Laptop SSD slowdown

[Imglidinhere]

Rather recently, my machine has slowed down and started having some rather... peculiar bugs as of late. The foremost bug I've been having is one of my mouse, when I wake my machine from sleep, it's taking a LONG time to load my mouse drivers, either that or it's an overlay issue within Windows itself.

 

I have full control of my mouse cursor, but I can't left or right click anything for an indeterminate period of time. When the problem arose first, it lasted for literal hours. Recently it's more on the tune of about a minute. I'm using the Logitech G602, and it was bought new, maybe 5~ish months ago. Interestingly enough, it would highlight some items but not others, almost like an overlay issue. I can't really describe it as I've never seen it before, but the highlighted items I can open up, but I cannot interact with anything in the new window that opens.

 

It's been happening less as of the past day or so, but this is troubling to some extent as now my entire machine seems to be slowing down and all I can think of is that it's my main boot drive finally starting to die on me. Is there any merit to this idea? I can get a 250GB Western Digital Blue M.2 SSD for $74 right now, and I'm more than willing to drop the cash on said SSD if necessary, as my PC is pretty much my lifeblood at the moment. >~> (Laptop is in my signature.)

 

Thoughts?

 

 

P.S. Games are taking longer to save too, loading times are unaffected, Malwarebytes picked up one item and killed it, but found nothing else, so I'm out of ideas. Halp.

[Radium_Angel]

Step 1: Check hard drive for errors with manufacturer tools (seatools for seagate, WDDiags for WD drives, etc.)

Step 2: Run Memtestx86 for a minimum of 24 hours on your RAM, that will ensure if it's good, or not.

Step 3: SFC from a command prompt, that should figure out Windows corruption

Step 4: the usual malware scan(s)

Step 5: CPU Crusher test, to ensure it's okay and the laptop isn't overheating.

[Imglidinhere]

35 minutes ago, Radium_Angel said:

Step 1: Check hard drive for errors with manufacturer tools (seatools for seagate, WDDiags for WD drives, etc.)

Step 2: Run Memtestx86 for a minimum of 24 hours on your RAM, that will ensure if it's good, or not.

Step 3: SFC from a command prompt, that should figure out Windows corruption

Step 4: the usual malware scan(s)

Step 5: CPU Crusher test, to ensure it's okay and the laptop isn't overheating.

CPU isn't overheating, I have Coretemp and XTU both reading fair temps, though it IS in need of a repaste, that's for sure.

SSD shows no errors, HDD was 1% fragmented.

SFC fixed one corrupted file, but the issue persists still even after a reboot.

Malwarebytes picked up and removed a single program: adware.norassie

 

Checking memtestx86 now to see if my RAM is the culprit... but that's never caused a mouse cursor issue before, for me.  

[genexis_x]

Have you tried running latencymon? Maybe you can try clean Windows install