Pc Takes A Very Long Time To Complete The Boot Up Sequence

Replies: 5 | Post Date: February 7th, 2007, 02:57 PM | User: Seanf | Forums: forums.devshed.com
My daughter has a dell inspiron 1150 laptop which seems to have some sort of memory conflict of sort. It takes a very long time to complete the boot-up sequence and then, for no apparent reason simply slow down to a halt when opening a program (microsoft word, for example). The fan starts working overtime and processing performance slows to a halt. The task manager shows that most of the resources are being consumed by the system idle process. I have run spybot and adaware and mcafee anti-virus and nothing one turns turns up any problems. Any suggestions as to where to look next?

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