Weird Laptop Problem - Someone help please?

[Citadel535]

I have a Compaq Presario 2700T notebook. I have taken meticulous care of it, bought a fan to keep it cool, a case for storage even and can't understand why this would happen unless it was flawed from the start. However, recently my system has begun to "chug" while doing stuff. Every so often, the system will stop for around three ticks, work, stop again, work, stop again, work and then it clears up. I was thinking it was maybe the IDE ports reading data on cpu cycles. This is happenning every 5 minutes roughly and is absolutely annoying.

Within the first 6 months of owning the laptop, I had to RMA it back to Compaq because either the video card or motherboard was failing. When a window was moved, the display became all dotted and the system was randomly freezing, even after a clean install of Windows XP on my from my own. They fixed that problem by replacing the system board but now it's this. It's no longer under warranty so I don't know what to do with it. If anyone has any ideas on what's causing this, please let me know. Otherwise I am getting a Dell.

 

[stingbandel]

I am not 100% sure but I think there's something wrong with the hdd.

run the scandisc to see if there's any bad sector or not.

if you want another opinion, post this one on the SFF forum not here. You will get more responses there

 

[Jeff7]

Do a scandisk/chkdsk to look for bad sectors; also get AIDA32. In the program, go to the Storage section, then click on SMART. Check out the data for Raw Read Errors, Reallocated Sector Count, Seek Error Rate.....or better yet, just right click on the first Attribute Description and select Copy, and paste the results back here.
Example, here's what my IBM drive reports:

01 Raw Read Error Rate 62 100 100 0 OK: Value is normal
02 Throughput Performance 40 100 100 0 OK: Value is normal
03 Spin Up Time 33 141 100 1 OK: Value is normal
04 Start/Stop Count 0 100 100 1046 OK: Always passing
05 Reallocated Sector Count 5 100 100 0 OK: Value is normal
07 Seek Error Rate 67 100 100 0 OK: Value is normal
08 Seek Time Performance 40 100 100 0 OK: Value is normal
09 Power-On Time Count 0 97 97 1443 OK: Always passing
0A Spin Retry Count 60 100 100 0 OK: Value is normal
0C Power Cycle Count 0 100 100 979 OK: Always passing
BF G-Sense Error Rate 0 100 94 0 OK: Always passing
C0 Power-Off Retract Count 0 100 100 18 OK: Always passing
C1 Load/Unload Cycle Count 0 97 97 33253 OK: Always passing
C2 Temperature 0 148 93 17, 37 OK: Always passing
C4 Reallocation Event Count 0 100 100 0 OK: Always passing
C5 Current Pending Sector Count 0 100 100 0 OK: Always passing
C6 Off-Line Uncorrectable Sector Count 0 100 100 0 OK: Always passing
C7 Ultra ATA CRC Error Rate 0 200 200 0 OK: Always passing