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Aspire 5536 Slow Booting

post #1 of 14
11/16/09 at 11:51am
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Hi,

I have a brand new Acer Aspire 5536 Notebook. It came pre-shipped with Vista which I did not want.

So I tried a fresh install of Win7 - formatted drive etc,. Machine takes 5+ mins to boot so I put this down to a compatibility issue and tried XP. However I have the same problem, fresh install with only updates installed and it takes forever to boot (even longer than Win7).

Once booted performance is ok (in Win7 it was near perfect). Any ideas, I am beginning to think it is defective.

Thanks in advance,

Rob.
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post #2 of 14
11/16/09 at 1:38pm
Was Vista booting up quick and performing fine? If it was, then nothing is wrong with the hardware, but the set-up and the software (drivers) configuration by itself.

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post #3 of 14
11/16/09 at 1:47pm
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I honestly cannot rememeber as it was always my intention to remove Vista. I was not the one who originally booted the m,achine out of the box. Since the initial boot would have involved some setup it would have taken longer than usual I suspect.

Almost certainly it was shut down afterthe first boot and I then formatted the drive.

Rob.
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post #4 of 14
11/16/09 at 1:52pm
So you now have XP installed? Is this up to date? What about the drivers? Review your antivirus settings? Startup processes and services?

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post #5 of 14
11/16/09 at 1:53pm
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Fresh install of XP. All drivers up to date and latest updates downloaded. The machine is clean - nothing has been installed.

Rob.
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post #6 of 14
11/16/09 at 2:06pm
Where did you get the installation disk from? An OEM or a copy from somewhere? Download some virus scanner and run it?

Review your Services and start-up processes as well and see if there is anything out of the norm?

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post #7 of 14
11/16/09 at 3:29pm
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There are around 22 process running - none of which appear to be suspicious. There were 5 programs running at startup (4 were for adui/video applications) - I've disabled all but 1.

The disc is a copy of the original so Iknow it is clean and works perfectly on my desktop.

Rob.
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post #8 of 14
11/16/09 at 4:32pm
run a hard drive diagnostic, could have a couple of bad sectors.
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post #9 of 14
11/16/09 at 4:45pm
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A format would have fixed though wouldn't it? I have formatted the drive more than 10 times when re-installing.

Rob.
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post #10 of 14
11/16/09 at 5:49pm
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Originally Posted by robburne View Post
There are around 22 process running - none of which appear to be suspicious. There were 5 programs running at startup (4 were for adui/video applications) - I've disabled all but 1.

The disc is a copy of the original so Iknow it is clean and works perfectly on my desktop.

Rob.
What happens if you disable ALL of them?

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post #11 of 14
11/17/09 at 7:35am
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It makes no difference, it still takes an age to boot. It almost seems as if the drive is running slow. I have tried removing the IDE controllers and rebooting, serching for new drivers etc,. which leads me to conclude that there is a hardware failure. I have installed XP literally 100's of times and I've never come across this problem before.

Rob.
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post #12 of 14
11/17/09 at 9:19am
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A format would have fixed though wouldn't it? I have formatted the drive more than 10 times when re-installing.

Rob.
nope, a bad sector is a bad sector.
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post #13 of 14
11/17/09 at 3:15pm
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I ran the chkdisk utility in XP and it completed without errors. Can anyone recommened a more comprehensive tool?

Is a bad sector likely/possible on a brand new notebook?

Rob.
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post #14 of 14
11/17/09 at 8:03pm
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Originally Posted by robburne View Post
I ran the chkdisk utility in XP and it completed without errors. Can anyone recommened a more comprehensive tool?
XP chkdsk tool is good enough for me. If it says disk ok, then it is ok for me. That's all I ever used.

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Is a bad sector likely/possible on a brand new notebook?

Rob.
Sure. Devices can be bad without being "old"

To be fair to Acer, I would reinstall Vista and test it out. If the issue of slow start up persists after some software tweaking then we can pound on Acer for bad hardware.

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