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by n.habberjam

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I have a Compaq Armada M700 Laptop and when I turn the power on, it starts to count the Memory in the top left hand corner. It has a 6Gb Hard Drive and as you can imagine, it takes ages to count the memory and start up !!. Does anyone know how to turn the clock counter off? I have looked in the BIOS setting bu there is no facility to change the clock counter?? Please could someone help?

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by cglrcng9

How much RAM is installed in the unit? There's a hdwre. problem if that clock isn't flying...Is turbo turned on?

by thechas

If it counts the memory only once, there is little that you can do.

If it counts the memory 3 times, there should be a BIOS setting to enable fast self test.

Chas

by thechas

Thought about how you worded your question.

Does the PC run scandisk on the hard drive everytime that you boot?

That is the only test that should count up the 6GB of the hard drive.

The memory test should not count up any higher than the installed physical RAM.

Chas

by csmith

This laptop has "Suspend"
Suspend will hold the information for two weeks on a fully charge battery (Not plugged into A/C outlet)
What's the problem?
Use suspend.
Regards, Chris

by rcom

First, some information
The count that you're experiencing has nothing to do with the hard drive or any type of clock. What's happening is the computer is performing what should be a quick check of the random access memory or RAM. These are also called SIMMs (single inline memory modules) or DIMMs (dual inline memory modules). The memory (RAM) is a temporary storage of the tasks being performed on the PC. Once the computer is turned off anything in RAM is not saved. To keep the work it needs to be stored on a hard drive or other medium. When refering to hard drives it's better to use the term "storage space" instead of memory. So one would say "how much space is left on the hard drive" as opposed to "how much memory is left on the hard drive". This should help you to understand the difference.

Now the answer to your question,
Go into the BIOS, F10 when the cursor is flashing in the upper right corner of screen. Find and enable fast boot this will eliminate the memory checking from the startup sequence.

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