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    Getting massive lag once again

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by TheGreatMonkey, Nov 24, 2008.

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    TheGreatMonkey Notebook Enthusiast

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    When I bought myself 2 new hard drivers, must have been 1.5 months ago, I was getting massive lag when gaming. Tried everything and nothing worked. Then I decided to setup my drives for Raid 0. Ever since doing that, it's been going good, until about 3 days ago. Don't matter what i'm doing or anything, the computer lags like a mad man. I've gone from 20-30 sec restarts to almost 2 min restarts. Everything is update with it. It was working fine before I went to bed, and when I woke up, opened the lid and it started to happen. Took about 10 secs for the screen to show anything. I know it's not asleep cause I have all that stuff turned off. Only the power button will turn it off. Any ideas whats going on? Could it possible that my video card is failing on me?
     
    TheGreatMonkey, Nov 24, 2008
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    Not likely

    Do you overclock ....

    And why not try HD Tune to see if your hard drives are running at the right speed if they are then theirs nothing wrong with them hopefully ;) and you can turn your attention to the GPU but i don't know much about GPU failure...
     
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    Tested my HDD's, and they were fine. So is there anyway to test my GPU, to see if that is the problem?
     
    TheGreatMonkey, Nov 25, 2008
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    So I found a GPU stress test program. Ran that for about 3 hours. It was fine. Decided to test my ram. Let that run for about 5 hours. All good. After all that was done, I decided to Prime95 it. Customized the stress test so it will stress the right outta it. Let that run over night. About 8 hours. Fine. So anyone have anymore ideas? I'm right out. I know it's not spyware or anything as I scan that stuff twice as day. I also virus scan once a day. All up to date.
     
    TheGreatMonkey, Nov 26, 2008
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    Well i've had it with this thing. I'm going to be doing a fresh install of Windows on it and sell. Won't be using it all. I'll be building myself a computer. Thats what I should have done in the 1st place. I have nothing but problems with brand name computers. The last 2 laptops I had. My Acer and this one. Nothing but problems. Last 2 computers I had built, not a problem. Laptop before before those 2 computers, nothing but problems. Was in the shop more then in my house. Before that laptop, had a computer built for me. Not a problem. So 3 computers built, no problems. 3 laptops, nothing but problems. Maybe it's just laptops. I don't know. But after this, no more laptops, unless I can build it from scratch piece by piece.
     
    TheGreatMonkey, Nov 27, 2008
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