A20-S103 slow performance

The performance of the two satellite a20-s103 is driving me crazy.
startup time rangigng from 3 to 10 minutes makes me want to break things out the window.

And the only tweak I can think of in the Bios change the performance of the battery.

Made of many clean install provided CD but her but both machines keep worsens.

Does anyone else have this experience with this model

A20-s103 P4 2.8 ghz (announced) 256 MB

Please advice or tips are welcome

they are driving me crazy.

[Edited by: admin]

Hi Ercansia,

As rightly says Miro, you should check your BIOS boot order to make sure that you dΘmarrez from the HARD drive, although it is not too much difference if you have your optical drive specified first.

Alternatively, you can consider the following:--

1. If you have mapped network drives your system will wait for a timeout on them before continuing the boot process, unless your network connection is available. This will also be the case if your all shared devices.

2. your Prefetch folder can be too full. This will be the case if you use lots of different programs. You must delete the contents of the Prefetch folder (this will be in your Windows folder). XP will rebuild the basewd content on your registry settings.

HTH

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