Issues with Dell XT2

Hi Guys,

I am running Win7 64bit (Ultimate) on a Dell XT2 and constantly find the machine grinding to a halt. I have software rebuilt the machine on a number of occasions, with no luck, and am running out of patience.

As a machine with an SDD it should not be so slow. Windows can take upto 3 minutes to launch (after I have removed everything I can with Soluto).

Other times, the desktop will just "hang" for upto 30 secs, often with the hard drive light permanently lit.

No ideas what is going on, but any help would be appreciated. Our Enterprise Architect at work had a look and ended up scratching his head as well.

Cheers
Sanj

 

I've got a Crucial C300, which would hang randomly. Disabling Intel LPM helped Solution: C300 Disk Freeze-ups in Windows 7 solved... - Crucial Community

But I do randomly stubble across long start-up delay which I cannot figure out... usually happened when docked with either my PR03X or PR02X.

Should state what SSD you using?

 

Sorry, should have said that I have a Samsung PM800 (128Gb) drive. The machine has 3GB RAM and an intel U9400 processor.

WEI is 3.2 (graphics card is poor) but Disk values are 6.4!

Really not sure what is going on here.

 

Have you tried updating all of your drivers? Usually it's a driver issue, and if you re-install the same problematic drivers on a clean OS, you'll end up with the same problem.

 

Yup, thought of that - but no it didn't work. Thanks anyway,

Any other ideas guys?

 

It's possible that your SSD is defective...have you tried another SSD or HDD with it?

 

Yes you probably have a bad drive, the XT2 uses 1.8" SATA drives IIRC.