Lenovo U300s Boot Up

**I posted this in the U300s owners forum but decided it might need it's own thread as well.

Hi folks. I've now got my U300s for just a little over a month. An interesting observation I have made is that the boot up time has significantly increased.

Once I first got the laptop, it would reach the login page in 11 seconds and then take a further 2 seconds to fully stabilize after logging in. I actually timed this just to see if Lenovo's 10 second claim was accurate.

Then a week or two later, the login page was reached in 13 seconds, and took 3 seconds to stabilize thereafter.

Now, it takes 18 seconds to reach the login page and a further 7 seconds to stabilize.

At this rate, it is alarming as I only have had the laptop for 1 month. I never expected the drop to be so drastic.

Just to be sure, I only installed a few apps (Firefox, Security Essentials, Full Office, Flash, Java and Adobe Reader), and all these within the first few days of use. Since then, I have not installed a single new app. All I do is browse the Internet.

My computer is totally free of viruses. I defragment my disk and clean it up as well. I cannot understand why is there a drop-off, considering I obviously do not use my machine to the max. All the apps I installed are pretty clean and basic. My usage, like I mentioned, is basically Firefox plus a little office.

Is this the same case for you? I would like to get a reply!

PS: Would be good if you can share your boot up time to the login page, and the further time it takes to stabalize after logging in (you can see the blue loading circle on the cursor). Also include the period of time for which you've had your machine.

 

Just for comparison sake with my old laptop (an Acer netbook with 2GB RAM), the netbook took around 30 seconds to start up when I first got it, and after nine months of usage, the overall boot process went up to about 40 seconds.

This despite the fact that I had obviously used the netbook for a far longer time, and I had more apps installed such as Skype, iTunes and a few others that I can't recall now.

 

I'm pasting my reply in the owners thread:

With a Solid State Drive (rather than a platter hard drive) there is no need to defragment in the conventional sense. I've read several articles and it's a common school of thought that defragmenting SSDs can actually cause damage. That's one thing to think about.

Java and Adobe both slow startup time by a small percentage.

Which model do you have? What power settings do you use? Have you been monitoring CPU usage and frequency? There is a BIOS update on the Lenovo site Lenovo Support - Drivers & Downloads

I just timed my i7 256gb U300s, boot up was about 18 seconds, 2-3 seconds therafter with everything up. Mine is about six months old with probably 25 different programs installed and tons running at startup.

Resume time is still 2-3 seconds, while wake from hibernate (after 70 minutes of sleep) is closer to 20 seconds.

I hope that helps.