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    Turning computer on after "Shut Down" = throttling?

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by reborn6303, Jan 12, 2015.

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    reborn6303 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Whenever I turn on my new p375 sm-a

    it takes about 20seconds or longer to boot up, upon actually being able to go into windows, the laptop stutters every 6-8 seconds for 1-2seconds.

    If I restart the laptop everything works smooth as butter,


    my specs are

    i7 4900mq,
    980m sli
    16gb ram
    500GB SSD
    1TB HDD
     
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    Have you benchmarked your storage at all? On a cold boot data does have to be stored in ram where as a restart wont actually flush everything.
     
    Meaker@Sager, Jan 13, 2015
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    what should I be looking for in a storage benchmark, its really odd, at first I thought it may be due to not having the AC plugged in, but after trying it with AC there was no difference.

    so to summarize what happens

    If I use "shutdown" to turn off my laptop and turn it back on, it will take 20-30seconds to boot to the login menu and then proceed to hang-up for 2 seconds every 7-8 seconds, quite literally everything i am doing looks as though its frozen when it decides to hang up.

    But if I do a "restart" on the system, while it does hang up trying to restart, once it manages to do so, it runs perfectly fine.

    also when i use restart, it loads into the login menu within seconds
     
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    Sounds like something is screwed up on the machine. I don't have the issue. See if a windows reinstall fixes it. If not, RMA the machine. Something's wrong somewhere. I don't know how that would have gotten past QA testing if you ordered an OS.
     
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    Thanks ill get on it,

    as for a windows reinstall how would I do it, I don't have windows 8.1 anywhere (though I do have the key)

    I might just RMA, probably buy a PK-3 thermal compound and ask that to apply it for me as I do have quite high temps for BF4
     
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    IC Diamond or Arctic Céramique 2 or Gelid GC Extreme should give the best temps without going liquid metal paste. I suggest propping up the machine too. Take four blocks of 2-ply toilet paper, fold until it's a square barely bigger than one of the rubber feet of your laptop, then put it under one of the rubber feet. Do this three more times for the other 3 corners of the machine. That should prop it up enough. Use max fans. BF4 on ultra with unlocked FPS is a CPU toasting simulator at 1080p.
     
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    James D Notebook Prophet

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    Disable Hybrid Boot.
    I guess this should be stickied for every owner of Windows 8/8.1
     
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    Went into "Power Options" -> "Change settings that are currently unavailable" -> Shut-down Settings -> "Uncheck "Turn on fast start-up"

    Thanks so much James!! Fixed the problem right up, OS boots in 3 seconds

    No more stuttering/freezing on a cold boot
     
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    My bad, I didn't even think of this. One of the first things I do with my PC is disable hibernation (alongside disabling aero shake and custom-setting my balanced power plan) so this never occurred to me XD
     
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