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Asus A8Js screwed!!!
My laptop has been acting funny since the past 2 days. Its become so slow. Windows starts up in like 10 minutes. To shut down, it takes another 10 minutes. Sometimes it runs fine, but say, when I start Firefox or any normal application, it again becomes slow and the mouse pointer jerks and moves and the HDD light is blinks at low intensity, then after like 20 minutes it gets OK. Again if I start an application, or even sometimes when I'm working on an application, this thing happens.
I've checked registry, system cleaner, antivirus, but no help.
Please help.
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Re: Asus A8Js screwed!!!
I'll wager it's not the laptop, it's the operating system. Backup and re-install!
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Have you tried to recover ur laptop using the recovery partition? In these conditions you described it is better to start over with a clean slate.
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It sounds like your hard drive may be in PIO mode. Have you checked that? Go into the Device Manager and right click on your hard drive and see what mode it is in.
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It sounds like your hard drive may be in PIO mode. Have you checked that? Go into the Device Manager and right click on your hard drive and see what mode it is in.
I cant see any PIO mode option. I right clicked on the hard drive but cudnt see any options.
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Hello!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Have you defragged your hard drive recently? If not, try that.
If you've run antivirus and antimalware apps and nothing comes up, I'd second (or third) the advice to do a clean install of the OS. Backup your files and start over.
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i have defragged my hard drive......which took too long.....do i just reinstall windows or re-format the whole thing and make a clean install??
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Format i'd say. I'd be tempted to think it was a hard drive fault but it could be the OS.
Open the device manager and click to get a list of IDE controllers. Right click on both IDE channel controllers and click properties, then go to the advanced settings tab. Make sure it says 'DMA if available'.
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I agree with Caleb. Sounds a LOT like a hard drive in PIO mode. Do you see a lot of CPU usage when copying files?
Have you run Windows update lately, updated your chipset drivers at all or anything? That's usually the culprit in these matters.