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Posted: Tue, 13th Mar 2012 19:44 Post subject: Laptop become extremely slow and sluggis : Most likely cause	Quick Quote Quote

Yeah. So i'm trying to figure what the problem truly is on the MSI CR600 laptop of one of my buddy. Basically the issue is that windows become very slow and sluggish after a certain period of use. It was doing that in december so i formatted it and it worked fine for a while but now it started to do it again after about 1 month of use. It started re-doing it while my buddy was coping a 3 gigs folder full of small vids from the an external HDD to the laptop. It crashed and then on the reboot it was very slow , programs are unresponsives/freeze in windows , some error messages appear once in a while ect. A simple task like opening firefox can takes minutes and that if it doesn't freeze and crash windows explorer. For the record it doesn't do it in safe mode although safe mode does feel a bit slower than it should normally. Now i tested the ram with memtest and found no error. Tested the hard drive with chkdisk and then another third party app and it found nothing. So i wonder what the hell can cause this ? Heat ? Driver or windows corruption ? Power supply is dying and not pushing enough power to tte laptop ? Board ? Processor failing ? If this was a desktop i could test it better since i have spare parts laying around but it's a laptop so i'm a bit limited in what i can do. Can you guys give me ideas of additional tests to do aside from the ones i already did ? Or any ideas of what can cause this ? Thanks

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Posted: Tue, 13th Mar 2012 19:58 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

I don't trust the tests you did, so I would boot from the Ultimate Boot CD and first do a low-level HDD check. (Does the hdd have SMART enabled ? Is anything flagged ?) It has various other tests, too. You can also use a heat monitoring app like hwmonitor to see if it overheats with usage.

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Posted: Tue, 13th Mar 2012 20:00 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

Dust if off. It happened on my dads laptop. It was getting to hot and underclocked itself. 3080 \| ps5 pro Sin317-"im 31 years old and still surprised at how much shit comes out of my ass actually ..." SteamDRM-"Call of Duty is the symbol of the true perfection in every aspect. Call of Duty games are like Mozart's/Beethoven's symphonies" deadpoetic-"are you new to the cyberspace?"

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Posted: Tue, 13th Mar 2012 20:16 Post subject:

VGAdeadcafe wrote:

I don't trust the tests you did, so I would boot from the Ultimate Boot CD and first do a low-level HDD check. (Does the hdd have SMART enabled ? Is anything flagged ?)

It has various other tests, too. You can also use a heat monitoring app like hwmonitor to see if it overheats with usage.

Will try Ultimate Boot CD (i'm assuming it's Iren ??) and see if anything comes up. As for SMART i'm not sure , will check it out.

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Posted: Tue, 13th Mar 2012 20:20 Post subject:

KillerCrocker wrote:

Dust if off. It happened on my dads laptop. It was getting to hot and underclocked itself.

Looking for dust was one of the first thing i did. I don't see any vent being clogged up with dust (there is some but it doesn't seem enough to do anything). I didn't open it though so i guess i will do and see if there aren't more crap laying around.

The problem could look like something underclocking would do although it must have underclocked it a lot for the laptop to become this slow and sluggish.

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Posted: Tue, 13th Mar 2012 22:42 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

did I miss the part where you said why you don't just format and re-install windows? asus z170-A \|\| core i5-6600K \|\| geforce gtx 970 4gb \|\| 16gb ddr4 ram \|\| win10 \|\| 1080p led samsung 27"

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Posted: Tue, 13th Mar 2012 23:00 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

Yes because there is none Ultimately this is what i may end up doing but this started happening twice for no obvious reaon. The laptop wasn't infected with malware or whatever. It happened both time in an almost clean state so i want to know what the hell caused this because i wouldn't surprised if it happened again in the future. It's also possible that a piece of hardware failing/corrupting windows may be behind this so that's why i think it's important that i find what cause this just in case.

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Posted: Wed, 14th Mar 2012 00:05 Post subject:

Have you checked if the event viewer is reporting anything at the time of the slowdowns?

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i guess thouth if without a legit key the installation was rolling back we are all fucking then

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Posted: Wed, 14th Mar 2012 00:41 Post subject:

tonizito wrote:

Have you checked if the event viewer is reporting anything at the time of the slowdowns?

Yes. There are some random errors sometimes but not always. That's why i suspected the HDD or Ram at first but chkdisk and memtest came up with nothing. I'm currently scanning with one of the tool on UltimateBootCD. 32% now and nothing. There is another one i will after that but if it also come out with nothing than the HDD will be out of question wiith almost 100% certitude.

I'm actually having a bit of fun doing all this. Dunno i guess i'm bored and really do want to find wtf is causing this. Very Happy

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