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  • January 6, 2000 at 4:47 am #2081937

    Laptop preformance is slow after Upgrade

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    by bjones · about 23 years, 2 months ago

    Why does my laptop act like a 486, after doing a BIOS upgrade,Windows Critical Update, and SR2b upgrade?

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    • January 6, 2000 at 5:54 am #3900042

      Laptop preformance is slow after Upgrade

      by phil mcse/mcp+i · about 23 years, 2 months ago

      In reply to Laptop preformance is slow after Upgrade

      Double check all of your bios settings after the upgrade (for example, L2 cache, LBA on IDE, etc). Every BIOS upgrade I have done has reset the bios to their defaults, losing any changes you mights have done them (including boot order). The other updates shouldn’t really affect system speed other than perhaps fragmenting your hard drive. Hope this helps you, as I went through something similiar last week doing bios upgrades. Good luck.

    • January 6, 2000 at 8:26 am #3900039

      Laptop preformance is slow after Upgrade

      by csheltcomp · about 23 years, 2 months ago

      In reply to Laptop preformance is slow after Upgrade

      Sometimes you may have to do a second flash in case all the settings were correct in the BIOS.

    • January 6, 2000 at 9:49 am #3900034

      Laptop preformance is slow after Upgrade

      by mcse lee · about 23 years, 2 months ago

      In reply to Laptop preformance is slow after Upgrade

      1) Reflash the BIOS
      2) Check ALL BIOS settings
      3) Run Scandisk (in Windows) thorough
      4) Run Disk Defragmenter (in Windows)

    • January 7, 2000 at 1:12 am #3900025

      Laptop preformance is slow after Upgrade

      by dennis@l · about 23 years, 2 months ago

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      Also check you disk space, delete all temp files from \windows\temp folder and empty the recycle bin. Run defrag also.

    • January 7, 2000 at 2:43 am #3900016

      Laptop preformance is slow after Upgrade

      by mrushing · about 23 years, 2 months ago

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      Depending on what kind of laptop it is, there may be some power management settings in it that actually have it running at about the speed of a 486. I ran in to this with a Toshiba a while back. Flashing the BIOS reset the Power management to low power usage. It actually halves the number of CPU cycles per second. This is supposed to save power. You may also want to try reflashing the BIOS. It’s not likely that it was the critical updates.

    • January 7, 2000 at 12:28 pm #3903200

      Laptop preformance is slow after Upgrade

      by rcole · about 23 years, 2 months ago

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      You upgraded the BIOS and now your operating system thinks it’s on a different machine. When the operating system is installed it looks at the hardware on the machine and installs itself accordingly. While not every BIOS upgrade will effect the OS you should reload the operating system anytime you change the BIOS unless you know for sure that the BIOS upgrade did not change any of the critical functions of the machine.

      My two cents.

    • September 20, 2000 at 7:02 pm #3740363

      Laptop preformance is slow after Upgrade

      by bjones · about 22 years, 6 months ago

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