Vista super slow loadup, sluggish performance

F

FluxD

New Member
I'm working on a friend's laptop and I'm clueless on how to fix this. On the black Windows loading screen the green bar stops and starts moving again randomly and the laptop takes about 20 minutes to boot to the Vista login screen. Once it gets there it takes another 10 minutes before the taskbar displays. THEN once you get there the computer takes forever to process anything you click on (10 minutes at least to do anything)

I tried booting in Safe Mode and it stalls for a bit trying to load the crcdisk.sys file. I've tried running the Windows Memory checker program thingy (the name escapes me right now, it loads before Vista does and is a blue screen) and it didn't catch any problems.

The specs are as follows:
MSi CR600 Series Laptop
Vista Home Premium SP1, 32bit
Intel Pentium Dual Core T4200 2.00GHz (Not great but the computer shouldn't be this slow)
nVidia Geforce 8200m
3GB ram
320GB HDD
 

My Computer

System One

Also the BIOS doesn't have an option to boot from a USB device or otherwise I would load Puppy, start pulling files to save and do a clean install of Vista once I found an installation disk. Any ideas on how to fix this Vista issue?
 

My Computer

System One

can you run msconfig and select boot logging and apply, then search for ntblog.txt and delete if found. reboot and the paste contents of the new ntblog.txt, that,ll help to see whats stalling.

you have tried system restore and malware scanning first ?
 
Last edited:

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    home brews
    Motherboard
    pc1 msi k7delta, pc2 asus kn79txd evo
    Memory
    pc1 2gb crucial, pc2 4gb gskill ripjaws
    Graphics Card(s)
    pc1 bfg 7800gs, pc2 shapphire 5770 vapor-x
    Sound Card
    onboard
    PSU
    corsair hx
    Case
    jeantech phong
    Cooling
    pc1, handmade waterblocks,passive cooling, pc2 corsair h50
    Mouse
    logictech mx510s wired
Okay, I'm no expert so I'll go through the basic things I did to speed up one of my laptops when it started acting up.

You've got a dual core right?

Go to Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> System Configuration -> Select 'Boot' tab -> Select 'Advanced Options' and check the number of processors is set to 2 and the maximum memory is set to highest (just in case it's dropped right down.)

If that's all in check, have you got AVG installed? If so, disable it and try booting up again and see if it's any quicker.


Like I say, I'm no expert, but the above solution worked on a very similar sounding problem.
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Dell XPS 720 H2C
    Graphics Card(s)
    GTX 285 Amp! Edition
    Sound Card
    Soundblaster X-Fi
    Keyboard
    Logitech G19
    Mouse
    Predator Trust Gaming
wheelsmith said:
can you run msconfig and select boot logging and apply, then search for ntblog.txt and delete if found. reboot and the paste contents of the new ntblog.txt, that,ll help to see whats stalling.

you have tried system restore and malwave scanning first ?
Click to expand...


Right now everything on the computer is locked up and "Not Responding", once I actually make it to the command prompt/search box I'll get on this. Then I've gotta wait for the computer to restart then hope it lets me jump online... while I'm waiting/hoping for this to work, any other suggestions?
 

My Computer

System One

make a bootable cd/dvd/usb erd comander o/s from this
Free Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Tools Download
its only a demo version but should do the trick, you will need a vista install disk as well.
erd commander with give you access to system repair tools, file managers etc. on some clients pcs just booting with the disk will bring them back to life.
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    home brews
    Motherboard
    pc1 msi k7delta, pc2 asus kn79txd evo
    Memory
    pc1 2gb crucial, pc2 4gb gskill ripjaws
    Graphics Card(s)
    pc1 bfg 7800gs, pc2 shapphire 5770 vapor-x
    Sound Card
    onboard
    PSU
    corsair hx
    Case
    jeantech phong
    Cooling
    pc1, handmade waterblocks,passive cooling, pc2 corsair h50
    Mouse
    logictech mx510s wired
I made a Startup Repair Disk and it couldn't fix the issue. It tried a System Restore and it didn't work either. A screen came up saying "Startup Repair cannot repair this computer automatically" and prompts me to send Microsoft information. I clicked the detail problems and this came up:

Code: 
Problem Signature
     Problem Event Name:    StartupRepairV2
     Problem Signature 01:  External Media
     Problem Signature 02:  6.0.6000.16386.6.0.6001.18000
     Problem Signature 03:  3
     Problem Signature 04:  196611
     Problem Signature 05:  NoBootFailure
     Problem Signature 06:  NoBootFailure
     Problem Signature 07:  0
     Problem Signature 08:  0
     Problem Signature 09:  unknown
     Problem Signature 10:  1168
     OS Version:            6.0.6000.2.0.0.256.1
     Locale ID:             1033
This doesn't mean anything to me but maybe one of you can interpret this? I'm gonna try to get a boot log up here sometime soon



EDIT: After I ran the System Repair, I tried to boot Vista again. After the black Windows loading screen did it's thing forever, a black screen displaying something like "1244/1244 Registry..." appeared for a short bit. I wasn't able to read exactly what it said but I do know the beginning of it started with 1244/1244 Registry
 

My Computer

System One

A boot log isn't gonna happen, I can't open msconfig. The computer freezes after you start clicking things, I can't type into the search box without it freezing and I can't manually find it without something "not responding".


I think I'm just gonna make a LiveCD, save the various pictures and document onto USB, and perform a clean install of Vista once I track down a Vista disk.
 

My Computer

System One

Okay.

Go to command prompt: sfc /scannow

also try to run chkdsk

disable anti virus

do that all in safe mode

go into safemode, hopefully u will be able to go into msconfig and all those kinds of progs.

follow the tutorial: http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/81176-speed-up-performance-vista.html?filter[11]=Performance Maintenance

also try to update windows to sp2, i think this is a driver problem.

and, how fast does your hard drive spin?
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Hp pavillion a6110n
    CPU
    amd athlon 64 x2 live! 4400+
    Memory
    4 gigs 3.3 useable
    Graphics Card(s)
    Finally! SAPPHIRE 100283L Radeon HD 5770 (Juniper XT) 1GB 12
    Monitor(s) Displays
    generic pnp monitor
    Screen Resolution
    1280x1024
    Hard Drives
    7.2k rpm
    1 linux ubuntu partition
    1 vista partition
    1recovery partition
    1 windows 7 partition
    1linux swap partition
    PSU
    500W, antc earthwatts EA500
    Case
    normal black case
    Cooling
    fans
    Keyboard
    saitek cyborg gaming keyboard
    Mouse
    logitech mouse (small to fit hand perfectly)
    Internet Speed
    dsl
    Other Info
    2.3 ghz amd
Alright, the scannow failed and showed this message "Windows Resource Protection could not perform the requested operation." and I had a free command line afterwards. I ran the chkdsk and everything checked fine... except the very end. "Failed to transfer logged messages to the event log with status 50."

I did all of this through the Command Prompt you get when you run the System Recovery Options from the System Recovery Disk I made earlier


EDIT: I managed to get the laptop to start in Safe Mode with Command Prompt. I reran the scannow command and it's been hung at 29% in the Verification Process for sometime now. The cursor is still blinking at the end of the line so I don't think the computer is froze..
 
Last edited:

My Computer

System One

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Hp pavillion a6110n
    CPU
    amd athlon 64 x2 live! 4400+
    Memory
    4 gigs 3.3 useable
    Graphics Card(s)
    Finally! SAPPHIRE 100283L Radeon HD 5770 (Juniper XT) 1GB 12
    Monitor(s) Displays
    generic pnp monitor
    Screen Resolution
    1280x1024
    Hard Drives
    7.2k rpm
    1 linux ubuntu partition
    1 vista partition
    1recovery partition
    1 windows 7 partition
    1linux swap partition
    PSU
    500W, antc earthwatts EA500
    Case
    normal black case
    Cooling
    fans
    Keyboard
    saitek cyborg gaming keyboard
    Mouse
    logitech mouse (small to fit hand perfectly)
    Internet Speed
    dsl
    Other Info
    2.3 ghz amd
I had to take a break yesterday, spent almost 9 hours trying to work on the computer. I can't get the laptop to make a log of the bootup (It can never find ntblog.txt)

I just ran chkdsk and this came up:

Code: 
The Volume Bitmap is incorrect.
Windows found problems with the file system.
Run CHKDSK with the /F <fix> option to correct these.

I'm going to run the fix option here in a bit and I'm going to retry the sfc/scannow command too
 

My Computer

System One

Okay, run the fix option, tell me what happens next.
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Hp pavillion a6110n
    CPU
    amd athlon 64 x2 live! 4400+
    Memory
    4 gigs 3.3 useable
    Graphics Card(s)
    Finally! SAPPHIRE 100283L Radeon HD 5770 (Juniper XT) 1GB 12
    Monitor(s) Displays
    generic pnp monitor
    Screen Resolution
    1280x1024
    Hard Drives
    7.2k rpm
    1 linux ubuntu partition
    1 vista partition
    1recovery partition
    1 windows 7 partition
    1linux swap partition
    PSU
    500W, antc earthwatts EA500
    Case
    normal black case
    Cooling
    fans
    Keyboard
    saitek cyborg gaming keyboard
    Mouse
    logitech mouse (small to fit hand perfectly)
    Internet Speed
    dsl
    Other Info
    2.3 ghz amd
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top