Hi,
I just took delivery of a Dell Vostro 1520, spec:
Core 2 Duo T7250
2GB Ram
GeForce 8600M GT 256MB
160GB 5400RPM
It has Vista x86 Business Edition on it but I'm having an issue with boot times and, in general to a lesser extent the overall performance. Upon first boot it took ages which I thought was normal, since after all, it was the first boot - I took off the junk (McAfee, Roxio, etc.) reboot and it seems okay.
On the next boot however it does the loading screen (green progress bar) and then hangs on a black screen with the cursor but nothing else for about 10 minutes before showing the desktop, after a few more reboots though it seems around half of the time it stops on that black screen for ages, and the other it loads straight to the desktop (boot -> desktop in around 50secs), I've searched around and see quite a few people have the same issue but never found a way to fix it.
It also appears to have some performance issues for the first 30-ish minutes after booting (for example, doing basic things like opening the device manager would take 1 min+ at this time), but once it has been on idle for 30 mins it works perfectly/quick, seems very weird. I've run the Diagnostics tool(s) and according to them the hardware is fine (not sure how accurate they are of course), turned off a load of services and start programs, run in safe mode, checked the processor isn't being throttled, turned off speedstep, etc. But no go. Same thing happens.
Any Ideas would be appreciated,
Thanks!
I just took delivery of a Dell Vostro 1520, spec:
Core 2 Duo T7250
2GB Ram
GeForce 8600M GT 256MB
160GB 5400RPM
It has Vista x86 Business Edition on it but I'm having an issue with boot times and, in general to a lesser extent the overall performance. Upon first boot it took ages which I thought was normal, since after all, it was the first boot - I took off the junk (McAfee, Roxio, etc.) reboot and it seems okay.
On the next boot however it does the loading screen (green progress bar) and then hangs on a black screen with the cursor but nothing else for about 10 minutes before showing the desktop, after a few more reboots though it seems around half of the time it stops on that black screen for ages, and the other it loads straight to the desktop (boot -> desktop in around 50secs), I've searched around and see quite a few people have the same issue but never found a way to fix it.
It also appears to have some performance issues for the first 30-ish minutes after booting (for example, doing basic things like opening the device manager would take 1 min+ at this time), but once it has been on idle for 30 mins it works perfectly/quick, seems very weird. I've run the Diagnostics tool(s) and according to them the hardware is fine (not sure how accurate they are of course), turned off a load of services and start programs, run in safe mode, checked the processor isn't being throttled, turned off speedstep, etc. But no go. Same thing happens.
Any Ideas would be appreciated,
Thanks!