I have a Sony Vaio and it locks up on the screen that says SONY for approx 10 minutes. After that everything seems to run fine. I've ran scandisk, disk defragmenter, and even reloaded the operating system and this problem will not go away. I'm thinking something could be off in the bios settings or maybe my motherboard could be damaged. Any suggestions?
2006-07-16 05:32:09 · 8 answers · asked by mr cheesy poof 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
go to Start>Run
type MSCONFIG and hit enter and in system configuration utility go to Startup tab and unckeck unnecessary processes
2006-07-16 05:35:53 · answer #1 · answered by 942 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Startup speed depends on the spec of your machine predominately.
But you can help it speed up by cleaning up the registry and also by removing unwanted/unneccessary applications from the startup (for example Yahoo! IM/MSN, download apps, etc).
It wouldnt be a hardware issue (motherboard fault: if that was broken , it wouldnt work!!).
Laptops tend to be slow anyway, so maybe consider more RAM and look at downloading an Accelerator program from http://www.downloads.com: this will optimise settings for startup.
2006-07-16 05:37:50 · answer #2 · answered by the_dt 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not familiar with names but from description sounds like a computer. What do you have in the Start Up directory? It is assumed that everythign has to be there to run and that is not the case. Everything runs when you need it. Empty your start up directory (mine stays empty) and if you are good, check your msconfig file. Uncheck what you really dont need until you need it (ie music players, photo programs etc)
2006-07-16 05:37:24 · answer #3 · answered by orion_1812@yahoo.com 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have Sony-vaio too. Go to star-all programs and go to the folder called start up. delete anything that says Sony, if this does not work then u must have spyware on your computer.
2006-07-16 05:51:23 · answer #4 · answered by A 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Check your bios and make sure that first boot device is HDD and then click on start - run- msconfig-startup and uncheck antivirus and unwanted applications and press ctrl+alt+del and open task manager and check for running process and kill unwanted services :)
2006-07-16 06:10:34 · answer #5 · answered by ashwin33 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
check the msconfig startup using start>run type in MSCONFIG hit enter.. on startup tab remove unnecessary utilities..
2006-07-16 05:43:55 · answer #6 · answered by Shariq M 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try microsoft's BootVis tool. You can't download it from them anymore, but it can be found on some website or on P2P (limewire, etc)
2006-07-16 07:47:12 · answer #7 · answered by jim.walker0 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
remove it from 'start up' options or go to the software and disable its run at startup.
2006-07-16 05:39:41 · answer #8 · answered by Candy Green 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋