Caporegime
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Well, i have no real reason to decide what the heck is the problem.
my rents laptop is basically just performing like something from the stone ages, literally a minute to open IE on its own.
i wasn't sure what the problem was, tried to run a few tests. got hdtach and well, sometimes it would perform semi ok, sometimes it would give a result of 50ish burst and 3mb/s sustained which is just dire. but with superpi, as diff errors can show cpu/mem issues, well, i ran one instance, simple 1 mb and 5mins 30ish seconds later and it was done. clearly no good, i then thought may aswell try two instances and i had task manager open, started the first one and it was only using 0-5% cpu power, just would not use the cpu at all, tried priority to high and nothing was happening. then i tried the other instance at the same time, not only did that core go to 50% but the first core(had then with affinity set to sep cores) also went up to 50% and it sped up very clearly. i tried it a few more times, on their own, together, starting one core first then the other and it was just completely random as to when the would decide to use the full core, then a couple times they would just use around 15% each. (i meant 50% of usage meaning the whole of one core just incase anyone misunderstands).
now, to be fair i've never seen this kind of issue in dozens of normal computers built by me, i've hard all kinds of software/hardware failures over the years. the thing is, nothing will actually throw an error, everything works. cpu-z shows most of the time it being at 1.6Ghz yonah core. dell laptop, inspiron 9600 i think(its downstairs, its far
) . 60Gb drive, 1gig mem. now the memory isn't maxed out, the cpu appears to be staying at its rated speed, its plugged into the mains with power settings to full. none of the software is crashing, no blue screens, just terrible performance and no obvious reason. i've had cpu's/boards and memory die and well, you tend to just get errors, or not. done the malware/spyware/trojan searches, while there was a lot of stuff adaware picked up it was mostly IE cookies/trackers and nothing significant, spybot got nothing extra. it came with mcaffee something or other, av, and a few other extra's and that scanning, after multiple hours due to the slowness, found nothing at all.
the only thing i could think was maybe somehow something got changed in software that was forcing everything to lowest priority or, well, got not a clue to be honest. it doesn't feel like a hardware failure. its only been bad for a couple of days and we must have got it, around july last year.
my rents laptop is basically just performing like something from the stone ages, literally a minute to open IE on its own.
i wasn't sure what the problem was, tried to run a few tests. got hdtach and well, sometimes it would perform semi ok, sometimes it would give a result of 50ish burst and 3mb/s sustained which is just dire. but with superpi, as diff errors can show cpu/mem issues, well, i ran one instance, simple 1 mb and 5mins 30ish seconds later and it was done. clearly no good, i then thought may aswell try two instances and i had task manager open, started the first one and it was only using 0-5% cpu power, just would not use the cpu at all, tried priority to high and nothing was happening. then i tried the other instance at the same time, not only did that core go to 50% but the first core(had then with affinity set to sep cores) also went up to 50% and it sped up very clearly. i tried it a few more times, on their own, together, starting one core first then the other and it was just completely random as to when the would decide to use the full core, then a couple times they would just use around 15% each. (i meant 50% of usage meaning the whole of one core just incase anyone misunderstands).
now, to be fair i've never seen this kind of issue in dozens of normal computers built by me, i've hard all kinds of software/hardware failures over the years. the thing is, nothing will actually throw an error, everything works. cpu-z shows most of the time it being at 1.6Ghz yonah core. dell laptop, inspiron 9600 i think(its downstairs, its far
) . 60Gb drive, 1gig mem. now the memory isn't maxed out, the cpu appears to be staying at its rated speed, its plugged into the mains with power settings to full. none of the software is crashing, no blue screens, just terrible performance and no obvious reason. i've had cpu's/boards and memory die and well, you tend to just get errors, or not. done the malware/spyware/trojan searches, while there was a lot of stuff adaware picked up it was mostly IE cookies/trackers and nothing significant, spybot got nothing extra. it came with mcaffee something or other, av, and a few other extra's and that scanning, after multiple hours due to the slowness, found nothing at all.the only thing i could think was maybe somehow something got changed in software that was forcing everything to lowest priority or, well, got not a clue to be honest. it doesn't feel like a hardware failure. its only been bad for a couple of days and we must have got it, around july last year.