HP Compaq 6710b is my oldest laptop given by ONGC way back in 2006. The laptop had windows vista initially and having a Intel core2 duo CPU @ 2.2 GHz with 2 GB RAM. It was brand new but slow as hell.
Later , installed Windows 10 under the magnanimous program of Microsoft who did not allow upgrade to Win 10 from vista but allowed to install it without activation. Updates continued to happen , everything happened, but it continued to be slow as hell.
Then, ONGC under its EPP(somewhere in 2014) allowed purchase of another HP laptop with 4 GB RAM , however this time we purchased the laptop instead of the L1 route earlier. 6710b continued working as the latest laptop evolved from win 8 to win 8.1 , windows 10 and finally to the latest April Update of Win 10 pro. However, 6710b continued to be slow as hell.
In 2018, ONGC EPP, I purchased a powerhorse, Asus FX series 16 GB RAM, Latest Nvdia card(1060 I guess), Intel 7th gen HQ CPU, 7200 rpm 1TB HDD and 128 GB SSD. Out of concern for the geriatric laptop, I purchased 2 sticks of 2 GB RAM for Rs 2000/- in total to give a 4 GB upgrade to the 6710b, However, 6710b continued to be slow as hell.
Finally, decided to give 6710b exit to windows by totally removing windows and installing Ubuntu 18.04 released this April. Now this old laptop is decent and not slow as hell
However, it did take some time to boot (3 minutes), which was odd, when the laptop is not slow as hell, why should the boot be slow as hell?
(1) here is the error it threw up during boot
(4) Added GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet video=SVIDEO-1:d" and removed "splash"
(5) saved and sudo update-grub
Now , boot time reduced to 20 seconds :)
Old laptop is no longer damn slow as hell :)
Later , installed Windows 10 under the magnanimous program of Microsoft who did not allow upgrade to Win 10 from vista but allowed to install it without activation. Updates continued to happen , everything happened, but it continued to be slow as hell.
Then, ONGC under its EPP(somewhere in 2014) allowed purchase of another HP laptop with 4 GB RAM , however this time we purchased the laptop instead of the L1 route earlier. 6710b continued working as the latest laptop evolved from win 8 to win 8.1 , windows 10 and finally to the latest April Update of Win 10 pro. However, 6710b continued to be slow as hell.
In 2018, ONGC EPP, I purchased a powerhorse, Asus FX series 16 GB RAM, Latest Nvdia card(1060 I guess), Intel 7th gen HQ CPU, 7200 rpm 1TB HDD and 128 GB SSD. Out of concern for the geriatric laptop, I purchased 2 sticks of 2 GB RAM for Rs 2000/- in total to give a 4 GB upgrade to the 6710b, However, 6710b continued to be slow as hell.
Finally, decided to give 6710b exit to windows by totally removing windows and installing Ubuntu 18.04 released this April. Now this old laptop is decent and not slow as hell
However, it did take some time to boot (3 minutes), which was odd, when the laptop is not slow as hell, why should the boot be slow as hell?
(1) here is the error it threw up during boot
Googled and got to know that it is a bug and a workaround was available.
(2)sudo nano /etc/default/grub
(3)
(5) saved and sudo update-grub
Now , boot time reduced to 20 seconds :)
Old laptop is no longer damn slow as hell :)
Note: Also came to know that boot menu can be displayed by pressing shift during boot and pressing E key against a kernel entry allows to edit it and boot with the edited entry to test before making changes permanent as mentioned in steps (2) onwards
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Thanks, saved my day.
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