Your comp making any odd noises?

Your comp making any odd noises?

Nothing unusual.

I'm just going to say its probably age screwing with your computer, unless you downloaded something bad as of late.

I've downloaded nothing different than what I generally download, I'm sure of that.

Quote from: Nagato on February 17, 2015, 12:45:31 PM

Quote from: Yu on February 17, 2015, 12:43:32 PM

I'm just going to say its probably age screwing with your computer, unless you downloaded something bad as of late.

I've downloaded nothing different than what I generally download, I'm sure of that.

Have you been tweaking with windows settings? Or anything of the like?

Nope.

Quote from: Nagato on February 17, 2015, 12:47:33 PM

Quote from: Yu on February 17, 2015, 12:46:29 PM

Quote from: Nagato on February 17, 2015, 12:45:31 PM

Quote from: Yu on February 17, 2015, 12:43:32 PM

I'm just going to say its probably age screwing with your computer, unless you downloaded something bad as of late.

I've downloaded nothing different than what I generally download, I'm sure of that.

Have you been tweaking with windows settings? Or anything of the like?

Nope.

<.<
Well unless you went around looking your system which I'd highly advice against, unless you know what you're doing I'd say its more age than anything, and if you want to combat it, go to somewhere the laptop can be looked at and fixed. It'll cost money, but less than buying a new laptop.

I'll be doing that, I had a hope maybe someone here who knows about this stuff could confirm that it's fucked or what.

Have you turned it off and disconnected the battery?

Try defragging the hard drive as well.

Have you turned it off and disconnected the battery?

Try defragging the hard drive as well.

Tried the first part.
Haven't tried the second.

I've never done that before.

Quote from: Rape Culture on February 17, 2015, 01:09:43 PM

reimage, helping you would be a fruitless endeavour

He needs instructions on how to reimage from command prompt.

what

It didn't do anything noticable unfortunately.
I can't seem to find anything that does.

Tried safe mode?

Yeah.
That works, but is really slow.

Could be a virus. It isn't anywhere near old and shouldn't be having these problems. Get it looked at ASAP.

I've looked around and this seems to be a really common problem, altough there are lots of different reasons for it apparently.

It's hard to get a feel for what's exactly wrong with your system, so start by doing this:

Do you use (a good) antivirus?  Try a sweep.
Is your C drive at capacity?  Try running Disk Cleanup, and getting rid of unneeded files.
Then try running Disk Defragmenter.

Then try the Check Disk command (open up the command prompt (press the start menu and look for "cmd.exe")):
Type the commands "chkdsk /f C:", which will look through your C drive (assuming you have Windows installed on the C drive) and find/repair any disk errors.  If you're using the disk at the time (which you should be, since your OS is on it), it should ask you if you'd like to have it checked when the system is restarted.

Try going into the task manager, with nothing else open, see how much CPU and RAM is being used.  See what processes are taking up your computer (if the problem is related to a virus/rootkit, this step probably won't matter, since they'll be hidden processes)

It's hard to get a feel for what's exactly wrong with your system, so start by doing this:

Do you use (a good) antivirus?  Try a sweep.
Is your C drive at capacity?  Try running Disk Cleanup, and getting rid of unneeded files.
Then try running Disk Defragmenter.

Then try the Check Disk command (open up the command prompt (press the start menu and look for "cmd.exe")):
Type the commands "chkdsk /f C:", which will look through your C drive (assuming you have Windows installed on the C drive) and find/repair any disk errors.  If you're using the disk at the time (which you should be, since your OS is on it), it should ask you if you'd like to have it checked when the system is restarted.

Try going into the task manager, with nothing else open, see how much CPU and RAM is being used.  See what processes are taking up your computer (if the problem is related to a virus/rootkit, this step probably won't matter, since they'll be hidden processes)

The Check Disk is running right now.

Everything else is usually in the clear, I make sure to keep my laptop clean and generally delete whatever I don't need.
I'm going to scan it once again after this check is finished, then I think I'm calling it a night and tomorrow I'll take it to someone.

Edit: OH.