Laptop is ultra sluggish, must be a hardware problem.

I went through a phase where I kept trying different operating systems, tons of different ones.

After installing different operating systems (alternating between Ubuntu 12.04 and Windows 7), I had installed Ubuntu and everything was super slow to load, GUI, everything. I tried reinstalling, and it took hours when it usually took 30 minutes reading from the disk. I had also tried Windows XP. I have now replaced my laptop's HDD with an SSD and still am having the same problems, please help!

 

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Basically, my Compaq 6910p is very slow to load my OS. I've tried replacing the HDD with an SSD which helped a tiny bit, but the computer is totally unsuable because of how long it takes to load. I'm currently using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. I upgraded the RAM to 4GB and replaced a 5400RPM 160GB HDD with a 160GB SSD. I've tried changing around things in my BIOS and nothing works, please help!

 

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What are you using to compare the speed of this machine with a Cetrino chipset? In other words, are you just assuming that it is running slow, or do you have a similar machine with the same setup running next to it, and running some kind of benchmarking?

I run 12.04 on my netbook and I will tell you this, that it seems to me that it runs faster than Windows 7. Of course I also have a SSD in it, so I perceive that it is faster with Ubuntu now, than it did with the platter drive.

 

Hi Xourii, "must be a hardware problem"
I had a similar problem with my laptop slowing down and even not starting! I also reinstalled windows etc. The problem did not go away until I installed speed fan and noticed that the temps were really high 80+ so i striped the laptop down and cleaned it and it has not been a problem since! The machine is now very responsive. I do not know if this your problem but it worked for me!
My laptop is A Compac Presario A900 with 2 gb of Ram, took the oportunity upgrade to 3gb during stripdown.:cool