Driven to Frustration, new tx2000

About a month ago I sat down to look at getting a new laptop and the tx2000 caught my eye. The newest HP tablet, and not much more expencive than a standard laptop. I have since orderd and recieved my laptop, and the thing is driving me crazy now. I am hoping some of the people here will be able to help me figure out what the problem I'm having is.

The setup i opted for was:
2gigs ram
AMD Turion(tm) 64x2 mobile Technology TL-64 2.20 GHz (2.2 dual core)
and Windows vista home premium.

i had previously been using a fujitsu tablet with a 1.64 dual core, and only 1 gig ram running windows xp, and was unhappy with the preformance I was getting on it.
When ordering this laptop I was expecting a large boost in preformance based just on the ram and processor alone.
However at this point, after having this laptop for a month or so I am so frustrated with it I am very much considering sending it back.

There are several problems which are bugging me right now.

First: The computer cannot seem to figure out how to hibernate correctly. I will close the lid (settings set for that to triger a hibernate) and when i go to reopen it, (sometimes only 10 min later) it will fail to properly come back online. Instead of any kind of loading screen, the computer displays a blank, slightly backlit, black screen. and the computer will do nothing to finish reloading and becomes unresponcive to any attempts at commands. the only way to fix this is for me to cause a forced shutdown holding the power button.
As well as failing to hibernate, the computer has a simmilar problem going into sleep more. it is likely the same thing will happen when i attempt to get the computer into sleep mode. Both of these occasions can happen I try to go into eithor mode by a) closing the laptop lid, or b) even when i go through the start menu to chose the action. even waiting to make sure it has finished sleeping before I close the lid of the computer.
Then sometimes, when it does go to sleep or hibernate correctly, when I reopen the laptop, I find that the computer has restarted itself and anything I had beeen saving or working on at the time is gone. This problem occures daily, and i will be forced to restart the system anaverage of 5-7 times a day, 3 of which are usually "hard" forced power downs because the computer has become unresponcive.

Second: My next biggest problem with the computer is the lack of preformance. It seems like unless I keep the computer set to "High Preformance" mode, it runs horridly slow. Taking what seems to be entirely too slow for what I am expecting out of this machine. A freshly restarted (and given time to finish loading all startup programs) computer should not be taking more than 10 seconds loading to open an explorer window to view my documents or music file folders.

I have no exact documentation on the slowness of the system, but it constantly bogs down on simple tasks that seem rediculious to me after my last experiences with the lesser machine of the fujitsu.

So any and all help with this would be appreciated, I dont know what I'm going to do if I cant get this figured out. Idont know if it is crappy HP junk left from when they sent it to me, or if vista is really this much of a hog on the computer. If all this really is the case from vista, then im about to see what I can do about reloading the computer with XP and see if that will make it work better.

Right now this system is an annoyance and I would consider it a waste of my money, I'm really hoping that this is mearly the case of some settings and usless programs causing the slowdown and problems. I would love for this system to show me it can be what I was expecting from it.

Thanks in advance for any help everyone can give me.

 

its a video card driver conflict issue [for cant turn it back to normal after hibernation]. What you can do is update the video card driver.

For performance you could try rmclock, you can adjust the speed of the cpu yourself. [did you let vista index everything for a few days? because it does take a few days for vista to index everything]

 

Have you done a clean install of Vista? Performance was absolutely miserable with the stock installation, and was greatly improved with a reinstall.....

 

To Acorn: I'll check on a new driver for the video card. one of the problems is that there are not many drivers avalible yet as this computer has only been avalible for a few months sofar. And I'm not quite sure what you mean by Indexing, I have had the computer and been using it daily for several weeks now.

No I have not tried a clean install. I see that there is a topic that says how to do so in this forum. i will look more into doing that this weekend. My only question abuot that is will i lose all of the data i now have on the computer durring the reinstall?

 

Brock, i'd recommend doing the clean Vista reinstall, but you should reformat So backing up all your stuff on an external would be wise.

 

One last question, if i do the clean install, will that void any of my warnties or anything like that? If i somehow mess it up, is this something i will be able to send off to Hp and they will still fix, or are they gonna tell me im out of luck?

 

no. As a matter of fact, whenever i send in my laptop for repairs, i remove my hard drive from the computer.

going from a fujitsu to an HP is a huge downgrade in quality. In my opinion fujitsu makes the highest quality laptops.

 

If you're refering strictly to HP Pavilion, I agree. On the other hand, the HP-Compaq (business series) is of high quality.


rgds.