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Old 03-25-2015, 05:04 PM   #1
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Help: My PC Is Going Bonkers

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I need help with my PC.

I was gifted a Compaq PC (very ghetto specs) running on Windows 7. Often, the PC will just be sitting there idle with Skype and Google Hangouts with Winamp running. I've owned this PC for a good 5 years now.

Then out of nowhere, what I think is the hard drive spins likes crazy, doing its own thing for a good 15 - 20 minutes and anything I do, takes forever. If someone where sending me a message via Skype, the window wouldn't pop up for a good 5 minutes. The PC becomes practically useless at this point.

Please help. I'm about to introduce a sledge hammer to my PC.

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In all seriousness, the hard drive could be on it's way out
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bcrdukes not using a mac... does not compute
Actually, I came from a PowerMac G4 tower and it suffered the same fate.
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Thanks for the replies.

So given that it is likely a hard drive failure, I think it's safe to say that it's time to back up the hard drive sooner than later. What are my options in doing this? I know for a fact that this stupid case has only a slot for one hard drive and it is SCSI. God damn it.

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2) Get a hold of an external USB hard drive
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Pretty sure the hard drive is failing.
Most Compaq PCs have a hard drive test in the BIOS. It's called DPS test or something like that. It will tell you right away if the hard drive needs replacement.
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Do you have a laptop to use? You could always remove the hdd from the compaq and plug it into a hard drive docking station to retrieve any important files you wish to backup.

Or if you have another computer to use, just plug the hdd from the compaq into the other one and retrieve the files you wish to backup.

As a sign of changing times, I have one of those hard drive docks I can lend you. txt if srs.

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So it appears the hard drive is a Western Digital. I downloaded their diagnostic software and it came back clean.

I also ran Malware Bytes just to be safe - nothing.

I'll wait and see what happens over the next few days. If this keeps up, holy fuck, I'm going to smash this thing on Main Street and throw it through multicartural's apartments in Gastown making sure it hits him on the head. Fuck.
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If you're NOT trolling...

Disable antivirus/indexing that could be running in the background.

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Back up your files and reformat it, has it ever been reformatted in these 5 years?
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Not trolling. This is the only PC I have.

The only antivirus I have is Microsoft Security Essentials (or whatever it's called.) I went through a list of programs running in the background and startup programs and have disabled some, but most of them were non-intrusive. I'll give this another week or so before I do anything. It's been an on-going thing for a few months and I've finally lost my patience.

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crystaldiskinfo or hdtune, but if it is failing... you'll just make it worse
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I'm surprised everyone thinks it's the hard drive.

From what you described, I think it's because you don't have enough memory, and all that disk activity when the machine is unresponsive is when it's swapping the memory to disk.

How much RAM does this machine have, and what is the usage like if you go to Task Manager under the Performance tab?
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I'm no expert but was thinking maybe it could be the motherboard on the way out?

Either way, I suggest you quickly plug in an external HDD and backup only your most important docs and photos for now. Or upload those files to dropbox.
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check that superfetch is turned off, it kills most windows 8 machines i've worked on. some 7's have it on by default
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I'm surprised everyone thinks it's the hard drive.

From what you described, I think it's because you don't have enough memory, and all that disk activity when the machine is unresponsive is when it's swapping the memory to disk.

How much RAM does this machine have, and what is the usage like if you go to Task Manager under the Performance tab?
I had a lurking suspicion it isn't the hard drive, but being a noob, I have no way of confirming. I opened up the case and FML - there are no free RAM slots. What a piece of shit.

The PC shows 3GB of ram, 2.75 of which is usable. Going into Task Manager > Performance shows the following:



I only have Outlook, Chrome, Skype, and Hangouts running.

Edit: I think upgrading this PC is pointless. Am I just better off buying a custom built PC?
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clear all the temp files
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defrag hard drive

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