why is my labtop so slow??

[Ilikepiedoyou]

I have a dell inspiron 9300 with a 1.73s mhz pentium m processor. But it is so SLOWWWW. It is stable though and crashes rarely. Are there any sort of checks I can make to see what the problem is? Autocad and max rendering takes way loner than it should just for the setup, let alone the rendering itself.

 

[Brainonska511]

Have you done the standard spyware checks with Spybot Search & Destroy, Adaware, and Windows Defender? How about a virus scan? Did this start to happen recently? Have you done anything that may have closed this slow down?

 

[Ilikepiedoyou]

I have run the Mcafee virus software that came with the machine and about once a week I use the adaware software. I am unaware of anything that I have done to cause a huge slow down. It happens mostly when I have large size drawings I am working on.

 

[CCityInstaller]

Originally posted by: Ilikepiedoyou
I have run the Mcafee virus software that came with the machine and about once a week I use the adaware software. I am unaware of anything that I have done to cause a huge slow down. It happens mostly when I have large size drawings I am working on.

Which video card did you equip your 9300 with? How much ram do you have? I use a 9300 at work for AutoCAD daily with a PM 1.73GHz, 1 GB DDR, 80 gig 5400 prm HD, and a mobile 6800 Go. The video card is quite important in terms of rendering performance. The other drawback is that most laptops use a slower 5400 prm HD, so disk intensive apps are going to be slower then on a desktop. I don't have any trouble with my 9300 mentioned above, but I do keep it up to date and spyware free. I would also highly suggest downloading and using a program called TuneXP, which can be found at DriverHeaven.net. The rearrange boot file options showed a drastic improvement with long load times for me with CAD. I use it on every system I own.

 

[Brainonska511]

How much RAM do you have? Do you have a dedicated video card?

 

[Zap]

Is the CPU running at full speed? I've noticed that if you turn off SpeedStep in BIOS, these notebooks will always run at slowest speed, which is 800MHz for a 533MHz FSB Pentium M. Strangely you don't notice much difference in performance on normal tasks.

 

[Ilikepiedoyou]

I have the same specs listed above, 1 gb memory, 80 gig hard drive and the upgraded video card. After starting 3dsmax or AutoCAD then everycomputer function is slow as molasses, even simple functions like browsing a folder. How do I turn off the speedstep in the bios, or more importtantly, how do I access the bios? I will download TuneXP and see what I make of it