Re: Toshiba Satellite A200 - RAM testing

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Tomek typed on Thu, 01 Jan 2009 20:32:43 +0100:
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Tomek typed on Mon, 29 Dec 2008 19:42:34 +0100:
I have Toshiba Satellite A200 1N7 laptop and I have a problem
with very long time system booting. Probably the reason of that
long time booting is testing the RAM memory. I've checked the
BIOS. I had Phoenix ISKAA BIOS Ver. 1.7 and I updated it to ver.
2.5 but I still can not turn of the RAM memory test. I have 1 GB
memory and it takes a lot of time to test it during booting. I
can not find in BIOS where to turn it of. Or any other way to do
it. I've found the option in BIOS for faster booting, but it didn't
solve my problem with testing the RAM memory.

If anybody can help me, please give my any advice how to solve my
problem.
Thanks.
How long does the BIOS take before your OS starts to load? And
what OS are you booting? And how long does this take?
I'm using MS Vista (32) Home Premium. Testing the Ram memory takes
about 90 seconds. After that OS starts to load, it takes about 70
seconds. I have the other laptop (HP Pavilion dv9308nr) and it
starts in only
40 seconds (also with MS Vista 32bit Home Premium).
The HP laptop doesn't have this problem with fast booting. It also
has Phoenix BIOS.
Have you swapped in another memory chip to compare times?
Reseated the current chip?
Yes 90 seconds is way too long. One would think you could turn off
the memory test in the BIOS, but maybe not. Checking the memory
should only take a second anyway. And I agree with GG, something is
wrong. First place to look at is the RAM itself like GG suggested.

I've replaced the RAM modules with modules from HP laptop. Toshiba
still boots very long time - no change at all. So I belive the RAM
modules are not the reason of that long booting.

You convinced me too! Roland Franzius suggested that the hard drive has bad sectors on it and which is the cause of the delay. He might have something there. Can you throw another hard drive in there?

If a spare HD isn't available, try booting directly from a Linux Live CD, bypassing the HDD in the boot config.
You may be able to get a better sense of where the delay occurs in your bootup, by seeing how fast the system hits on the CD drive.
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