Problem encountered, need assistance.
Problem encountered, need assistance.
He got me a used laptop from his job, and the IT person suggested just installing a fresh Windows setup. I made a flash drive and started the installation. It took some time, but it worked eventually. Now it’s stuck on the screen with the Windows logo and spinning dots for a long time. After a while the dots freeze and the mouse appears, but nothing responds. It seems to be a Dell Latitude E6500. I tried unplugging the USB drive a few times, maybe that helped? It probably isn’t critical, but I’d like it to function properly. Thanks.
Based on these details, it seems unlikely the device will start in Windows 10. It might only run Core 2 Duo Mobile, which is a different operating system.
e6500, awesome. So did you mount the HDD correctly? And that being said did you use a HDD or SSD? If SSD or 7mm HDD, they fit in the caddy in a particular way that can be difficult to nail first time. What CPU? I'm imagining around 2.4ghz mark I have a huge suite of Latitudes from this era, including an E6400 and E5500. That's not the issue, Core 2 Duo mobile are still quite strong.
I accept what you say. One of the university's labs had 2330M equipped laptops running XP because of old software that would have been very costly to relicense, and they could only manage basic tasks like startup checks.
That's quite interesting. You don't have to just take my word though, here's this for you: They all boot just fine, and rather quickly too. Granted I've installed fast SSDs in each one but still, they're incredibly capable machines. Using a bog standard Chromebook you'd find in schools nowadays back to back with one of these, you'd pick the Core 2 Duo. Feel like the slowness was more down to XP not taking advantage of all the CPU had to offer.
That's correct. Hard drives on laptops will significantly slow down any system running above DOS.
Navigate through the BIOS settings. When the Dell logo shows during startup, press F12 to access BIOS configuration, which should appear under System Information. Any processor in the E6400 series is capable of booting Windows 10 quickly.