Computer Acting Slow

[Mind_001]

My mother's computer is acting really slow. Her system is:

 

Linux Mint 18.1

Lenovo ThinkCentre MJECWB6

Intel C2D E7400 @ 2.86Ghz

4GB RAM (think it's DDR2)

Samsung 840 128Gb SSD

Optical drive

 

In BIOS, I have Quick Boot enabled, and Network on Boot disabled.

 

I looked through everything else, nothing else looks wonky.

 

It takes 1 MINUTE for it to boot into the desktop. Now, with a SSD, this should not happen. I don't think the SSD is to blame here.

 

I'll try a memtest later today, but I don't know what is wrong, I troubleshooted about everything I can think of. (minus the memtest)

 

[Astarore]

Check her running processes in task manager and start up items maybe? More than likely,there's a ton of programs running in the background.

[Mind_001]

Nope, nothing out of the ordinary but general Mint processes.

 

I ran a memtest earlier, no errors, so i can rule that out.

 

I think it's something with the software. I'll check it out tomorrow...

[T9987]

Try running a full system scan with your anti-virus.  It can't hurt and there could be something that it finds that's slowing things down.

[r34lj4k3]

Is top showing anything hogging the resources? Does lsof | grep <mount point> show anything out of the ordinary?

[Mind_001]

11 hours ago, T9987 said:

Try running a full system scan with your anti-virus.  It can't hurt and there could be something that it finds that's slowing things down.

I don't have any AV on there. I don't think a virus is harming it.

6 hours ago, r34lj4k3 said:

Is top showing anything hogging the resources? Does lsof | grep <mount point> show anything out of the ordinary?

It slows down just after Grub. Then it goes on it's way into Mint.

[T9987]

3 minutes ago, Mind_001 said:

I don't have any AV on there. I don't think a virus is harming it.

 

The only reason I say that is because it is not your computer and you don't know what websites were visited on it.

[Mind_001]

5 minutes ago, T9987 said:

The only reason I say that is because it is not your computer and you don't know what websites were visited on it.

My Mom is good about not going to xyz.com...

[T9987]

9 minutes ago, Mind_001 said:

My Mom is good about not going to xyz.com...

Ok.  Your fine then.  I sort of figured that since she has a Linux computer.

[Mind_001]

8 hours ago, T9987 said:

Ok.  Your fine then.  I sort of figured that since she has a Linux computer.

She has a Linux computer because her last computer went the way of the dodo. And I had no Windows 7 licenses. And she would freak at Windows 10. So I put Mint on there.

[Mind_001]

Oh, I fixed my Mom's computer. 

 

OK, this is creepy, now. It had NOTHING to do with the OS. I actually ran Mint 19 (on different SSD) on there, SAME thing.

 

S O... I was noticing the BIOS was beeping, it was due to some misconfigurations, that I cant find out for the life of me. So, I set the BIOS to default/factory settings. After that....

 

BANG!!!!!!!

 

Mint 18.1 (her old OS) loads in 10 seconds FLAT! I'm like, whoa... The hell I do?

 

Frankly, there was something screwed in the BIOS. Just never realized that...

[ZacoAttaco]

9 hours ago, Mind_001 said:

Frankly, there was something screwed in the BIOS. Just never realized that...

Glad to hear you got it fixed