Dell Inspiron 1721 Laptop - Vista Home Premium - Processor incorrect

[Andrew Harris]

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
10814 Steppington Dr, Apt 3320
Dallas, TX 75230
Cell: 214-870-2000
Home: 214-257-7698

[Phillips]

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.

[Andrew Harris]

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.

[the wharf rat]

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...

[Andrew Harris]

I have done that as well.

[Phillips]

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.

[Andrew Harris]

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.

[kid]

i got the same problem,but both amd and microsoft can give me any
help.........

Microsoft Does NOT Create (Develop) Device Driver's Of Any Kind, Just FYI.

[jraborg]

I had the same problem, after reset 3 times to factory default formating HDD started fine but after 2 4 days becomes slow and gets disconnected from WIFI network, I decided to install http://www.ubuntu.com/ the 64 bit version and now machine flies for windows downloaded the free version from vmware and installed XP so now I can run windows whenever I need it. as well ubuntu.

I hope this helps, if you have any questions feel free to ask.

JR