Hello, I've ran a few searches for the problem I'm having and I found 1 or 2 threads with similar problems, but weren't resolved and were from 2010. So I figured I'd try starting a new thread!
I have never, ever encountered any problems with my pc being slow or even showing signs of slowing down for the few years I've had it, but I turn it off 1 night... turn it back on the next evening, and it took about 30 minutes for it to get past the "starting windows" screen. Even when it finally got passed, it ran so slow loading each desktop icon 1 at a time, 1 every 30 seconds or so. Once everything is loaded, it still sits with the HDD light on but making no noise, and every few minutes you hear it working, then back to silence with the light still on.
I thought maybe it was my hard drive going bad all of a sudden, but after turning it off for a few days letting it sit, I'm now on it writing this after waiting for it to load for about an hour. The mouse pointer never jitters or stalls, it works fine, but windows I have open for a folder or anything will keep freezing for a few minutes and such. I managed to run defrag, and update/scan viruses with norton and both finished fine with no problems.
One scan that had an error, the only 1 to have an error of everything I tried was the SMART scan on the hard drive. But the other hard drive scans worked fine. Its much better as I'm sitting here writing this, but then again I havent tried running anything else yet, and it did take an hour to load windows. I even turned off everything not needed for system startup. In safe mode it was better, but still took quite some time to load.
Please let me know anything I could possibly try, or anything I can scan and show you to try and find why its having this problem!
Here is the sysinfo copy/paste it recommended I do.
Tech Support Guy System Info Utility version 1.0.0.2
OS Version: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium, Service Pack 1, 64 bit
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 860 @ 2.80GHz, Intel64 Family 6 Model 30 Stepping 5
Processor Count: 8
RAM: 8183 Mb
Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce GT 630, -2048 Mb
Hard Drives: C: Total - 941328 MB, Free - 133484 MB; D: Total - 12437 MB, Free - 1912 MB;
Motherboard: MSI, Indio
Antivirus: Norton Security Suite, Updated and Enable
Thanks for reading and your time!
I have never, ever encountered any problems with my pc being slow or even showing signs of slowing down for the few years I've had it, but I turn it off 1 night... turn it back on the next evening, and it took about 30 minutes for it to get past the "starting windows" screen. Even when it finally got passed, it ran so slow loading each desktop icon 1 at a time, 1 every 30 seconds or so. Once everything is loaded, it still sits with the HDD light on but making no noise, and every few minutes you hear it working, then back to silence with the light still on.
I thought maybe it was my hard drive going bad all of a sudden, but after turning it off for a few days letting it sit, I'm now on it writing this after waiting for it to load for about an hour. The mouse pointer never jitters or stalls, it works fine, but windows I have open for a folder or anything will keep freezing for a few minutes and such. I managed to run defrag, and update/scan viruses with norton and both finished fine with no problems.
One scan that had an error, the only 1 to have an error of everything I tried was the SMART scan on the hard drive. But the other hard drive scans worked fine. Its much better as I'm sitting here writing this, but then again I havent tried running anything else yet, and it did take an hour to load windows. I even turned off everything not needed for system startup. In safe mode it was better, but still took quite some time to load.
Please let me know anything I could possibly try, or anything I can scan and show you to try and find why its having this problem!
Here is the sysinfo copy/paste it recommended I do.
Tech Support Guy System Info Utility version 1.0.0.2
OS Version: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium, Service Pack 1, 64 bit
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 860 @ 2.80GHz, Intel64 Family 6 Model 30 Stepping 5
Processor Count: 8
RAM: 8183 Mb
Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce GT 630, -2048 Mb
Hard Drives: C: Total - 941328 MB, Free - 133484 MB; D: Total - 12437 MB, Free - 1912 MB;
Motherboard: MSI, Indio
Antivirus: Norton Security Suite, Updated and Enable
Thanks for reading and your time!