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StrikerJojo
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July 31st, 2011 06:00
m14x Terribly Slow
Hey guys, Ive had my m14x for about 4 months now, Upgraded mostly everything on it.
to the 6gb ram, 3gb video, HD screen, etc.
At first it was consideribly fast.. Before I go into details. Im sure alot of replies will be "you have lots of stuff on your pc! check your msconfig start up! etc"
Im a neat freak when it comes to my pc's I only have 1-2 games installed at times max, dead space 2, just cause 2, left 4 dead 2, Those type of games.
And first played flawlessly, as of a week ago started crashing, mind you months ago my bootup time no joke is like 7-10 minutes. Its really making me angry :(
So I format and reinstall the OS and drivers etc, Its still terribly slow, like you have no idea, Wont play games due to crashing, Power settings are on performance as well not battery saver. Could this be hardware failure?
herschwolf
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Posted August 1st, 2011 14:00
Sounds more like a hardware problem than anything. To test this out you can attempt to boot from 1 stick of memory at a time and if you find the boot up faster replace the memory. The harddrive is a little harder to test. There are onboard testing, but if you can get into Windows and run a good old chkdsk (through the Tools tab of the drive) you might have a better understanding on the system.
There are other diagnostic tools out there available, but as far as this being a software issue I think you are out of luck. If you reinstall a base image, install NO updates and run at base image, and it's still taking forever to boot or surf the web then you have a hardware issue somewhere.
Let me know how it goes and if you need more help.
-Nate
StrikerJojo
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Posted August 1st, 2011 15:00
Am I allowed to open it? I mean im a PC technician at my main work, its not that I dont know how but I dont want to void warrenties, Am I allowed to go that far?
Brasilwill
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Posted August 8th, 2011 14:00
I am about to return mine based on what you just posted.
Brasilwill
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Posted August 8th, 2011 14:00
Send it in for warranty since it is within the 1yr...
StrikerJojo
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Posted August 1st, 2011 11:00
No one?
Just formatted again and reinstalled all right drivers, and now wont even play games just crashes half te time