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Mon 7 Feb, 2005 10:12 pm
A friend of the family has a problem with her Dell. It's a pretty new model with a 2.7 P4. The computer literally takes like 15 minutes to start up and runs really slow after wards. Takes like 1 minute to open the control panel.. So they called me to come and fix it
first thing i tried.
She bought it used with no software. I have a version of winxp laying around(my computer is broken) and decided to reformatt the HD and reinstall windows. still didn't do anything. windows took like 6 hours to install, and after that the clean version of windows still ran ridiculously slow.
2nd
I installed different ram from my old computer. Still didn't change anything.
3rd
Bought a new hard drive for the computer. Installed windows on it and it still ran slow.
4th
Thought about changing the motherboard and cpu, but the dell case is al proprietary and i can't find anything to fit that case.
does anybody have any other ideas of what might be wrong with the comp. i think it's a faulty MB and CPU. Can anybody help me?
sorry, it's all blue potatoes to me...
Have you tried going into the BIOS setup and resetting everything to the factory defaults? (Someone may have tried to boost things and screwed it up)
Sounds like some sort of hardware conflicts going on. You might try disabling everything that isn't absolutely necessary (or physically removing them if you can) and see what that does for you.
you know I tried looking for a reset in the bios, but I can't find a "restore default settings" anywhere. it's a dell bios so I don't think it has any overclocking settings. I'm going to look again tomorrow to see if maybe there is a jumper to reset the bios. I haven't tried removing the floppy or the cdrom. I did however remove the modem. There isn't anything else to remove after that.
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