Should a Advent 5611 be this slow?

[Halloween Jack]

Hi folks,

I just bought a Advent 5611 from a friend.

It was very slow and in a bit of a mess, clutter wise.

I have reformatted the drive and reinstalled Win 7 64.

It still seems very slow, but then I'm not used to Laptops.

I'm not doing anything too demanding, just internet, email and itunes music. It seems to take 4mins sometimes to launch Chrome for instance. Usually after standby. Even opening a new tab seems slow.

Does this sound normal or could there be a hard drive issue?

Should I expect a sluggish experience especially when opening progs and jumping between 2 or 3?

Thanks

[zipper]

Does it have just 1 GB memory?

[scatman839]

Is the cpu underclocking because of a blocked fan or bad heatsink contact?

Take the hard drive out and try using it on your pc, that would give you an idea if it's that.

[Halloween Jack]

Ah yes, 1GB. I think I've heard Vista and 7 need 2GB to not struggle. Is this the case?

It came with Vista mind you...

I don't really fancy removing the HDD. I wouldn't know how to test it once it was connected to the desktop anyway.


Cheers

[scatman839]

windows 7 ideally needs 4gb, xp would be fine with 2gb though.

you would test it by using hd tune http://www.hdtune.com/

[zipper]

My Win7 takes about 2 -2.5GB when running for example a couple of browser windows -on 1 GB it must swap onto the HD all the time and so it's slow.

[Halloween Jack]

Thanks all. Sounds like memory.

I will try hdtune to see if anything is there....

Any idea how easy it is to update memory in a laptop? does it just plug in as easily as desk top?

Not sure if it's worth the cost though... guess I'm looking at £50 or so?

Cheers

[scatman839]

Well, that laptop can only be upgraded to 2gb maximum, ddr2.

http://www.uktsupport.co.uk/advent/l...9115bottom.jpg

open the memory bit

any ddr2 SO-DIMM should do