Old faithfull booting super slow.

[netbanshee]

I have an old Dell Latitude D610 with ati x300 video. It's been getting slower at loading from bios on. I've already tested/replaced memory, removed all removable hardware and tried to boot to bios with no improvement. I did get it going for a while but it didn't last. I also did a quick cleaning. Any ideas? Should I tear it down? I'd really like to save it.

Thanx in advance.

 

[cbrunnem]

smart defrag. download it and run it. ccleaner download that and run it. do the registry clean too.

 

[netbanshee]

Thanx but your suggestions are only pertinent after the OS is loaded. In this case the OS is not yet loaded. This is not an OS problem.

 

[cbrunnem]

are you saying that the os will not boot? if it does smart defrag will do a boot time defrag if you tell it too meaning is will defrag the os files.

 

[netbanshee]

Wow, talk about continuing to track off course. Do you know the difference between boot and post? Anyway I identified the issue tracing it to an intermittent connection on the motherboard. Old school temp fix will due until I find the tools I need to make a permanent repair. Thanx for all the suggestions.

 

[cbrunnem]

when i cloned my hard drive it went from taking 1:30 min to get to the desktop consistently then defragging and using the registry cleaner brought it down to 35 secs so it does help.

but i dont want to argue.

 

[netbanshee]

Um no, Your way off base. Please read my original post again. I removed all removable hardware which includes all drives. I've identified the issue and your not even close.

 

[Brett928S2]

Hi

CLOSING due to age...

All the best Brett

 

[Brett928S2]

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