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12-01-2006, 01:58 AM
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older laptop problem
I am working on an older Dell Latitude CPi A-Series, and when i boot it up, it sits at a completely black screen with no hard drive activity at all for about 2 or 3 minutes then it boots to windows just fine, there are no errors in the event viewer and after the computer boots it acts like nothing is wrong... i only have an antivirus set to load with windows, i checked for viruses/spyware, any ideas what is causing this?
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12-01-2006, 05:44 AM
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Look in the BIOS for a "fast boot" option.
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12-01-2006, 01:58 PM
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yeah the boot options are "minimal, thorough, and automatic" i have it set on minimal, and its set to boot from the HDD only.
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12-06-2006, 07:11 AM
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anyone?
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12-06-2006, 07:27 AM
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Is it part of a network or have an USB devices attached? Both can cause slow boot ups.
Any idea when the problem started? Any changes done ot it prior to it doing this? |
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12-06-2006, 07:27 AM
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What version of Windows is it running?
How much ram is installed? Does it have a floppy drive installed?
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12-06-2006, 08:01 AM
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no floppy, it has xp home, and it has 128mb of ram
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12-06-2006, 08:11 AM
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For XP home I would think you need at least 512 MB of ram. Check the start up in msconfig and see what is loading.
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12-06-2006, 08:50 AM
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Need much more ram for sure....Windows is paging out to the swap file while its booting since it can't find very much ram.
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12-06-2006, 09:04 AM
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msconfig is only loading the antivirus which is nod32, i am putting another 128 stick in to see if it helps to boost it to 256 overall... the computer came with xp on it, and once its booted seems to run fine. Do you think the extra 128 would help this boot issue? it doesnt seem like something it should be doing cause as i said it sits there for at least a minute doing NOTHING no hard drive activity at all.. then once it starts loading its fine..
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12-06-2006, 09:06 AM
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If it were paging out, there would be hard drive activity.
Latest bios is A15, I'd recommend you update. That laptop was not designed for XP. |
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12-06-2006, 10:03 PM
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i have A15 already... and when xp was first installed on this machine it was fine.. this is a problem that started happening about 5 or 6 months ago (not my laptop)
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12-07-2006, 01:27 PM
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Just a thought, did the slow down occur after you installed Norton? That will slow it down big time.
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12-08-2006, 01:58 AM
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naa no norton for me
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