First thought is a problem in the disk subsystem. Do any other operating systems behave this way? If so, then its almost certainly a hardware problem.
You might also look to see if your system is running out of RAM. If that is the case (does your video card share main memory with the CPU?), then adding memory could help. It seems unlikely that this would be case if you were formatting the hard disk though.... since one would hope in such a case you weren't running dozens of other programs.... -- Garrett Yingwu Xu wrote: > Hello; > I have a 4 years old Toshiba Satellite A15 running extremely slow > (2.4GHZ, 256MB). Therefore I formatted the hard disk and found > formatting is very slow too. When it predicted 10-20hours to finish > the formatting, I powered off and restarted formatting. Once it > predicted to finish the formatting in 1hour, I let it go on and > finished in 2hours. Normal formatting should be less than 1hour. > After formatting, setting is slow too. It takes 10-20seconds to > response to a click of ?next?. > Finally, the system is up. There is no any error. All programs work, > just slow. It takes 10-20second to popup the Task Manger window, or > 10-20seconds to open the Internet Explorer or the Notepad. > Tested CPU speed by internet software, it is near 2.4GHZ. RAM looks > correct. Disk size is correct. Fan runs. It reads and plays CD/DVD. It > recognizes flash drive. CPU or memory is only lightly loaded when > starting the Notepad or Explorer. No other programs installed yet. > It takes long time to turn off or restart. > Do you have any idea? What is wrong? Please help me. > Thanks. > Y5. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > laptop-discuss mailing list > laptop-discuss at opensolaris.org
