Acer Aspire 5750G really, really, really s l o w?

[Rix_77]

Hi all,

 

My wife has a Acer Aspire 5750G Laptop and for some reason a while ago it has really slowed down.

It runs windows 7 64bit, has a Intel Core i5 2430M CPU, Nvidia GT 520M GPU, 4G of RAM & a 750G HDD.

 

It takes a good 3 to 4 minutes to boot up and ages to do just about anything else. I cant seem to work out why.

 

I have a gut feeling it might be the HDD though im not 100%

 

I'm considering changing out the HDD & RAM for a SSHD & a single 8G RAM stick but I don't want to spend the $$ before I know that will fix the problem.

 

 

 

Any Idea's??

 

 

Rick

[Guest]

Just get a 240GB SSD for cheap from Samsung or Crucial and your problems will be solved.

[Rix_77]

Its not that the laptop is working correctly and its normally slow, there is something wrong and it is practically unusable - I'm looking for advice on what it might be. I intend on giving it an upgrade plus moving to windows 10 however I dont want it to still be slow once it's done.

I've tried defragmentation and antivirus and all sorts of things but can't work it out.

[Dackzy]

Its not that the laptop is working correctly and its normally slow, there is something wrong and it is practically unusable - I'm looking for advice on what it might be. I intend on giving it an upgrade plus moving to windows 10 however I dont want it to still be slow once it's done.

I've tried defragmentation and antivirus and all sorts of things but can't work it out.

Try a clean install of windows and if that doesn't fix the problem get a ssd, the only reason to upgrade ram is if she likes to have many programs open at once.

[WestcoastPCBuilder]

Goto cmd prompt as admin ... type sfc /scannow , that will check for any corruption in the o/s.

 

You can download a program called HDTune which has a health section to let you know of anything that might be going wrong.

 

Your laptop should have a hard drive and memory diagnostic utility. You can usually check memory from the bios. Check acer site for some HDD utility.

 

You can run chkdsk as well ...

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2641432

 

Check the performace tab in task manager to make sure a program isn't hoggin resources.

 

Also, check if there's any overheating with a program such as this ...

http://openhardwaremonitor.org/

[Rix_77]

Goto cmd prompt as admin ... type sfc /scannow , that will check for any corruption in the o/s.

 

You can download a program called HDTune which has a health section to let you know of anything that might be going wrong.

 

Your laptop should have a hard drive and memory diagnostic utility. You can usually check memory from the bios. Check acer site for some HDD utility.

 

You can run chkdsk as well ...

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2641432

 

Check the performace tab in task manager to make sure a program isn't hoggin resources.

 

Also, check if there's any overheating with a program such as this ...

http://openhardwaremonitor.org/

Thanks Westcoast,

 

Ive run the sfc/scannow and it was ok, is there any way to pull up the results of a chkdsk after its run?

I let it go over night and as a result I wasn't awake when it finished.

[WestcoastPCBuilder]

chkdsk logs are apparently at ...

Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Event Viewer -> Windows Logs -> Application -> Wininit

[Rix_77]

This is what ive come up with - 

 

When I copy/paste this it has lines stuck through?

 

 

Log Name:      Application

Source:        Microsoft-Windows-Wininit
Date:          12/01/2016 2:34:30 AM
Event ID:      1001
Task Category: None
Level:         Information
Keywords:      Classic
User:          N/A
Computer:      xc7968-PC
Description:

Checking file system on C:
The type of the file system is NTFS.
Volume label is Acer.

A disk check has been scheduled.
Windows will now check the disk.                        

CHKDSK is verifying files (stage 1 of 5)...
  240640 file records processed.                                        
File verification completed.
  1289 large file records processed.                                  
  0 bad file records processed.                                    
  0 EA records processed.                                          
  44 reparse records processed.                                     
CHKDSK is verifying indexes (stage 2 of 5)...
  308218 index entries processed.                                       
Index verification completed.
  0 unindexed files scanned.                                       
  0 unindexed files recovered.                                     
CHKDSK is verifying security descriptors (stage 3 of 5)...
  240640 file SDs/SIDs processed.                                       
Security descriptor verification completed.
  33790 data files processed.                                          
CHKDSK is verifying Usn Journal...
  37106864 USN bytes processed.                                           
Usn Journal verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying file data (stage 4 of 5)...
  240624 files processed.                                               
File data verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying free space (stage 5 of 5)...
  139939903 free clusters processed.                                       
Free space verification is complete.
CHKDSK discovered free space marked as allocated in the
master file table (MFT) bitmap.
CHKDSK discovered free space marked as allocated in the volume bitmap.
Windows has made corrections to the file system.

713594879 KB total disk space.
153345940 KB in 182221 files.
    121980 KB in 33791 indexes.
         0 KB in bad sectors.
    367343 KB in use by the system.
     65536 KB occupied by the log file.
559759616 KB available on disk.

      4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
178398719 total allocation units on disk.
139939904 allocation units available on disk.

Internal Info:
00 ac 03 00 d8 4b 03 00 d3 03 06 00 00 00 00 00  .....K..........
67 ba 00 00 2c 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  g...,...........
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................

Windows has finished checking your disk.
Please wait while your computer restarts.

Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
  <System>
    <Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-Wininit" Guid="{206f6dea-d3c5-4d10-bc72-989f03c8b84b}" EventSourceName="Wininit" />
    <EventID Qualifiers="16384">1001</EventID>
    <Version>0</Version>
    <Level>4</Level>
    <Task>0</Task>
    <Opcode>0</Opcode>
    <Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
    <TimeCreated SystemTime="2016-01-11T18:34:30.000000000Z" />
    <EventRecordID>53651</EventRecordID>
    <Correlation />
    <Execution ProcessID="0" ThreadID="0" />
    <Channel>Application</Channel>
    <Computer>xc7968-PC</Computer>
    <Security />
  </System>
  <EventData>
    <Data>

Checking file system on C:
The type of the file system is NTFS.
Volume label is Acer.

A disk check has been scheduled.
Windows will now check the disk.                        

CHKDSK is verifying files (stage 1 of 5)...
  240640 file records processed.                                        
File verification completed.
  1289 large file records processed.                                  
  0 bad file records processed.                                    
  0 EA records processed.                                          
  44 reparse records processed.                                     
CHKDSK is verifying indexes (stage 2 of 5)...
  308218 index entries processed.                                       
Index verification completed.
  0 unindexed files scanned.                                       
  0 unindexed files recovered.                                     
CHKDSK is verifying security descriptors (stage 3 of 5)...
  240640 file SDs/SIDs processed.                                       
Security descriptor verification completed.
  33790 data files processed.                                          
CHKDSK is verifying Usn Journal...
  37106864 USN bytes processed.                                           
Usn Journal verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying file data (stage 4 of 5)...
  240624 files processed.                                               
File data verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying free space (stage 5 of 5)...
  139939903 free clusters processed.                                       
Free space verification is complete.
CHKDSK discovered free space marked as allocated in the
master file table (MFT) bitmap.
CHKDSK discovered free space marked as allocated in the volume bitmap.
Windows has made corrections to the file system.

713594879 KB total disk space.
153345940 KB in 182221 files.
    121980 KB in 33791 indexes.
         0 KB in bad sectors.
    367343 KB in use by the system.
     65536 KB occupied by the log file.
559759616 KB available on disk.

      4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
178398719 total allocation units on disk.
139939904 allocation units available on disk.

Internal Info:
00 ac 03 00 d8 4b 03 00 d3 03 06 00 00 00 00 00  .....K..........
67 ba 00 00 2c 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  g...,...........
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................

Windows has finished checking your disk.
Please wait while your computer restarts.
</Data>
  </EventData>
</Event>