So this has baffled me for a while now, I've usually just ignored it but now its really annoying me.
I have an i7 920 desktop I built my self back in 2009 with 6GB of DDR3 and a Radeon 4870.
Its start up times and shutdown times are beat by my small ASUS G60JX with only a small i5, and 4GB of DD3.
They're both running Windows 7 Professional, I've tried narrowing it down to some kind of part on my desktop but if I were to use safe mode on the desktop its exceptionally fast.
Here is what I've done so far on my desktop to try and speed it up; I've disabled startup programs, fiddled with BIOS configuration settings, changed Windows 7's theme to classic, adjusted for best performance, new video drivers, motherboard drivers, SFC checks, HDD integrity check with Windows, and some other stuff that I can't remember right now, but its just always quirky and sometimes slow when it really shouldnt be. Right now in the taskbar it shows the network icon as if its searching for something but its frozen with the searching icon stuck, but the internet works just fine, sometimes explorer.exe freezes randomly. I've done virus scans as well but I reformat every 2 months or so because these problems keep annoying me.
The HDD's on the desktop are 1 500GB Sata HDD with 7200 RP, Windows 7 uses that as the primary drive, and a 1TB drive for dead space, I've heard that its better for drives of that size to be dead space instead of having the 500GB be dead space, otherwise the drive is always accessed and lowers the life expectancy.
The RAM is rated at 1600 but it runs at 1067 for some reason even though 1600 is selected, Speccy lists the memory running as 6.0GB Triple-Channel DDR3 @ 530MHz (7-7-7-20)
I'm A+ certified and I just don't understand, maybe someone else has some input or advice that could remedy this problem...
I have an i7 920 desktop I built my self back in 2009 with 6GB of DDR3 and a Radeon 4870.
Its start up times and shutdown times are beat by my small ASUS G60JX with only a small i5, and 4GB of DD3.
They're both running Windows 7 Professional, I've tried narrowing it down to some kind of part on my desktop but if I were to use safe mode on the desktop its exceptionally fast.
Here is what I've done so far on my desktop to try and speed it up; I've disabled startup programs, fiddled with BIOS configuration settings, changed Windows 7's theme to classic, adjusted for best performance, new video drivers, motherboard drivers, SFC checks, HDD integrity check with Windows, and some other stuff that I can't remember right now, but its just always quirky and sometimes slow when it really shouldnt be. Right now in the taskbar it shows the network icon as if its searching for something but its frozen with the searching icon stuck, but the internet works just fine, sometimes explorer.exe freezes randomly. I've done virus scans as well but I reformat every 2 months or so because these problems keep annoying me.
The HDD's on the desktop are 1 500GB Sata HDD with 7200 RP, Windows 7 uses that as the primary drive, and a 1TB drive for dead space, I've heard that its better for drives of that size to be dead space instead of having the 500GB be dead space, otherwise the drive is always accessed and lowers the life expectancy.
The RAM is rated at 1600 but it runs at 1067 for some reason even though 1600 is selected, Speccy lists the memory running as 6.0GB Triple-Channel DDR3 @ 530MHz (7-7-7-20)
I'm A+ certified and I just don't understand, maybe someone else has some input or advice that could remedy this problem...
j/k My exam on Practical Application is tomorrow. :| (I'll be fine)
