Computer very chuggy, mouse moves chuggily too

imported_myst

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This started today..
My mouse stutters across the screen when i move it, and my computer is performing very sluggishly

when i try to watch movies, it like chugs every 2 seconds for 0.5 seconds or so, and repeats (doesnt matter what drive the movie is on)

earlier my hard drive shut off, while i was in windows..

any suggestions what this could be?
is it my video card? my hard drive? something else?
my computer isnt overheating (at least not the cpu) its underclocked

also when im downloading something this happens, or when moving files from drive d (my main windows install drive) to any other drive.
everything works fine if i load up an os on another hard drive.. theres no problems at all with any drives

heres a summary of my computer. i have no strange apps open in the background

 

suszterpatt

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also when im downloading something this happens, or when moving files from drive d (my main windows install drive) to any other drive.
everything works fine if i load up an os on another hard drive.. theres no problems at all with any drives
This suggests either a HD or OS issue. Try some registry cleaners, defragging, etc to tidy up the OS. If the problem persists, it may very well be the hard drive.


edit: good call on the virtual memory thing, definately free up some space on that drive (defragging is a good first step)
 

imported_myst

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i have 3 hard drives, an os installed on 2 of them. when i restarted and used my other os (which i dont use often cause i dont have any settings on it) everything ran fine..

i could watch movies perfectly from any of the 3 hds, move files from one hd to another, and all worked well

but my main os is acting weird.
for example, if i move my mouse across the screen when watching a movie (on any hd) or moving files or even downloading files, itll freeze every 2 seconds for about 0.5 seconds, and my comp will chug
 

suszterpatt

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Yeah, that sounds like you're running out of virtual memory and the OS needs to dump parts of the paging file.
 

Shaftatplanetquake

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Ok. Your problem is now clear to me since I re-read your attached code. You have 500 Megabytes free on the partition that your HDD is on. Your hard drive is working very very hard to find a place to write each and every byte. The small amount of space you have left is probably not continual as far as the sectors/clusters/raw hard drive storage writable areas are concerned. Basically, you need to clear up at least 2 gigabytes AND fully defagment.
 

Shaftatplanetquake

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Originally posted by: Shaftatplanetquake
Ok. Your problem is now clear to me since I re-read your attached code. You have 500 Megabytes free on the partition that your HDD is on.

I meant to say OPERATING SYSTEM
 

Nick5324

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whoa, I've been here for 4 years and never seen this "attach code"

Edit: Use the defragger in windows. There are better ones out there, but in your situation, it should be worth your time to run the windows defragger. Clear some space on the drive first with disk clean up, uninstall programs you don't use, delete files you don't care about, and move some stuff to another one of your HDD's.

Edit 2: Amazing, I've looked at this window to compose a post 1,495 times (not counting edits!) and never noticed the "attach code" button!
 

daftpunkit

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Edit: Use the defragger in windows. There are better ones out there, but in your situation, it should be worth your time to run the windows defragger. Clear some space on the drive first with disk clean up, uninstall programs you don't use, delete files you don't care about, and move some stuff to another one of your HDD's.

I *think* windows will give him an error or something saying it cannot defrag unless like 10% of the HD is free... I am not sure, but for some reason this sounds familiar.
 

firewall

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See if running in safe mode increases speeds since those are only the essential services/processes which are loaded. If the speed increases, that would mean some application loaded at startup is sucking up all the resources.
 

Chadder007

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Do a ALT+ Print Screen of your Windows Task manager processes for us. Though I have had a bad hard drive cause this on a computer before. It would slow the system down to a crawl just being plugged in. You could even pull data off of it, but it would take 30 times the normal amount of time.
 

Oyeve

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This happened on my current system awhile back, my SATA drive which had my OS was slow as heck, did some diags and found my ATA/100 drives were performing 200% faster! I switched the drive to another SATA connection and BAM! All was fast.
 

Chadder007

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Just noticed one of your hard drives is a Quantum Fireball.....worst hard drives I have ever dealt with. Almost every freaking one of them have died on us here at the hospital.

(Disk Drive WDC WD2500JB-00GVA0 (232 GB, IDE)
Disk Drive QUANTUM FIREBALLP AS40.0 (39 GB, 7200 RPM, Ultra-ATA/100)
Disk Drive ST380011A (80 GB, 7200 RPM, Ultra-ATA/100))
Download WD's diagnostic tools and install to a floppy to boot off of and let it run tests on all of the drives.
http://support.wdc.com/download/index.asp?cxml=n&pid=999&swid=2
 

Oyeve

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Originally posted by: Chadder007
Just noticed one of your hard drives is a Quantum Fireball.....worst hard drives I have ever dealt with. Almost every freaking one of them have died on us here at the hospital.
([/L]



Well, at least they died in a hospital, closer to the morgue. :)