Since you've reformatted your drive and run diagnostics, it could be something other than a root kit bug or the hard drive circuitry developing a thermal problem. Your CPU may be running hotter than normal due to dust bunnies. I would recommend that you use a can of compressed air to blow out your cooling vents. Also, additional heat within the cabinet could cause the memory chips or memory addressing circuits to slow down. Check your BIOS for optimum settings. Electronic components can suddenly "age" and slow down. Chip components are like micro capacitors charging and discharging. These charge/discharge cycles can become very slow due to heat or age.
actually before formatting i did clean out the vents with compressed air, there wasnt much dust in there. One of my cousins also had this problem after slowing down his laptop got these white lines going down his screen and eventually his video card burnt out, i hope its not that :[ . No, there is no heat problem it stays at about 140 F when i play games and stuff it goes to 160 or something now i also have a big fan beside my pc and it went from 140 to 110 F so i dont think its the heat. Uhm i think i have optimum settings[ i actually dont know what optimum settings are] :)
Well, sounds like overheating is not the problem. Most BIOSes have optimum, or recommended, settings. Since you most likely haven't changed any BIOS settings, I doubt if that's the cause of your problem. Have you brought up task manager and looked at the Processes? If the CPU utilization is running a tad high, you might want to watch what process is most active. There is a particular bug that cannot be detected by normal means, but a reformat should have taken care of that. My daughter's 1525 had one of those bugs. She was totally unable to copy VHS tapes to DVD. I used Rkill to stop it, followed by a full scan with an updated Malwarebytes Anti-Malware.
Hey tony i ran that rkill thing and the only thing it pointed out was some program crashes, those were games that crashed because i was messing with the settings not that big of a deal. My computer is kindof getting better now but whenever u run something heavy it goes back to being slow again. It happens randomly too now sometimes it works perfect sometimes it just doesnt want to work lol
Did you run Malwarebytes AntiMalware immediately after running rkill? The reason you do this is that rkill will stop a "hidden" process long enough for MBAM to "see" it and tag it for deletion.
There could be several possibilities for a system to perform lower than what it used to over a period of time because of not enough hard disk space or data corruption or bad hardware. As you have already formatted the hard drive and reinstalled the OS, you have eliminated any software causes including the OS corruption.
I would recommend you to run Basic Diagnostics or PSA Diagnostics test on the computer to verify any hardware failures from the following link (Option 2) http://del.ly/Diagnostics
If you receive an error during PSA Diagnostics, look for the associating error code and replace the hardware to resolve the slow performance of the system.
Hi, niranjan before i posted on the dell forums i was searching for an answer for this problem myself i read on some other forum taht u should run the diagnostics so i ran it and it found no errors with this computer it said that there were no problems found do u want to continue the test i said yes and it still didnt find any problems...
Occasionally, a Microsoft update or video driver update can cause an unexpected slowdown. Since your system has an Nvidia video chip, you could try running the Intel Driver Update Utility found here: www.intel.com/.../detect
Uhm the intel driver detector thing doest recognize half my drivers, i tried the old ones that came with the cd and then i got the new one from the Nvidia website too, btw my computer is gradually becoming better but it still slows down when i play a game or something
tgsmith
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August 2nd, 2011 21:00
Evil Acid,
Since you've reformatted your drive and run diagnostics, it could be something other than a root kit bug or the hard drive circuitry developing a thermal problem. Your CPU may be running hotter than normal due to dust bunnies. I would recommend that you use a can of compressed air to blow out your cooling vents. Also, additional heat within the cabinet could cause the memory chips or memory addressing circuits to slow down. Check your BIOS for optimum settings. Electronic components can suddenly "age" and slow down. Chip components are like micro capacitors charging and discharging. These charge/discharge cycles can become very slow due to heat or age.
Let us know what you find.
Tony
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actually before formatting i did clean out the vents with compressed air, there wasnt much dust in there. One of my cousins also had this problem after slowing down his laptop got these white lines going down his screen and eventually his video card burnt out, i hope its not that :[ . No, there is no heat problem it stays at about 140 F when i play games and stuff it goes to 160 or something now i also have a big fan beside my pc and it went from 140 to 110 F so i dont think its the heat. Uhm i think i have optimum settings[ i actually dont know what optimum settings are] :)
tgsmith
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August 2nd, 2011 22:00
Evil Acid,
Well, sounds like overheating is not the problem. Most BIOSes have optimum, or recommended, settings. Since you most likely haven't changed any BIOS settings, I doubt if that's the cause of your problem. Have you brought up task manager and looked at the Processes? If the CPU utilization is running a tad high, you might want to watch what process is most active. There is a particular bug that cannot be detected by normal means, but a reformat should have taken care of that. My daughter's 1525 had one of those bugs. She was totally unable to copy VHS tapes to DVD. I used Rkill to stop it, followed by a full scan with an updated Malwarebytes Anti-Malware.
Hope this information helps.
Tony
EVIL ACID
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August 2nd, 2011 22:00
Well i guess its time for a new computer eh ?
EVIL ACID
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August 2nd, 2011 22:00
yea im not running anything execpt for the basic programs the program that used the most memory is google Chrome lol.
EVIL ACID
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August 3rd, 2011 02:00
Hey tony i ran that rkill thing and the only thing it pointed out was some program crashes, those were games that crashed because i was messing with the settings not that big of a deal. My computer is kindof getting better now but whenever u run something heavy it goes back to being slow again. It happens randomly too now sometimes it works perfect sometimes it just doesnt want to work lol
tgsmith
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August 3rd, 2011 20:00
Evil Acid,
Did you run Malwarebytes AntiMalware immediately after running rkill? The reason you do this is that rkill will stop a "hidden" process long enough for MBAM to "see" it and tag it for deletion.
Tony
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August 3rd, 2011 21:00
No but ill try and let you know.
EVIL ACID
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August 3rd, 2011 22:00
Ok tony i ran Malwarebytes AntiMalware immediately after running rkill and there were no detections. :[
leftt 4 dead
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August 4th, 2011 01:00
download Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware
EVIL ACID
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August 4th, 2011 02:00
I did and i scanned my computer... there were no detections.
Niranjan2
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August 4th, 2011 08:00
Hello,
Welcome to the Dell community forum.
There could be several possibilities for a system to perform lower than what it used to over a period of time because of not enough hard disk space or data corruption or bad hardware. As you have already formatted the hard drive and reinstalled the OS, you have eliminated any software causes including the OS corruption.
I would recommend you to run Basic Diagnostics or PSA Diagnostics test on the computer to verify any hardware failures from the following link (Option 2) http://del.ly/Diagnostics
If you receive an error during PSA Diagnostics, look for the associating error code and replace the hardware to resolve the slow performance of the system.
-Niranjan
EVIL ACID
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August 4th, 2011 21:00
Hi, niranjan before i posted on the dell forums i was searching for an answer for this problem myself i read on some other forum taht u should run the diagnostics so i ran it and it found no errors with this computer it said that there were no problems found do u want to continue the test i said yes and it still didnt find any problems...
tgsmith
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August 5th, 2011 01:00
Evil Acid,
Occasionally, a Microsoft update or video driver update can cause an unexpected slowdown. Since your system has an Nvidia video chip, you could try running the Intel Driver Update Utility found here: www.intel.com/.../detect
Let us know what you find.
Tony
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August 5th, 2011 03:00
Uhm the intel driver detector thing doest recognize half my drivers, i tried the old ones that came with the cd and then i got the new one from the Nvidia website too, btw my computer is gradually becoming better but it still slows down when i play a game or something