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    Slow thumbnails loading time

    Discussion in 'ASUS Gaming Notebook Forum' started by jasonnam, Sep 21, 2010.

  1. jasonnam

    jasonnam Notebook Geek

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    Ok, i got this problem from a very first day and i can't find a complete fix for it.

    Whenever I open a folder cotains many sub-folders that have some images in, my g73 takes like a minute to load all of them. that's just annoying, my 3 years old dell can do better

    Everytime i go to device manager and unistall the driver of the HDD, then restart, the problem disappear, thumbnails load really fast but the problem comes back after couple of boots.

    i got 7200 seagate drive, all cores are unparked.

    anyone got the same problem?
     
    jasonnam, Sep 21, 2010
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  2. Travelor

    Travelor Notebook Consultant

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    Hello,
    Just ran through a whole series of tests and I was not able to duplicate your situation - I have a 500GB 7200RPM HDD and a secondary 500GB 5400RMP HDD and I tested folders/pictures on both HDDs and thumbnails/folders/icons were displayed quickly - I am also running Zune Software (Audio/Video Player) and a couple other applications at the same time, and I noticed no issues.

    When you say you "uninstall" the HDD driver, are you uninstalling the IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers driver? It should be "Intel(R) PCHM SATA AHCI Controller 4 Port. If it isn't you should re-install the Intel Chipset Driver originally from ASUS. Also make sure that SATA Mode Selection in the BIOS is set to AHCI - IF set to IDE this could be the cause.

    Hope this helps,
    In Christ,
    Trav...
     
    Travelor, Sep 21, 2010
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  3. NovaH

    NovaH Company Representative

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    You can also check the hard disk using SeaTools off of the seagate website. It's free and it certainly won't hurt(as long as you have a backup). :p
     
    NovaH, Sep 21, 2010
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  4. jasonnam

    jasonnam Notebook Geek

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    I meant i atually uninstalled the HDD driver (right click on the HDD -> uninstall) not the controller.

    I googled my problem and a lot of people have this as well, not in g73 but other platforms, this seems like a microsoft thing, i don't know :)

    i'm in sata mode as well and i don't think it's hardware related.
     
    jasonnam, Sep 21, 2010
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