I have a compaq 2516ea laptop with a 2.53Ghz Pentium, 512 Ram and 40G hard drive, all in all, this should fly! Instead, on a CLEAN INSTALL after reformatting with NTFS, it is struggling to keep up with my old 233PII. ...in fact, the 233 outperforms it normally! I thought about power saving in the bios maybe powering down the cpu, but there are no settings ... huh? Time taken to access the disk seems fairly slow as well, yet sandra2004 reports disk speed as ok (about 92% of target system). Don't think this is a windows problem as such, because even /during/ the install, everything runs slowly. (XP install, maybe 2+ up to 3 hours)
There's a huge bottleneck here somewhere, and I'm losing patience.
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance
Paul

I have a compaq 2516ea laptop with a 2.53Ghz Pentium, 512 Ram and 40G hard drive, all in all, this should fly! Instead, on a CLEAN INSTALL after reformatting with NTFS, it is struggling to keep up with my old 233PII. ...in fact, the 233 outperforms it normally! I thought about power saving in the bios maybe powering down the cpu, but there are no settings ... huh? Time taken to access the disk seems fairly slow as well, yet sandra2004 reports disk speed as ok (about 92% of target system). Don't think this is a windows problem as such, because even /during/ the install, everything runs slowly. (XP install, maybe 2+ up to 3 hours)
There's a huge bottleneck here somewhere, and I'm losing patience.
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance
Paul


If the Initial install using a XP cdrom takes over 2hr then i would look at your cooling fan on the motherboard. if the fan is not working or the heatsink is not seated corectly, then the cpu "WILL" slow down as it gets to hot causing massive system slowdowns due to the cpu running at a speed of aprox 150mhz in order to stay cool and prevent core damage.