] extreamly slow presario hi. i have a presario c500 laptop with vista premium. dual core intel. 1 gig ram. intel video with 224 meg of shared ram( 32 to 224, highest ive seen it use is 65 meg) 80 gig hdd. my problem is it is very slow. 8 to 10 minutes to boot. 5 minutes to open any folder, ect... now before you go right to virus.... i put in a new hdd loaded vista on it. which took HOURS. and the laptop was the same..ok next i took the ram from my wifes laptop and swaped it with mine. her computer worked normally and mine was still the same. dxdiag shows the correct spped of cpu and shows 2 cpu`s as it should. windows system info shows all is well also. so i have ruled out viruses, spy/malware, ram and hdd. i am fairly certain the cpu is at least functioning. so what else is there? im left with bios settings?(which i know have not changed) or some motherbaord problem. any ideas would be helpfull. thank you Last edited by saxon234; 02-16-2008 at 09:50 PM.

02-17-2008, 10:46 AM	#2 (permalink)
saxon234 Registered User Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: earth Posts: 4 OS: vista	Re: extreamly slow presario i have given up on this problem, admitted defeat and have an rma for warranty return. if i find out what the problem is i will post it. shamed, beaten by a lowly hardware problem........

02-21-2008, 05:53 PM	#3 (permalink)
saxon234 Registered User Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: earth Posts: 4 OS: vista	Re: [SOLVED] extreamly slow presario i am the only person using this laptop. so i know for a fact the bios settings havent been changed. that being said. after i sent off for a warranty box. i decided to try and reset the bios. after i reset to factory defaults it booted and runs perfectly. go figure.. __________________ What color does a Smurf turn when you choke it?