chanchan05
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System: 1 year old HP dm4-1125x, 2.5Ghz core i5, 4GB RAM, Switchable graphics between Radeon HD 5470 and Intel.
Ok so this part of the problem is a bit weird. All avi files, whatever player I use (KMPlayer, VLC, WMP) all stutter now for some reason I can't explain. As far as I can see, its not happening in other formats. What I can see though is that they behave pretty well if played from an external storage system, like a flash drive or external hard drive. They only crap up when played directly from hard drive, so I don't think its a codec issue. (Tested with copies of the same file played from different locations).
There is a general slowness of the whole system. I mean even an empty folder takes like 3-5 seconds to open, when its not been like that. Heck even choosing a font in an empty MS Word document now lags, and even sometimes gets me a "not responding" moment. Several other programs act that way too, like Corel Draw. Several instances as well, Windows Explorer needs to load despite only few contents in the folder.
Startup now takes forever. My computer opens to the HP OS for 5 seconds before it closes to start windows. Now, after the 5 second timer finishes, instead of starting windows immediately, I have to stare at the frozen HP OS (mouse does not respond after 5 seconds) for anywhere between 5-10min before it blacks out so Windows eventually loads.
A couple of times, or three, I had a "bootable device not found" error on startup. Google says this is a hard drive failure symptom or somesuch similar like a disconnection, but my hard drive works, so I have no idea what it could be. What are the signs of imminent failure anyway?
I ran a defrag a couple of weeks ago but not much help.
Any ideas? Thanks in advance.
EDIT: A question: I basically spent a year lugging this around, travelling via public transpo for twice a week or more, and public transportation in a third world country isn't really the smoothest of rides. Could it have caused problems with the hard drive mechanically?
Ok so this part of the problem is a bit weird. All avi files, whatever player I use (KMPlayer, VLC, WMP) all stutter now for some reason I can't explain. As far as I can see, its not happening in other formats. What I can see though is that they behave pretty well if played from an external storage system, like a flash drive or external hard drive. They only crap up when played directly from hard drive, so I don't think its a codec issue. (Tested with copies of the same file played from different locations).
There is a general slowness of the whole system. I mean even an empty folder takes like 3-5 seconds to open, when its not been like that. Heck even choosing a font in an empty MS Word document now lags, and even sometimes gets me a "not responding" moment. Several other programs act that way too, like Corel Draw. Several instances as well, Windows Explorer needs to load despite only few contents in the folder.
Startup now takes forever. My computer opens to the HP OS for 5 seconds before it closes to start windows. Now, after the 5 second timer finishes, instead of starting windows immediately, I have to stare at the frozen HP OS (mouse does not respond after 5 seconds) for anywhere between 5-10min before it blacks out so Windows eventually loads.
A couple of times, or three, I had a "bootable device not found" error on startup. Google says this is a hard drive failure symptom or somesuch similar like a disconnection, but my hard drive works, so I have no idea what it could be. What are the signs of imminent failure anyway?
I ran a defrag a couple of weeks ago but not much help.
Any ideas? Thanks in advance.
EDIT: A question: I basically spent a year lugging this around, travelling via public transpo for twice a week or more, and public transportation in a third world country isn't really the smoothest of rides. Could it have caused problems with the hard drive mechanically?