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    gateway450rog very slow booting up

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by bcop803, Dec 14, 2007.

  1. bcop803

    bcop803 Newbie

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    i have a Gateway 450rog running xp home and takes about 5 mins to boot from power on to xp desktop. it does this weather it is hot or cold. i formated hdrive and reloaded xp. still no fix, once xp is up, it seems to ran ok. ANY idela would be a big help. Thanks
     
    bcop803, Dec 14, 2007
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  2. John B

    John B Notebook Prophet

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    Is it a freeze you have while the desktop is loading or is it while you see XP splash?
     
    John B, Dec 14, 2007
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    lokster Notebook Deity

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    probably you had too much stuff going on, or your hard drive needs a defrag, or more ram, OR a new hard drive
     
    lokster, Dec 14, 2007
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  4. Andromeda

    Andromeda Notebook Consultant

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    System specs?
    You'll probably need more memory or a faster drive.

    What you can do right away:
    -Check if your HDD has switched itself to PIO mode instead of UDMA
    -Run disk manufacturer's drive diagnostic program to eliminate HDD problems.
    -Disable unnecessary startup programs and services from loading while XP loads.
    -Run malware/anti-virus scans.
    -Run chkdsk once followed by disk cleanup and a disk defrag and a boot-time defrag (may need to use Diskeeper or similar for the boot-time defrag) to defrag the system files and paging files.

    This is what I'd do if i I were in a similar situation.
     
    Andromeda, Dec 14, 2007
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