Pc stuttering or minifreezing...

[buttmademewiser]

So about a month ago I made a topic called "hdd possibly dying?" http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/242444-hard-drive-possibly-dying/ and then my hdd did actually fry itself.

Well, now my laptop has started doing the exact same thing BUT this time it's only when I connect my monitor thtough vga. The reason for doing this is that the monitor is better color calibrated than my laptop screen. It's whenever I open lightroom 5.7 and connect the monitor. It runs fine for about 2 minutes and then starts fucking up. This problem has yet to ooccur without the screen so I'm just in awe that do I really have to buy a new monitor??

Tips and thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

[SeanBond]

I suggest an ssd replacement. It's not going to be cheap but I don't think anyone should have a hard drive for the operating system anymore and since it's about to be cyber monday you could pick one up really cheap. Depending on your storage needs, if you don't need much that is the OCZ vertex 150 is about $50 for a 120gb and that will make any system fly when compared to using a hard drive.

[buttmademewiser]

I suggest an ssd replacement. It's not going to be cheap but I don't think anyone should have a hard drive for the operating system anymore and since it's about to be cyber monday you could pick one up really cheap. Depending on your storage needs, if you don't need much that is the OCZ vertex 150 is about $50 for a 120gb and that will make any system fly when compared to using a hard drive.

There's no point buying ssd for this laptop. I'd rather buy a new laptop as this one is probably 3 years old or more and runs a shitty 2-core celeron.

[SeanBond]

There's no point buying ssd for this laptop. I'd rather buy a new laptop as this one is probably 3 years old or more and runs a shitty 2-core celeron.

My girlfriend has an old shitty hp that cost 300 3 years ago with a dual core celeron.It's hard drive started dying, after I put my old Adata sp900 in it the responsiveness of the laptop beats my in laws brand new 600 dollar dell with an i5 in it. It may not have the dell's compute power but if all you are doing is surfing the web or deal with emails and facebook an ssd is a solid option. You can always move an ssd to a new pc when you want to upgrade!

[Godlygamer23]

You can get a 1TB 840 EVO for $370 US on Newegg. I'm not sure where you live. Alternatively, 120GB can be found for $70.

[buttmademewiser]

My girlfriend has an old shitty hp that cost 300 3 years ago with a dual core celeron.It's hard drive started dying, after I put my old Adata sp900 in it the responsiveness of the laptop beats my in laws brand new 600 dollar dell with an i5 in it. It may not have the dell's compute power but if all you are doing is surfing the web or deal with emails and facebook an ssd is a solid option. You can always move an ssd to a new pc when you want to upgrade!

Well there's the thing because I also do my work related stuff (photo editing) through my laptop as I haven't bought a new hdd for my main rig. Gotta buy dem christmas presents first. And as I don't have a NAS atm, I'd need a pretty big ssd and I'm not ready to drop 300€ for a 500gb drive.

[buttmademewiser]

You can get a 1TB 840 EVO for $370 US on Newegg. I'm not sure where you live. Alternatively, 120GB can be found for $70.

Welcome to Finland where the prices fuck you.

[SeanBond]

Welcome to Finland where the prices fuck you.

Yeah that is terrible I hate hearing that. I just bought an m500 yesterday on sale for $80 usd. Is that like 50 euros? And that was a 240gb. Have you looked around where you can online for a deal?

[thekeemo]

dont get an SSD also I think its a GPU issue

[buttmademewiser]

dont get an SSD also I think its a GPU issue

Glorious onboard graphics race

[thekeemo]

Glorious onboard graphics race

well then it might be a cpu problem

[buttmademewiser]

Yeah that is terrible I hate hearing that. I just bought an m500 yesterday on sale for $80 usd. Is that like 50 euros? And that was a 240gb. Have you looked around where you can online for a deal?

I've looked online and it really isn't the problem. Extra price tag comes through pretty hard taxing and customs expenses.

[buttmademewiser]

After doing more reasearch I found out that it could also be a corrupted file that's causing the problem. System boots up fine in safe mode and until now has only occurred when I fire up Adobe LR 5.7. Watching yt videos or even gaming hasn't activated this problem. The funny thing is that after I e-mailed HP about the dead hdd in my desktop, they did say that it was just bad luck that it failed and they've never heard about hdd doing this thing before failing. That's why I don't really think it's dying but rather something is just corrupted.

So anybody have diagnostic ideas before I do a system restore? I'd rather not do that but will have to if nobody can come up with anything.

EDIT: What's that site/program that let's you install common programs all at one place (browsers, flash, steam etc.)