Vista Slow with new M1330 motherboard replacement

So My M1330 was part of the defective batches of Nvidia Video card. A dell tech guy came and replace the motherboard and also a defective battery. I assume that the hard drive would work the same and I assumed I didn't need to format. My current hard drive was just taking forever to boot up, and was just so slow. I figure i needed to reformat. I used a new 320GB hard drive i was planning to replace the current drive with. Now that its fully formatted. It's still unbelievable slow. I though the speed step might not be working current but i used wcpuid to test the current speed and it was at full speed. Though the system doesn't seem hot at all. I just cant figure out why its so slow. bios is currently at A12 which is the lastest

 

Check your drivers, and set Windows to High Performance.

Download CCleaner and look in the tools section, in startup, and see if there are things loading that you don't need.

Maybe the new drive is slower (5400 RPM) than your previous (7200 RPM?)?

Go to www.auslogics.com and download the free Disk Defragmenter and Registry Defragmenter programs.

Run CCleaner's cleaner, then do a disk defragmentation followed by a registry defragmentation. You should already see a performance gain.

Just some thoughts.

 

System is already set to high performance, and this is a fresh install. its a 7200rpm hard drive seagate ST9320421AS to be exact. I called dell they are dispatching me another motherboard. hopefully this will resolve my situation. Updated to SP1 and its still unbelievable slow took 3 hours to install. 5 minutes to boot up. It was never this slow with the older motherboard.

 

How long did you have your machine until the video card went south?

Do you do a lot of gaming on it?

 

Well, everything is working A ok now. Just had the dell tech guy come out and replace the motherboard once again. I was able to do some memory test and found out the sustained rate on the first replaced motherboard was around 100mb/sec and now its 1400mb/sec. I figure that was the reason for the slow down. didnt do anything to the OS after the change of the motherboard, so it was clearly the motherboard at fault.

Also the video card never crapped out. Called dell about a battery related issue, It was draining a lot faster than normal. The CSR notice my system was under the defective list and said they will be replacing motherboard as well.

 

Sorry, let me see if I have this straight. When you called up for the battery problem, the csr looked a list of m/bs with defective video cards? If that is the case, this is very interesting. That means that Dell already knows which systems are likely to fail. Hummm, in that case we should all be phoning up because I, for one, certainly want my m/b replaced before it fails. Or am I reading your post completely wrong !?

 

Yes you are reading it correctly.

 

This is just plain stupid. Dell should contact all of the affected users and replace the motherboards with the defective video chips. After all, Nvidia was supposed to be covering these costs!

 

Old news. They have known since November 2007.

 

Is this issue limited to one or more specific MB revisions?

 

I have the same problem my nvidia card is defective one. upon changing the motherboard, i find it slow . mine is vostro 1400

 

Hey Total,
If you are not a gamer, ask for a Intex X3100 motherboard and its heatsink. They will swap it for you if you keep insisting it and say your friend was able to get it. I had the same problem with my 8400gs motherboards and after 1 replacement the system became sluggish and I didn't want to keep having to chagne motherboards and got a x3100 instead. It works great and gives great battery life if you got a LED screen. Try it if you don't need a dedicated card.

You could also ask for a system exchange. My LED has some shadow lines on low brightness, could have been because of the service tech. Dell is giving me a SXPS 13 as an exchange.