My Satellite A500 is extremely slow

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  Hello

  I have a Satellite 1410-714 which has had a hard drive failure. I replaced the drive, but now the computer is extremely slow. Windows has been reinstalled, it was really slow too much and now it takes minutes for windows to start.

  I suspect that something might have broken on the motherboard and the hard disk. I checked mobo replacement parts, but have not found anything for-714, so a 1410 mobo compatible? This model has a processor celeron 1.8.

  Thanks for help.

  Hannu

  Hello

  I can t think the motherboard is broken after replacing HARD drive.
  I suggest updating the BIOS first. Maybe your old BIOS have a few problems with the most recent HARD drive.
  Please check site driver Toshiba for the latest version of BIOS.

  Have you used any anties Virus applications?

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  I tried to keep up with the web and it turns out that if I reinstalled the OS to Toshiba Recovery CD, it should do the thing... never mind, I didn't know I should have this CD when I bought it... so now I don't... Is there anything I could do about it?
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  Q.

  Hello

  As far as I know, this camera comes with W98SE and WME. The recovery CD with operating system Windows XP Home edition for this device is not created by Toshiba.

  You can install Windows XP Home edition and use all the drivers for the Toshiba download site. I don t know how much RAM use this device, but if the unit has less than 128 MB of RAM you can't wait the machine runs fast.

• Satellite M55 is extremely slow

  Hello world
  I need help with the following:
  I own a * Toshiba Satellite M55 *. I bought it a few years ago and so far it worked great, but recently (since 3 days ago).
  It works really SLOW, with about 5 minutes loading screen and things like that.

  Spyware has nothing to do with it, because I rebooted it yesterday (and even the installation of the OS took me like 3 hours!). The laptop is perfectly clean, software-wise. So, this leads me to think that my problem is in the hardware but I don't really know.

  Need help!
  Concerning

  Hello

  What was happen in the last three days? Did you do Windows update and installed the latest KBs?
  If you really think that this operating system is clear, I can imagine that the HARD drive may be responsible for the slow-running.

  I recommend you to backup all of your important data, because the HARD drive may soon be at the end of his life. Try to find a program to check the HARD disk and to ensure that all sectors of HARD drive are not damaged.

• Satellite 2450-201: extremely slow startup

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  Hello

  Really sounds like something wrong with the HARD drive.
  Several weeks during playback on my laptop, I heard a strange noise.
  It failed for me to send it back, but I thought that it s a cooling module.

  But then my phone started very slow and after several days the BIOS was not able to recognize the HARD drive! It was a simply a head crash.
  I was a lucky man because I saved all my important files on the other computer.

  You must take care, perhaps even you will arrive

• Satellite A500 Win7 startup slow x 64/Vista x 64

  Now, I have currently Win 7 HP x 64, but the boot takes me 1 min 29 seconds, it is normal?
  Only Kaspersky Internet Security 2010 and ATI catalyst begin with the system, the win7 drivers are installed.

  Hello

  I agree with the user above. In my opinion 1 min and 29seconds are normal to start up on Windows 7 if it s all ok with your laptop!

  But as written Al - eX you can optimize it a little, but it brings may be only a few seconds. Simply follow the instructions posted by Al - eX.

  By the way: you can also remove Toshiba TEMPRO. Who should also help you a little.

• Satellite A500 - slower with videos on Windows 7

  Hi, I desperately need advice, I am 78 years old and going into the wall.

  My Satellite A500 / 03P was bought with preinstalled Vista and worked fine. My particular interest is the functioning and the creation of video clips from training for other seniors, like video purchased has worked, stutter free. I took the offer to upgrade to Windows 7 and bought the upgrade, things went quickly downhill since. Installing Windows 7 became crazy during the installation, I have to take the computer to a maintenance shop. He was returned with Windows 7 installed, but has been considerably slower with videos run from the hard drive stuttering, worse still, my connection Internet ADSL2 running about 1.25 m bits per second.

  After a while I got to service man and $ 200 later was provided with a dual boot hard drive, Windows 7 32-bit and 64-bit Windows 7. The system is practically unusable for video. I downloaded and installed all the 32 and 64-bit drivers provided by Toshiba but had to give up the 64-bit completely as unusable. I tried to install another copy of Vista Ultimate, bought for my old desktop PC, but could not get Internet to work, either directly or via the WIFI on the laptop.

  I tried to run the Toshiba on the 32-bit Windows 7, but the laptop is too slow, that even my email creeps to e-mail readere. Any advice would be most appreciated that my pension will not bear the costs of local peoples. Should I buy the Toshiba original disks and return to 'ex factory Vistor State' or what.

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  LeslieB

  Hi Leslie,.

  I m really wondering why your A500 has so many problems with Windows 7. From my own experience I can say it s really great and better than Vista OS. I use 1.5 years now and everything is working a lot on it.

  In any case, did you check if all devices are properly installed in Device Manager and if there is no yellow exclamation?
  When you watch videos, have you selected the power profile high performance in Windows?

  > Should I buy the Toshiba original disks and return to 'ex factory Vistor State' or what.
  That would be an option, Yes.
  You don t have the Toshiba Recovery disk? If this isn't the case, you can get it from a provider of service authorized in your country.

• Extremely slow on my Satellite Z930 - 15 X

  Hello

  Here is my problem (sorry for my English):

  I have a Toshiba Satellite Z930 15 X.

  For several weeks, it is very very slow. If eco or normal mode, it is still slower than the eco mode. * Even without running any program *. When I look at the Task Manager, everything is ok and fluid.

  Is this a hardware problem?
  I also noticed that the fan works far more often than the first months of use, even with just an open word document.

  The only solution I found is to restart the computer.
  After each restart, it is fast as usual, but only for a short period. But at one time or another, the extreme slowness often returns after a break.

  * I also noticed that it often occurs after a suspension or the connection / disconnection of the laptop from the AC outlet.*

  (I said I have a few programs installed and no trace of virus and other software malicious (I'm very careful about that)).

  Have you had this problem, where it comes from, what can I do?

  Thank you!

  Hello

  On this virtual path, it is not easy to tell what exact reason. To be honest I don't think that there is a hardware problem. Fact is that many background processes can slow down the performance of s for laptop. Perhaps some context downloads and installation of the update may be reason your laptop reacts quite slow.

  Please check the commissioning and disable all unnecessary applications. If you do not use some of them, they should not start with Windows and run in the background. Also check Windows update option. Turn off automatic updating.

  If please do first and check if the laptop runs a little faster.
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• Satellite A500 - 17 X - Games slows down if I play on battery mode

  Hello
  When my laptop (Satellite A500 - 17 X) is connected, the game I play (Call Of Duty 4) works very nice, but if I try to play the game while my laptop is on battery, the game slows down. If you know what I mean.

  Is this supposed to happen because the graphics card does not work well when the notebook is on battery or something wrong with my laptop?

  Hello

  That's is a bit strange, I've never had such a problem and I don t often play on battery mode, only on AC/DC adapter.

  The only idea I have for the moment, is that you should check the power Windows settings. Maybe in the power profile that you use is something different for battery operation, e. g. CPU maximum performance set to 50% for battery operation.
  Check it!

  Here is a good article on these parameters:
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• Satellite A500 - slow startup

  Hello

  I have a Satellite A500.
  During the two days when I turn on my laptop it takes 20 minutes before entering the Enter password box and then another half an hour before the load upward.
  It is stuck on the Welcome screen.

  I also have problems stopping.
  I tried f8 and then recovering from an early date.
  But I got "no restore point is available", or something like that.
  It looks like now that with each attempt to restart the laptop runs things more and more bizarre.

  Should I restore it to factory setting? Should I reinstall windows 7?

  I'm actually missing on sea for work so I don't even have the CD recovery with me.
  What is the best thing to do?

  And if I need to restore to the default origin can I do it without the CD?
  Have yet another month overseas so any help will be great.

  Thank you
  UVA

  > Should I restore it to factory setting? Should I reinstall windows 7?
  Yes, in my opinion, you should try this, but in case this problem is hardware related, the recovery would not help a lot.

  > I'm actually missing on sea for work so I don't even have the CD recovery with me.
  > And if I need to restore to the default origin can I do it without the CD?

  Try HARD drive recovery:
  [How to recover a Toshiba notebook with the HDD recovery procedure | http://aps2.toshiba-tro.de/kb0/HTD1303440001R01.htm]

  If the HARD drive recovery is possible, the recovery discs are not necessary.

  But I'm afraid; m HARD drive can be a troublemaker. It probably needs to be replaced.

• Re: Satellite A500-1 - slow after blue screen

  Hi all

  I've owned a Satellite A500-1 in a year with no problems at all until a few days ago. When it tuning on it gave me a blue screen of death, and after 10 seconds, it turned blue, so I couldn't read error.

  I noticed reduced performance since it happened. Especially when you play games or movies HD, the picture and sound will freeze every few seconds. This happens in Windows 7 and Ubuntu. I did a new install of both, but the problem persists.

  I scanned the hard drive and memory errors, but it wasn't everything. Cant someone give me some advice, please?

  Thank you

  Hello

  > This happens in Windows 7 and Ubuntu. I did a new install of both, but the problem persists.
  This would mean that the problem is hardware-related and operating system installation seems to be ok, but it could be anything and it s is not easy to say what part is affected.

  Some parts, you can check yourself like RAM and HARD drive.

  http://www.HitachiGST.com/HDD/support/download.htm#DFT
  With the Drive Fitness Test, you can test your HARD drive. Download the CD image, burn it to a CD and boot from it. Then you can test the HARD drive.
  On the same site is a user's guide if you want to know more.

  http://Memtest86.com/
  Memtest86 is a diagnostic tool to check the RAM. Here, you can also download a CD image.
  It s easy to use. Run the test of 3-4 hours and then you will see if the RAM has some errors.

  If both tests cannot find an error, it must be another problem as the motherboard or the CPU. For such a diagnosis, you must contact an authorized service provider. They can help you get rid of this problem. You can find a complete list of the guys here:
  http://EU.computers.Toshiba-Europe.com > support & downloads > find an ASP.

  :)

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  Seller told me it was a problem of Internet Explorer and download Firefox.
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  Was told to change the channel on the router, I've done and no difference.

  Then said that if I changed the TX auto at 100% power level the problem should be solved.
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  Laptop of the child works very well exactly in the same places in the House, at 9 more Mbps, where my brand new Toshiba crawls to 0.09, or sometimes 0.10 MB/s.

  I also tried to turn all devices wireless into house arrest, but it did not help.

  Can someone help me please. I'm at my wits end and regretting spending so much money on this «high-performance notebook»

  Oh, I'm on Windows 7, have updated the Realtek RTL8191SE Wireless LAN 802.11n PCI-E NIC and am ready for the hills.

  Help! ................................please!

  Have now updated the WLAN and the BIOS (?) but still not good.
  A lot of reading of problems like that of machines Toshiba.
  Really thought it was a good brand.
  Blood pressure is very high.
  I guess I'll be back tomorrow and get my money back.
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• Satellite A30 extremely slow for about 2 months now

  Hi I need help, my A30, I bought about 2.5 years ago was extremely slow for about 2 months now. I only use it at home, and as such, I don't have a lot of programs loaded on it.

  What could be making it so slow and what can I improve performance.

  Hello

  The first thing to do is start the Utility Manager tasks (right click on the task bar) and check what you have running, as well as the process what CPU they use. For a standard installation of Windows XP I would expect to see about process assets of 40-50 but only 1 or 2% of CPU. Stop every process that you don't want especially if they use a lot of CPU.

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  My old laptop that I bought in 1999 is faster than my new laptop dual processor 2 k of RAM 4 GB, which gives and what could be the problem.

  I have updated software drivers ect as the CD/DVD is broken has anyone else had these problems and you would know how to sort?

  Help please

  Hello!

  It's not easy to say what the reason, that's why your laptop is so slow, but you have the same problem with the factory settings?
  I mean the preinstalled version of Windows Vista with all the drivers and tools of Toshiba. So take the Toshiba recovery disc and try it. You can post your result.

  Two years ago, I had a similar problem. My new laptop has been extremely slow and the reason of this problem was the HARD drive. He had bad sectors and so he made do to the computer very slow. After exchanging the drive HARD everything worked well.
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  Hello

  Since I installed windows 7 I can't use my computer in battery saving mode because it becomes extremely slow.

  It takes so long for trivial tasks. It is virtually unusable.

  Can anyone tell me the reason for the problem and if there is some sort of solution?

  Thank you.

  Hello

  What performance maximum CPU you have for the power saving mode? Check the Windows power management settings: start > Control Panel > Power Options.

  The plan for the power saving mode settings and make sure that the maximum performance of the CPU is at 100% for the power saving mode. This increases the performance of the computer.