Laptop slows down to crawl what else can it be?

LBCvalenz562

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Oct 27, 2013
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A friend needed help with his laptop it was running extremely slow to the point it was unusable and has been sitting in a closet.

I tried to get in and see what was going but i noticed as soon as i turned it on that it was slow getting into windows and when it did i realized that i had to wait 2-5 minutes for it to process anything just opening the start menu took about a minute then after it would open what i wanted it just froze and had to be restarted. It ran a little better when i went into safe mode but once i tried to open any files the same issue would happen.

He didn't have any files worth saving so i just did a fresh install of windows 7. Same issues. So i decided to run some tests on the Hard drive by connecting it to my pc and it was getting a error on HD Tune pro when i tried to run a file benchmark.

At this point i'm thinking its the hard drive but i also swapped the ram from my laptop just in case still the same issues. So is OK to say that the hard drive is the issue? I dont want to have him spend money on a hard drive and it could be the cpu or something.
 
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It can be 3 things.
1.Your hard driver is full
2.Your graphics Driver does not worth with whatever your using an you need to update to a working version.Do not download the latest drivers an expect them to work 100% of the time.Sometimes you need to download older drivers.Like Catalyst 14.4.
3.Your graphics driver is just not made to run the functions you intended for it.Returning your laptop or selling it online at Amazon New or Used is probably the best bet.

WarsunGames

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It can be 3 things.
1.Your hard driver is full
2.Your graphics Driver does not worth with whatever your using an you need to update to a working version.Do not download the latest drivers an expect them to work 100% of the time.Sometimes you need to download older drivers.Like Catalyst 14.4.
3.Your graphics driver is just not made to run the functions you intended for it.Returning your laptop or selling it online at Amazon New or Used is probably the best bet.
 
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