FS195XP running slow

[Gman1971]

Hi,

I've just bought myself a FS195XP and the first thing I've noticed when I start it up is how bleeding slow it is. Is this normal? Ok I know it's only got 512Mb RAM while my desktop has 1.25Gb but the chip should be faster or at least I thought it would be.

Secondly the sound on the laptop. It seems incredibly crackly and choppy.

Does anybody have any advice on these problems. I'm hoping that I can do something to fix these things as I did really buy this for game playing and watching DVD's as well as the normal stuff.

Cheers:smileygrin:

[seb21__]

I've just bought myself a FS195XP and the first thing I've noticed when I start it up is how bleeding slow it is. Is this normal? Ok I know it's only got 512Mb RAM while my desktop has 1.25Gb but the chip should be faster or at least I thought it would be.

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Secondly the sound on the laptop. It seems incredibly crackly and choppy.

You must explain it a little bit more.

[rich912]

I think it was Kee-Lo that advised, recently, the first thing that you should do on receiving your new Vaio is a System Restore. Good advice.

[kee-lo_]

I think it was Kee-Lo that advised, recently, the first thing that you should do on receiving your new Vaio is a System Restore. Good advice.

Yeah it was me, cheers.

[Gman1971]

Cheers guys,

Sony don't advertise that graphics spec very clearly do they:smileysad: I don't suppose it can be upgraded?

So upgrading to 1Gb should help. I sort of figured that would be the case.

The sound problem may I suppose be tied to the available system resource. It's a bit of a worry that an out of the box machine would behave this way. What I meant by the previous post was that any sound the system produces has crackling noises coming out of the speakers and also it stalls on sounds, so you might get one note playing for longer than it should be(if that makes sense).

Kee-Lo, a system restore as soon as you get the machine? Definitely starting to think I've thrown money away on this machine:smileyshocked: ah but it looked so nice and the specs suggested it would be a good machine:smileyworried:

Thanks for all your advice guys. Much appreciated.

[robpaxton]

A lot of the extra time spent during startup will be caused by the relatively slow hard disk drive. If you can, get rid of some of the startup programs and look towards using a leaner, faster, less resource hungry internet security suite than NIS.

[kee-lo_]

Doing the recovery also means you can make your own partitions too

[Eugenepang]

just dont forget to burn a copy of the recovery cd / dvd first hehehehe

[kee-lo_]

Yes, make sure you do.

[Gman1971]

Yes burning the recovery disk was about the first thing I did. Apart from being able to create my own partitions would it help with anything else?

Good idea Rob I usually try and exit most TSR programs as soon as I've logged on. Still can't quite bring myself to uninstall Norton just yet:smileyhappy:

Cheers