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VAIO extremely slow

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My brother has a Sony VIAO desktop, model VGC-RB34G. I believe it has a P4 3GHz CPU. It feels slower than my Toshiba Satellite laptop with 1.6GHz Celeron processor when it comes to loading up programs. We put in another 512MB DDR, so now it has 1GB total RAM, and that sped things up only slightly. Once programs are up and running, it seems ok, switching between windows is normal, but loading up programs seems painfully slow, like the computers of 10 years ago.

I'm thinking that either the hard drive is extremely crappy, or there is some problem with I/O, either drivers or BIOS settings. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to access the BIOS when I started up the machine, so I have no clue as to the DMA settings, etc.

Does anyone know of any known issues with VIAO desktops, and any possible fixes? Could it be that some Sony bloatware is bogging down the I/O? Something running in the background which slows things down? Maybe even an issue with Windows XP media edition (which is the OS of this computer)?
 
for one , viaos are shit, no offense. and your right the hard drive is probablly slow. try and check to see what hd is in it.
 
Yep, my brother routinely runs spyware/virus checks.

And to forrehmmnd: No offense taken. I personally build my own desktop PCs, I'm not into all of the added garbage that the OEMs install. I built my brother's last PC, but unfortunately I was living out of town, so I couldn't drop by to fix it when he ran into problems, and the shop he took it to couldn't solve his problem (needed both a new PSU and BIOS flash, the old PSU failure corrupted the BIOS, but the moron at the shop put in a PSU that was rated even lower than the one that was too weak to begin with). So, he wound up buying a brand-name PC. :( Faster CPU than his old one, I think it encodes movies faster, but doesn't feel faster when you open programs.
 
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