Hi all-

My tr2 was always slow to start up but the other day it got so bad.  what would cause this and how can i fix this?  basically after i sign in with my pw it stays onb the xp blue screen that say loading profile or prefrences (something like that) for like 3-4 mins then it shows my desktop and then takes more time to load uop everything.  what causes this?  i hate it!  should i do a restore?

thanks

Sounds problematic….it could be corruption, signs of a failing hard disk, or some rogue program/driver holding up the boot process.

You may want to run Bootvis.exe and run a boot check to see if there’s any device driver that’s holding up the boot process. Bootvis.exe isn’t included with XP so you’ll need to download it and run it.

The worst case scenario is that you may have a failing hard disk. If a clean reinstall fixes the problem then maybe it’s not but if it is, then the problem may still exist. A reinstall will probably fix any corruption you may have as well. A scanning of the disk may fix some corruption and also let you know if there’s other hardware problems. Right click on the boot partition inside Windows Explorer -> Tools -> Error Checking. Click on both options to automatically fix and scan for surface errors.

[quote author=“gr00vy0ne”]Sounds problematic….it could be corruption, signs of a failing hard disk, or some rogue program/driver holding up the boot process.

You may want to run Bootvis.exe and run a boot check to see if there’s any device driver that’s holding up the boot process. Bootvis.exe isn’t included with XP so you’ll need to download it and run it.

The worst case scenario is that you may have a failing hard disk. If a clean reinstall fixes the problem then maybe it’s not but if it is, then the problem may still exist. A reinstall will probably fix any corruption you may have as well. A scanning of the disk may fix some corruption and also let you know if there’s other hardware problems. Right click on the boot partition inside Windows Explorer -> Tools -> Error Checking. Click on both options to automatically fix and scan for surface errors.

Hi Groovy-

I recently did a fresh install so i would hate to do it again as it didnt go so smooth for me!

I did do a scanning and after that it booted up better but the scan took so long i didnt see the results ( i walked away for a while) how do i see what it found and corrected if anything?

lastly should i still do the bootvis thing?

THANKS!!!!!!

CHKDSK runs before anything bootvis will affect loads. I’m still of the opinion that your HD is headed for the big TR in the sky. Keep regular backups of your data.

No, I don’t think you should do bootvis and I too am worried that your drive may be on the downward side of its life. It’s just everything you’re mentioning is setting off alarms in my head based on my previous experience with HDD problems.

Definitely make sure everything is backed up and look for more suspicious behavior. If it’s under warranty, you may need to wait for a problem to actually happen or you might want to call Sony Support and tell them you’re having all sorts of problems. You may need to humor them and do the “system restore” over the phone and tell them it’s not working. It may encourage them to simply swap in a new hard disk when it’s sent in for service.

Thanks to both of you for your input and help (MUCH APPRECIATED)! 

I will take on your advice and back it all up.  It is still under warranty and you are so right about the warranty they wont really do anything till it probably doesnt work anymore.  It seems they will send you on restore, reinstall etc etc etc before they swap anything.

Thanks again!!

Wabbitt

I got the some trouble with slow speed also, here is what I have done.

After doing my last reinstall, since I found my computer was still slow, I try to chase what was the problem.

What I’ve done :
- I’ve install an application call CCleaner, to clean of useless files on my computer.
- I’ve run, Spybot to finish the clean
- I’ve run chkdsk on both partitions.
- I’ve done an unfragment on both partitions too
- Full scan with Norton Antivirus (useful since I found I had a fuc.. trojan comes from nowhere since my antivirus is always switch on).

After all this, I found my computer was running much better than before and specially the boot. My thoughts about all this, is that when you do a reinstall, for whatever reason, the chkdsk is really useful (specially when you use the recovery disk). Also, since I always installed a bunch of application with my reinstall, an unfragment is also useful. At the end, I have the feeling that Norton Antivirus is doing some crap until he proceed with a full scan of the computer. He seem more quite since, but not completely sure about this.

At the end, I found my TR is running faster with battery remove when plugged on AC than with it. I think I heard about this behaviour on S Series, but I was not sure about TR. Of course, I didn’t make benchmark about this, but just a feeling.

Now I am more happy with my TR, since he recover some speed. 

jchoco….......THANKS I will try what you some of what you mention and report back.  much appreciated.

This is a bit of a long shot, but I did think of something else that can be causing your problem.

Do you connect to a network? Did you map a drive and leave “Reconnect at login” checked? Sometimes Windows goes looking for these drives and takes quite a while to time out when you aren’t on the network. If this is the issue, you will see a box in the lower right of you screen that says Windows could not connect all network drives. (At least, with XP SP2).