bios

[Fortissimo]

I have a toshiba satellite and upgrade from vista 32 to 7 64...my start up takes ages!!
I though was the bios, but when I try to flash my bios says same version or newer already exist so it will not be changed.
hope you can help.

 

[bassfisher6522]

You might want to have a look at this....

How to update the BIOS on Toshiba notebooks

 

[bassfisher6522]

I would check with Toshiba on your specific make and model and see if there is a BIOS update available.

 

[Fortissimo]

the bios I try to flash is recomanded from toshiba

 

[Fortissimo]

I just realise , takes even longer to shutdown

 

[alphanumeric]

Did you compare the version number of the new BIOS to what is already on the PC? maybe it already has the latest version? How much RAM is installed? SATA hard drive? If yes you may want to see what mode its set to in BIOS. If its in IDE mode switching to AHCI may speed things up. You have to make a registry edit if you switch to AHCI though or windows won't boot up. So just check to see what mode its set to first. The BIOS boot order etc can slow things down too if its not set to the hard drive as first device.

 

[Fortissimo]

Just spoke with toshiba and they told me that I have boot problem because my laptop was designed to run with vista...Is this really the case? As I said before my laptop rocks when is on, only shutdown and startup takes ages!!
Can you advice please#?

 

[Golden]

my laptop was designed to run with vista...Is this really the case?

Are you able to run this:

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/180324-system-info-see-your-system-specs.html

We need some information about your laptop to be able to give any advice

 

[Fortissimo]

system spec done...hope you can help

 

[cyclic]

I think your slow start and shutdown has more to do with the software running at boot time (which also need closing down before shutdown can complete).

Can you post a screen shot of this,
go to the start menu and type msconfig in the run line, press enter a panel will arrive, click the tab for start up and we can see what's going on.

Only update your Bios because you need to take advantage of a hardware fix or OS compatibility, there are other far safer things you can do and I don't believe it will make the slightest difference.

BTW if was designed to run Vista it will be fine with Win7.

 

[Fortissimo]

 

[Golden]

Hi,

That hardware should be capable of running Windows 7. In the Services tab of MSCONFIG uncheck everything except the Microsoft services, then click Apply and reboot your system. Does it startup any quicker?

Regards,
Golden

 

[Fortissimo]

I did how sugested but still takes around 15min to shutdown and startup all together

 

[Golden]

What anti-virus is installed?

Please run the following to gather information about your start-up time - do NOT apply the fixes! Simply let it run, then post back the information here.
https://www.soluto.com/

 

[Fortissimo]

Thank you very much for taking the time to help

 

[Golden]

Yep!!! Thats why I asked about the anti-virus you were using.............uninstall Norton, and replace it with free MSE.

Now does your PC startup/shutdown any quicker?

Regards,
Golden

 

[Fortissimo]

I did as you sugested, even though I had shutdown/startup problem before I had installed norton...will check is problem is solved now and let you know.

 

[Fortissimo]

still have same prob...

 

[Golden]

The best I can think of now is to run a full Startup/Shutdown trace using this tutorial:

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorial...up-shutdown-sleep-hibernate-reboot-trace.html

This is a specialist area, so I'll ask Cluberti to follow up on this.

Regards,
Golden

 

[cluberti]

I'll keep an eye out.