Satellite Pro A300-28R: slow boot and freezing on Explorer/Internet

I have recently bought a Satellite Pro A300-28R and I am quite disappointed about the performance.
1) From the specs it looks like a decent laptop but with booting time of about 3 minutes, "please wait" it is surely not impressing me given the fact that i have not installed anything yet...
2) I will try to uninstall applications like tempro but still I am puzzled by the slow reaction on internet pages.
For example when i go on google and start typing something most of the times the cursor freezes and i have to wait a few seconds before I am able to see what i am typing.
I have only bought it last Friday and I have not used much but surely a bit of a disappointment so far.
Any ideas why the cursor freezes on google or on the internet explorer toolbar?
for info i am using Vista Business OS and Internet explorer
any help welcome

Hello
About slow boot you can read very interesting and useful thread under http://forums.computers.toshiba-europe.com/forums/thread.jspa?messageID=134947
I hope this will help you to understand why this can happen.
After first start you can be faced with this behaviour. Few days updates will be downloaded and installed in the background and you will notice high HDD activity. These activities can slow down notebook performance and what you can notice is this slow typing reaction or freezing video play.
So my advice is to disable automatic updates and set it when updates are available you should get notification but you can start it manually. These all possible vista updates installation is for me big mistake because if you check available updates many of them are optional and some of them are driver updates (3 of them) these updates must not be installed.
Maybe you should install recovery image again. don't connect it to internet and do what is described in posted thread. After optimizing preinstalled OS change settings for Windows update and connect it to internet. Check list of available updates and install important and recommended stuff only.
I do always so and I am happy with my Satellite P200 and new A300. Both of them runs well and I am satisfied with performance.

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So once again: notebook runs fine using battery power but reboot always (in the loop????) when AC adaptor is connected. But using Live CD the notebook runs ok even if the AC adaptor is connected.
Right???
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If the unit runs ok using Live CD, then this means that this cannot be BIOS issue because BIOS does not depend on installed system.
Therefore in my opinion its definitely not a BIOS problem.
I think you should firstly disable the automatic reboot when an system crashes Win 7 is configured to restart immediately when a BSOD happens and this happens too fast to see the error I think you mean this by automatic reboot
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Hi
If the SATA mode is set to compatible then your HDD will always slow down the notebook performance!
> I have tried setting the SATA controller to AHCI and download the driver from Intel. Pressing the F6 during the initialization of Windows setup. Before I reached the window where I can choose to install Windows, Repair and Exit, the "Screen of Death" (blue screen) appears. Telling about the hard drive.
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Note; there are different packages which supports different chipsets!
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Generally you are right but the point is that you have said that this issue doesnt happen always but sometimes.
> Sometimes, (not always: may be it depends on which program is running) when trying to put the computer in stand-by or in hibernate mode, it doesn't stop
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Hello
Im not a technician but for me it sounds like that fan connector is malfunctioning if you have already replaced the fan and therefore it would be necessary to replace the mainboard
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Hi
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[System Restore: frequently asked questions|http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/help/517d3b8e-3379-46c1-b479-05b30d6fb3f01033.mspx#EIEAC]

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Indeed, the usage of the same CPUs which were used previously in other Satellite Pro A300 should be possible.
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_Penryn CPUs are:_
Intel Core2 Duo Processor (800MHz)
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T7800 2.6GHz
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Hello
I have just bought a Toshiba Satellite Pro A300 PSAG9E. It came pre-installed with Vista, and also an upgrade DVD to windows 7 professional (which I have installed).
I tried starting up the machine this morning, however for some reason it wouldn 't boot. All that happened was that the initial toshiba screen would appear, followed by a frozen black screen (showing an underscore in the top left corner).
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The issue seemed to be related to the battery. At first I was trying to boot the laptop (with only the battery connected) however it would not start. I dont think this has anything to do with the amount of charge in the battery, as it did have more than enough in it. I then tried booting it with just the power cable (and no battery). For some reason this seemed to do the trick, and the laptop was able to boot. The laptop now also boots when both battery and cable attached.
Why is this happening?
The reason I am interested in finding out, is because this laptop has given me a few problems already. The laptop has also been bought very recently, so I can still return it for a refund (which I am seriously considering!).
What should I do guys? Any help/advice you could give about this would be very much appreciated.
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>All that happened was that the initial toshiba screen would appear, followed by a frozen black screen (showing an underscore in the top left corner).
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I used the Zonealarm is the past and I was not really satisfied because this software locked everything and most applications didnt work properly even after new configuration! Finally I removed this software and I noticed further advantage; my notebook boots much faster!!
I think this software would lock the cam software too.
> Now c:\program files\ camera assistant software for Toshiba has disappeared altogether and the camera assistant panel no longer appears on the side of the desktop.
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