Dell Inspiron 1721 Laptop - Vista Home Premium - Processor incorrect
I am fairly good with OSs but Vista has me bummed on this laptop:
The unit is a Dell Inspiron 1721
2 GB DDR2 633 memory
160GB Hard Drive.
AMD Turion x2 2.2GHZ processor. TL somethign
In the systems settings, after a full reinstall because I hated all the
problems (fully erased hdd) and reinstalled Vista Home Premium, it says
776mhz instead of the 2.2 ghz
It is plugged into the ac power. All I have is the drivers and no software
installed.
Is there a driver I need to install in Vista for the Turion X2 processors
like you had to do in XP?
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Andrew Harris
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Re: Dell Inspiron 1721 Laptop - Vista Home Premium - Processor incorrect
Inspiron comes with about 3 CD's that have all the software and drivers you
need. I ordered one for wifey - MacBook has been abandoned as a useless
iPiece of iCrap - and it has 1 OEM OS CD, 1 Inspiron Drivers CD, and 1
Roxio 9 CD.
Re: Dell Inspiron 1721 Laptop - Vista Home Premium - Processor incorrect
Yea I did do that drivers CD, but minus the mcafee, works 9.0 and roxio. It
only being used for law documents.
Right now the machine is ready, but SLOW! It takes it ten minutes to boot.
I did a GWSCAN and DFT on the drive (HDD) and it passes.
Memory passes as well.
I don't know what else to do.
Re: Dell Inspiron 1721 Laptop - Vista Home Premium - Processor incorrect
In article <45874593-DD77-4844-A350-7B94C28D152C@microsoft.com>,
Andrew Harris <aharris46@tx.rr.com> wrote:
Ummmm, have you checked the Power settings to see if they're set to
High Performance? Right click the Power icon and start with Options...
Re: Dell Inspiron 1721 Laptop - Vista Home Premium - Processor incorrect
I have done that as well.
Re: Dell Inspiron 1721 Laptop - Vista Home Premium - Processor incorrect
Hmmm,
did you check your Vista score after reinstall?
The slow processor might be due to either incorrect settings in BIOS or
power saving schedule.
At this moment, I would bring the system at the original OEM state, check
what drivers are running, Vista score, error messages in Event Viewer; then,
I would try to uninstall the crapware to slim down whatever I don't need.
If not contenet, then I'd try again a clean install. Also, there should be a
setting in BIOS for faster harddrive - worth trying.
Another thing to try: Go Control Panel/Adm Tools//Event Viewer/Application
and Services Logs/Microsoft/Windows/Diagnostics-Performance and read what
boot errors you might have.
A slow boot might be caused by Bluetooth, network drives, media center and
so on - services that try to setup the hardware, connect to networks and so
on.
You might also have some AV program scanning the hdd.
Re: Dell Inspiron 1721 Laptop - Vista Home Premium - Processor incorrect
I can't tell you the original score because my mother blew away that
partition trying to install XP and I told her not to.
Its a bare bones install
ATI drivers, wireless drivers, nic drivers, no bluetooth (doesnt come with
the model we have)
It was SLOW after all that.
I then added Kaspersky and paid for it. Same speed.
All the crap ware is gone.. no McAfee trials.. etc etc.
Re: Dell Inspiron 1721 Laptop - Vista Home Premium - Processor inc
i got the same problem,but both amd and microsoft can give me any
help.........
Re: Dell Inspiron 1721 Laptop - Vista Home Premium - Processor inc
Microsoft Does NOT Create (Develop) Device Driver's Of Any Kind, Just FYI.