Laptop is shit fucking slow; Pretty sure it's hard drive damage... GETTING TIRED OF FREEZING
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This probably improved because, since you only had 4GB of ram, the system put more load on the hard drive, 8GB probably doubled its tolerance, I would suggest doing a full scan with HDTune to see if theres anything wrong with the hard drive, however I believe your hard drive is fucked because that's what I've experienced with laptops that have been dropped.
This is not likely to completely fix the issue, but CCleaner is a very great tool.
[QUOTE=Phantasy;39910429]This is not likely to completely fix the issue, but CCleaner is a very great tool.[/QUOTE]
The only fix is to swap out the hard drive or use very little as possible, I would suggest turning off paging and disable a bunch of services that he does not need/use to save memory.
MY HD started doing this until I noticed that corrupted files starting occurring. that's a warning your Hard drive is failing, usually.
HD health programs were telling me my hd health was at 77% percent, and, by the next week, it tanked to 5%, so, those numbers don't mean shit sometime
First the freezing, stuttering and all kinds of weird bullshit. Then corrupted files, BSOD, etc. May wanna start backing up and
Try that first option here
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Actually, I'm pretty sure it was all a RAM issue now.
Because now there is relatively no freezing, and games/large programs/etc. load in way way faster.
What I can figure is that there wasn't enough RAM to handle resource eating things and still do other things at the same time, so it was eating what little pagefile (seriously, it was microscopic) I had to try to keep up, and it was bogging down my hard drive to try to do OTHER things.
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If that makes any sense.
In short, I haven't noticed any freezing since the last post. This is pretty much solved.
Yeah, low RAM situations can cause bizarre problems. When I got my original laptop in 2006, it came with only 512M of RAM. Running Half-Life would make it BSOD or spontaneously reboot, which drive me batty until I ran some tools that showed HL was running out of memory and trying to use swap as physical memory (which failed.)
I upgraded it to the max 2 GB and those problems went away, though it was still pig slow from the GMA915. Ah, I wish I had the money to get a new laptop.
[QUOTE=bohb;39696443]Herp, let's just rip a hard drive out of one machine and toss it in another machine and attempt to boot off of it, totally nothing will go wrong and destroy the Windows installation, totally.[/QUOTE]
It won't. All that happens is the machine you put the hard drive in will get a BSOD because it fails to boot the OS on the hard drive. Tried this many times out of boredom
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