strange issue w/d600 undocked

Question

My latitude d600 when undocked and connected to wireless network at home runs much slower than when docked on my lan at the office. I am not referring to the connection,, that is fine. I mean the procesoor just drags and drags and it make take 10 mins to boot up compared to a min or two at work. It seems to boot a little faster when i completely disable the wireless connection in the net connections. Examples are stuff like:

click on start menu,,programs expand 5 to 10 secs later
right click on a folder or something in control panel and it just hangs and may or may not respond.
the task maganer does not show a spike in the processor at all though
and sometimes the taskbar will just disappear for minutes at a time.

i am on xp pro sp2

please ,,someone assist

Steve911 · Answer

Is it trying to log on to your work network and can't find it from home?

joeunc · Answer

thanks for replying,,check this thread,,lots of info on the problem I have here: http://forums.us.dell.com/supportforums/board/message?board.id=si_wireless&message.id=11308#M11308

Manh · Answer

In windows there is a docked and undocked profile.  Power settings for both profiles differ.  I would guess that you are probably running Always on, or laptop/portable when you are docked.  So the machine runs fine.   when you are undocked, are you using the same login?  The login is cached when you aren't docked so you don't actually have to be attached to login, therefore you can use the same login/password.  I am asking because you may have something running in one profile that is affecting the speed.  If you are using the same login, when you are undocked, check the power settings, and set it to 'always on', even though its a laptop, it will make sure you are running at the highest speed.  Also update the machine with the latest CPU XP fix, so the machine is running at its best.  Then reboot.    Other than that, there shouldn't be any difference undocked.. I would suggest power, but I am guess you are still plugged in.. does the machine recognize its plugged in when undocked?  Just to make sure the machine isn't running on battery power.  I don't have any other ideas...  Other than a few minor power tweaks, the machine should run the same docked/undocked.

joeunc · Answer

thanks for the reply, I checked my power settings and it was set to "home office/desk"

I changed it to "always on" and every drop down box is set to "Never". The same programs load docked or undocked and it boots slow undocked whether on battery or on power. It only boots slow and I mean only when there is a wireless network card enabled and a signal present. When a wireless card is enabled the bootup can take about 10 minutes and even when the icons appear the computer drags and runs very slowly. If I disable the wireless card ( and I hahve tried two cards ), the dell card and a linksys card the laptop boots up normally and all processed run fine. I then enable the card and my wireless connection comes up. But if I make the mistake of not disabling the wireless commection before shutdown then I am in for trouble the next boot.

I have tried all different wifi settings,,WEP, WPA, Open,,MAC filtering ,,all of them. There is no diffenence.

Where or how to I get the cpu upgrade fix fof the Latitude D600

thanks

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