Dell Inspiron N5110 slow startup

Hey, I got a Dell Inspiron N5510: 750HDD(5400rpm), Core i7, 8GB Ram and the computer boots in about 2 min and it seems for me too slow what can i do for that?

 

There is a trick in boot settings to configure more than one CPU core being used during boot, that should help. Is your laptop new or is the hard drive full? I reckon it should be well under a minute. Are you powering up in battery mode?

Ian

 

I used that trick i made the computer boot with the 8 processors and yes it's new i got it from about 3 weeks, i only used about 150 GB from the hard drive and i always boot on AC Mode but it only made the the booting little fast about 10-15 seconds and i think the laptop should boot in about 30-40 sec !

 

What point in the start up process do you mark as complete in your timings? It sounds to me like a load of processes are being loaded up at boot time - many of them are probably unneeded, but it sounds like you would probably already know this. Have you tried any disk utilities to evaluate integrity?

Ian

 

the "Starting Windows" takes alot of time then a black screen for about 4 seconds and the welcome finished fast and after it a black screen for 2 sec and wait till all processes finish loading..... NOTE: there's no messengers or any programs that needs to startup with the computer here EXCEPT the Dell drivers and programs.

 

DELL inspiron is slow because of all cheap hardware under the hoods. lower FSB, Poor wireless and so on. I have upgraded RAM to 6GB and removed all junk programs still it is slow.

My CQ56 (with lowest cpu (from hp class action) ), boots faster and load applications (as long some application not responding) faster than DELL 15R with core i3 and 1GB Graphics.

 

CPU FSB and wireless have absolutely nothing to do with bootup, it is all on the hard drive and how fast it can spin and the drive latency. Case in point, my R2's 250GB spinner drive got me a usable desktop in ~45 seconds, 1 x 160 GB SSD cut that down to 16 seconds, and RAID 0 SSDs I get a desktop in like 11 seconds.

 

My 15R N5110 has arrived so I can compare with you. Mine seems similar in spec to yours (I have the i7 2670qm). I get the password prompt after 33 seconds. I haven't done any optimizations except for selecting '8' CPUs on the msconfig advanced boot option. Interestingly, that's only 11 seconds quicker than my old HP Touchsmart and the CPU in that is 6-7 slower than the Core i7.

Ian

 

I just mentioned few things. I just thought hard drive is similar 5400 RPM. If it not spinning good, one more piece of..... and I have ever seen that many complaints about slow bootups on any other model.

I am not complaining much about inspiron. It is working reasonably good for the price. Main complaint is slow boot up time and some ocational gliches.

 

The best thing for you to do is work will dell support and get it solved.