The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    Very Slow Installations on Vista

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by alber, Mar 10, 2009.

  1. alber

    alber Notebook Consultant

    Reputations:
    6
    Messages:
    297
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    Hi,

    I'm having a problem when I install a new video game on my T61P : It's it extremely slow to install. It can take up to 1.5 hour to install a big game like GTA IV :S :S I also installed CoD4, CoD:WaW and Red Alert 3 lately and it was very very slow too :( ..

    Do you know what is the problem ??

    THX
     
    alber, Mar 10, 2009
    #1
  2. t30power

    t30power Notebook Deity

    Reputations:
    190
    Messages:
    778
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    Sounds like there's an issue with your hard drive (not workin in DMA mode), the suggestion seems to uninstall the AHCI driver on Vista under Device Manager, another thing is to check if there is no background processes eating up your CPU (Ctrl+alt+del)
     
    t30power, Mar 10, 2009
    #2
  3. alber

    alber Notebook Consultant

    Reputations:
    6
    Messages:
    297
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    No background process eating up my CPU (30-40% CPU usage and 72% Physical Memory while I'm installing GTA IV... THX for the DMA mode advice, I'm gonna check this after my running installation ;) ;)
     
    alber, Mar 10, 2009
    #3
  4. pacmandelight

    pacmandelight Notebook Deity

    Reputations:
    260
    Messages:
    909
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    It could also be an anti-virus conflict. Try to temporarily disable/uninstall your anti-virus to see if there is a difference.
     
    pacmandelight, Mar 10, 2009
    #4
  5. alber

    alber Notebook Consultant

    Reputations:
    6
    Messages:
    297
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    I tried the DMA mode thing, I disable AVG and all windows defenses... and it is still slow, very slow...
     
    alber, Mar 10, 2009
    #5
  6. jonlumpkin

    jonlumpkin NBR Transmogrifier

    Reputations:
    826
    Messages:
    3,240
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    105
    What about copying data files from a DVD to the HDD? Is this process slow as well? If so, the problem is either the HDD or DVD drive (most likely operating in the wrong mode).
     
    jonlumpkin, Mar 10, 2009
    #6
  7. pacmandelight

    pacmandelight Notebook Deity

    Reputations:
    260
    Messages:
    909
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    Is your computer only slow transferring from DVD to HDD? Maybe your DVD drive is slow because it is running in silent mode? Change it to normal or max performance in BIOS.
     
    pacmandelight, Mar 11, 2009
    #7