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Hardware Problems, dead, dying, software, hardware, who knows

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neukoln333

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I'm running a 200gb Toshiba (I think) hard drive on my ACER Aspire 5672. I replaced the drive a while back because it was dying hard. Currently the disk remains operational, and the computer as well. For about a week and a half now my computer runs perfectly fine, except video and audio functions lag noticeably. The audio is glitchy and sometimes runs on itself (think; robot voice.) Oddly though, the processes will run without the computer freezing or crashing.

I've ran chkdsk, downloaded a good anti virus program, deleted much content (went from about 15 free gigs to 60) ran disk fragmentation, and now I'm out of ideas. All report the hard drive and the computer are in good condition; no bad sectors found, no spyware or malware found. Nothing.

What I really want to know is if there is any way I could fix this problem without having to replace the hard drive. My naive hope leads me to believe I could somehow isolate the bad sectors into a different partition that my computer knows to avoid. But then again, I don't know if its a hard drive problem for sure.

Please let me know if you can make any sense of this. I hope I have provided enough information.
 
start running hardware test, run the extended hd test, memtest86, use speedfan and chk for proc overheat.
 
The most likely cause is either malware or mis-behaving software. But you also need to check out the basic hardware, as blazer suggests.

If there's a hard disk problem, you should see disk-related errors in the Windows System Event Log. Chkdsk or "Chkdsk /f"by itself won't necessary find bad sectors. Run "Chkdsk /r" if you haven't already. Well, first....make a backup of anything that you don't have copies of.

If you have disk errors (which I don't really suspect), I wouldn't suggest trying to repair them. They'll likely come back. Just replace the hard disk.
 
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