• Computer is lagging after coming back from the shop
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I brought my computer to the shop to get a 2nd hard drive installed but since I brought it home it has this issue where about once a week I'll turn it on and it'll be really slow and stuttery, and the audio lags too and gets all distorted. My computer is lagging badly just typing out this thread. Once I get it working again it works perfectly for like a week then it starts again. I keep rebooting, unplugging, etc., but I can't figure out what causes it or what makes it go back to normal. I'm hesitant to bring it back to the shop cause I don't wanna go all the way out there and then find that it works perfectly at the shop. Could the problem be caused by a 2nd hardrive? Maybe my computer can't handle it or something? Or maybe something else got messed up at the shop. I'm not very good with computers so any advice would be great
Is this hard drive installed as a separate volume? Meaning does it show up as D:\ or another letter in Explorer?
[QUOTE=Splash Attack;38213129]Is this hard drive installed as a separate volume? Meaning does it show up as D:\ or another letter in Explorer?[/QUOTE] Yeah it's D:\ I also have two recovery drives labelled F:\ and G:\
I don't see why the hard drive would slow down the whole pc, it also wouldn't happen just once a week. You should check task manager when the slow down occurs for high cpu usage or memory usage by a certain process, it's possible something is scheduled weekly on your computer which is causing it
[QUOTE=djjkxbox360;38228734]I don't see why the hard drive would slow down the whole pc, it also wouldn't happen just once a week. You should check task manager when the slow down occurs for high cpu usage or memory usage by a certain process, it's possible something is scheduled weekly on your computer which is causing it[/QUOTE] It's very easy for a hard drive to slow down a computer if the drive is defective. You see, Windows is stupid. if it comes across an area of the hard drive it has trouble reading (like while loading a program) it will lock up. Instead of being smart, aborting the read operation then throwing an error, it will continue indefinitely trying to read that defective area of the hard drive. This will cause everything to lock up because the system is waiting for data to arrive from the hard drive that never will. Sometimes Windows can sputter along if whatever program you're currently using is still in RAM, but eventually it will BSOD, crash or reboot the machine (usually with some sort of IRQ error.) I recommend running something like Spinrite on all hard drives in the system to ensure they're good.
Beyond a hard drive being bad, have you tried Defragging?
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