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elektrobank
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October 24th, 2005 23:00
9100 SLOW!!
I just got a 9100 to replace my 400SC, not because I really needed it but because Dell was having one of their crazy sales and I wanted the 24" monitor, which I got pratically for free and thought I might as well use the 9100 and sell my old PC. Didn't expect a huge performance increase but I didn't expect it to run slower. The performance on this thing is horrible. It's basically acting as if it doesn't have enough memory. When I switch between applications it just sits there and the hard drive just cranks away, and it's really loud, as if it's dumping application memory to disk when I switch between open apps. I keep checking and I do have enough memory. I know windows uses virtual memory even if it doesn't need it so I'm wondering if it's the speed of the hard drive that's causing the overall slow performance. I tested the speed with a disk utility and had very poor speed, coming up with a rating of "Slow" on about half the tests. If I get more memory can I turn off virtual memory to speed up application switching or is it because my drive is slow?
What should I do about this? Why is the drive they gave me so slow and loud? For those of you who have this machine, how is your performance? My fan is also very loud but that's not a big concern at this point.
What should I do about this? Why is the drive they gave me so slow and loud? For those of you who have this machine, how is your performance? My fan is also very loud but that's not a big concern at this point.
1GB should be enough. I had 1GB for several months and it worked fine. It's possible the drive is having some issues, but with 1GB, I can't imagine you are swapping that much unless you have a bunch of apps all running at the same time.
I did a clean install of Win XP and have had no speed issues. My Western Digital 250GB drive is very quiet. I've heard some of the other drives they install are much louder. As I mentioned, the loudest fan I have is from the 6800.
elektrobank
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Posted October 25th, 2005 16:00
I have 1GB of ram and it's the 2.8 dual core with the 6800 video card.- To get my brand new 9300 laptop to work I did the following.
START from SCRATCH. Use the DELL PC restore so laptop was rolled back to the exact factory settigns I had when I bought the laptop.
DO NOT accept any prompts for loading Norton. Alwaya cancel.
Set Windows XP fire wall on.
Down load and install all latest updates for Windows XP media center.
Reboot.
Use COntrol panel to add/remove all unwated programs excluding any Norton or Symantec programs.
Reboot.
Use control panel to add/remove all Norton adn Symantec Porgrams.
Reboot
Use Norton SymNRT Program D/l'd from teh Norton Weeb site - ignore Nortons web site advice that you do not need to run this tool if you have no problems removing Norton/Symantec programs using Control Panel. I ran SymNRT tool adn it did remove soem things.
Reboot
D/l and install LATEST EZ or alternative anti virus/fire wall s/w. (My older vserion purchased 6 months ago gave the BSOD on rebooting).
Reboot
Phew!
Is there any performance gain by totally reinstalling windows XP from scratch - i.e. do not start with DELL factory settings/image? I still have almost 44 processes runnng when I check unsing Task Manager. I wonderign if this is a lot and if tehre are still any hodden programs running on my system. - i asked the same q as electrobank about my new d9100 over the weekend. stopped the hardrive grinding by disabling Norton go back. received advice--to avoid the disc fragmentation utilities while Go Back is enabled. must disable beffore defragment, or your system will slow to a crawl. im still reevaluating the whole Norton thing. fb, kcmo and why this 2.8ghz 1000 gb memory machine has somee trouble handling it. fb,kcmo
boggsie
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Posted October 25th, 2005 01:00