Hey
The pc in question is an Acer Aspire 8940G, a pretty beefy 18,4" laptop. (not mine)
Intel i7 720QM 1,6GHz
4GB RAM
Nvidia GT240M
Symptoms
Ive just done a clean install of win 7 64bit.
It was slow before the reinstall too, but was also getting hot, and i thought that was the culprit, so ive taken it apart and cleaned out the carpet of dust in the heatsink. Temps are now good.
But its still slow at everything, booting, opening programs, and installing things.
In resmon it shows 100% disk usage close to all the time still its only using maybe max 2-3MB/s.
Response time for disk can reach 13 SECONDS, but is mostly at 4-5 for the top programs.
Opening programs like chrome sometimes generates up to 100 hard faults /s, and memory usage is pretty stable at about 15-20%.
Ive not installed all windows updates yet becasue some of the updates takes up to 20mins to install upon shutdown and it hangs all the time in windows.
The originall install got some user account file error or something so it couldnt log into the only user in normal mode, but worked in safe mode.
Things ive done:
1. Installed drivers from acers website. All from 2009 though. Tried windows update drivers too.
2. The laptop has 2 500GB hdds, one originally designed to use as a backup drive i think. Formatted the 2nd one and cloned the boot drive over too it and tried booting of that too, but its still slow.
3. Ran chkdsk /f /r from windows RE. I think it cleaned up some sectors, but nothing much.
4. sfc /scanonce
5. Done a full scan with malwarebytes in safe mode, nothing found
6. Disabled indexing
7. Done a thorough scan with the DiskHealth (GSmartControl) tool in PartedMagic enviroment. Reported no errors. However the error log shows a count of 6277 both before and after the test. Disk uptime is 670ish days. Im 100% sure i saved the log but its disappeard??
Solution
8. Installed win 7 64 bit on an old one i was using as external hdd. Seems to work ok now. Installing chipset drivers was now done in a few seconds instead of minutes, and everything responds normally.
Question
If the hdd was so destroyed (both of them i guess?), why wasnt this discovered by any of the tools?
Will buying a new hdd solve this in the long run?
The pc in question is an Acer Aspire 8940G, a pretty beefy 18,4" laptop. (not mine)
Intel i7 720QM 1,6GHz
4GB RAM
Nvidia GT240M
Symptoms
Ive just done a clean install of win 7 64bit.
It was slow before the reinstall too, but was also getting hot, and i thought that was the culprit, so ive taken it apart and cleaned out the carpet of dust in the heatsink. Temps are now good.
But its still slow at everything, booting, opening programs, and installing things.
In resmon it shows 100% disk usage close to all the time still its only using maybe max 2-3MB/s.
Response time for disk can reach 13 SECONDS, but is mostly at 4-5 for the top programs.
Opening programs like chrome sometimes generates up to 100 hard faults /s, and memory usage is pretty stable at about 15-20%.
Ive not installed all windows updates yet becasue some of the updates takes up to 20mins to install upon shutdown and it hangs all the time in windows.
The originall install got some user account file error or something so it couldnt log into the only user in normal mode, but worked in safe mode.
Things ive done:
1. Installed drivers from acers website. All from 2009 though. Tried windows update drivers too.
2. The laptop has 2 500GB hdds, one originally designed to use as a backup drive i think. Formatted the 2nd one and cloned the boot drive over too it and tried booting of that too, but its still slow.
3. Ran chkdsk /f /r from windows RE. I think it cleaned up some sectors, but nothing much.
4. sfc /scanonce
5. Done a full scan with malwarebytes in safe mode, nothing found
6. Disabled indexing
7. Done a thorough scan with the DiskHealth (GSmartControl) tool in PartedMagic enviroment. Reported no errors. However the error log shows a count of 6277 both before and after the test. Disk uptime is 670ish days. Im 100% sure i saved the log but its disappeard??
Solution
8. Installed win 7 64 bit on an old one i was using as external hdd. Seems to work ok now. Installing chipset drivers was now done in a few seconds instead of minutes, and everything responds normally.
Question
If the hdd was so destroyed (both of them i guess?), why wasnt this discovered by any of the tools?
Will buying a new hdd solve this in the long run?