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Slowing/Freeze Problem (not heat related?)
I bought my Inspiron 5150 last spring (conveniently, my warranty just ran out). I am more than aware of the overheating problems and motherboard "touch" problem, and I am 90% sure this is not related to either. I have been using compressed air and the system idles at around 45-50 degrees Celcius. Not ideal, but acceptable looking at many of the posts here.
A few months ago my system starting running verrrry slowly. Everything was lagging to the point of beign unusable. It never fully froze up or crashed, just came to an absolute crawl. Like minutes between anything happening.
I figured it was the motherboard or something but I figured it was useless like this anyway so I gave it a format and... it worked! Everything was fine! Everything ran at normal speeds and I was happy again.
BUT. Yesterday it started slowing again. I have no idea why it was or what I did, there was about a month and a half where it was fine, then without warning, it did it again. I am pretty sure that if I format my HD again it will be fine for another little while, but I really don't want to go through doing this every month.
Any ideas? Any similar experiences? Any suggestions? I would really appreciate any help I could get. I can't send it in or anything, a) my warranty is out, and b) I am currently in Taiwan (which is why I bought a LAPTOP in the first place).
Thanks for any help!
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Posted May 10th, 2005 14:00
Ditto on the previous post!!deathwalker
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Posted May 10th, 2005 15:00
I have worked on many Desktop systems in the 15 yrs that I have been building/ repairing computers that demonstrated very similar behavior that have had drive corruption resulting in Operating system corruption . You may well have a Hard Drive with Bad Sectors that is causing corruption in your Operating system installation. My experience with Hard Drives has taught me that once you start getting bad sectors that result in Installation corruption that it has a tendency to cascade...i.e. you get more and more bad sectors over time and poor and poor performance. I would not discount this as a possible problem.Message Edited by deathwalker on 05-10-2005 11:51 AM
- Hmm, gives me something to try, thanks!
Admittedly this is the first laptop I've owned. If it was a desktop, no problem, and I know how to remove the hard drive, but are they easily swappable with another? Can I buy a new one seperately, or will I need to buy one/get it fixed from Dell (should I decide to go this route)? deathwalker
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Posted May 10th, 2005 23:00
Got to this link at Newegg..they sell lots of Laptop harddrives..they are ez to do \
http://www.newegg.com/ProductSort/SubCategory.asp?SubCategory=380
go to this site to download your service manual it will tell you how to replace the drive
http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/ins5100/en/sm/index.htmMessage Edited by deathwalker on 05-10-2005 07:59 PM
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Posted May 10th, 2005 10:00