My computer is lagging like crazy

[opp289]

I did a full scan on most anti virus software, came out nothing. Whenever I run games like Dota 2 or CS GO, it will lag like crazy, even when i'm running chrome. it will sometimes hang. Any ideas why? I did some research and it might be my hard disk or graphic card or mother board. But need to double confirm.

Specs : ( Alienware X51)

Win 7 Home Premium 64 bit
i5-2320 @ 3GHZ
8gb RAM
1 TB storage
Nvidia GTX 555 4GB

 

[wwenze]

Clean the heatsink

 

[jtjt00]

Download HDTune and do a error scan (do not check) quick scan and see if there is bad sectors?

 

[ZrE0_Cha0s]

maybe u can try to reinstall your driver and see?

 

[watzup_ken]

Could be a failing hard disk. Experienced this twice and everything takes a long time to start up or launch.

 

[rubbadubbaducky!]

I encountered this before, I check my Task Manager > Performance and realised my disk running at 100% although not much applications running.

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[Koenig168]

Had this issue yesterday.

Everything was lagging. Rebooted and Win 10 was "scanning and repairing hard disk". After going into Win 10, clicked the HDD in File Explorer and got "Invalid parameter". No files can be read. Disk Management showed the HDD is now RAW.

Pulled that HDD out and system back to normal.

 

[kaixax555]

Probably failing HDD

 

[xtractor]

I did a full scan on most anti virus software, came out nothing. Whenever I run games like Dota 2 or CS GO, it will lag like crazy, even when i'm running chrome. it will sometimes hang. Any ideas why? I did some research and it might be my hard disk or graphic card or mother board. But need to double confirm.

Specs : ( Alienware X51)

Win 7 Home Premium 64 bit
i5-2320 @ 3GHZ
8gb RAM
1 TB storage
Nvidia GTX 555 4GB

first step is to do clean up on ur hdd,go to program and features delete unneccesary files and software,make sure to use only one antivirus,remove add in web browser such as web search etc,lastly do disk cleanup

if still fail then remove graphic card,ram and clear the dust etc
use rubber eraser to clean the strip
hope the method works..GL

 

[gld998]

Probably failing HDD

one of TS hdd is dying... normally its main cause of slowness.

 

[Louisloo]

Check your C drive. Is it almost full capacity?
If it has less than 10% free space, then this problem might happen.

 

[opp289]

Hi all, thanks for the wonderful replies. I will try and do everything and update soon.

 

[Crimson_FURY]

Something tells me this problem will magically disappear when you upgrade to an SSD

 

[opp289]

Hi all, so i uninstalled loads of apps, games as well as movies.
did the HDtune error check thingy, these are the result..

http://imgur.com/a/garS3 ( error check )

http://imgur.com/a/Tfu4x ( benchmark )

things start to run abit faster, but occasional lag. will the problem go away if i change to another hard disk?

 

[Koenig168]

Your hard disk is fine. I suggest you try a fresh reinstall of Win 7. You might want to take this opportunity to upgrade to a SSD. It will make your whole system faster.

 

[xtractor]

Hi all, so i uninstalled loads of apps, games as well as movies.
did the HDtune error check thingy, these are the result..

http://imgur.com/a/garS3 ( error check )

http://imgur.com/a/Tfu4x ( benchmark )

things start to run abit faster, but occasional lag. will the problem go away if i change to another hard disk?

get ssd and make it primary mainly for Windows
and make ur toshiba HDD as secondary to store movies and games etc...settle ur problem

 

[xiaozozo]

i have a similar problem, and my issue is failing hard disk. Some of my symptoms are follow:
-slow boot
-CPU usage extremely high
-slow loading of programs/games
-unable to perform HDD defrag/scan
-boot error always, request for Windows Safe mode
-Windows popup message "failing HDD"

probabaly its time to get a replacement HDD haha

 

[haylui]

Check service.msc. host service maybe eat up a lot of RAM. Did you install any China software for movies?

 

[RobinTeoHood]

Taobao installs a lot of hidden services and Alipay stuff running in the the background.

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