Satellite 1800-712: slow after WXP Pro included SP2 installation

Hello

I have a Toshiba 1800-712 and I've recently upgraded the memory with another 256 MB.

Before the upgrade the laptop run very fast because there where loads of unnecessary applications installed. I bought a Windows XP and it installed on the laptop with SP2.

Since then, the laptop is very slow to access the DVD drive and the HARD drive.

He ran before that kind of OK with XP Home, but since XP Professional you cannot watch DVD as they stutter and if play you MP3 in Mediaplayer the possibility is also not in sync with the music.

It seems that there is missing specific IDE drivers or the wrong with those supplied with XP.

I had a glance on the toshiba site, but the drivers only I can find that there is the display and audio drivers.

The motherboard seems to be an ALI M5229 Chipset

I need to restore professional XP and re - install my whole machine with XP Home that comes with it?

I also tried the DVD player to be upgraded to the latest Firmware but that does no change.

She is running in UDMA 2 and I tried PIO and I also had a peek into the Bios with IDE Standard or extra but still the same.

Anyone?

PT - 1 (at) gmx.net

Hi James,

In principle your laptop should also work well with XP Pro installed as it did with XP Home. However, I would be inclined to check in the Task Manager to see what processes you really have running and also make sure that your installation of XP Pro is not make the repeated attempts to access a network or network resources.

Also, I would like to run a disk cleanup and Defragmenter of given that the installation process tends to leave the hard drive in a bit of a mess of the nature of the facility.

The fact that your DVD stutter when playing suggests that there are other CPU activity going on in the background.

Kind regards

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