Howdy, I need some insight on troubleshooting my wife's old laptop.
She has a 6 years old Toshiba satellite with an amdx2 processor. It acts up a lot, feels very sluggish, hangs a lot. It behaves like the hard drive would be faulty ( I've seen this happen a lot on desktops at work ).
But that's the thing where I'm stuck, everything checks up fine. I ran different tests and everything checks alright, but the laptop is still performing poorly ( mem test, HDD test, smart test, graphic/memory/cpu stress test and more... ). I picked up a copy of Hiren's boot cd and other various softwares and they all agree that the system is green, but performance is clearly affected even after a fresh windows 7 ultimate install.
The system *works* per say, but performance is sketchy at best. Laptop has been cleaned up.
Insights ? Thanks !
She has a 6 years old Toshiba satellite with an amdx2 processor. It acts up a lot, feels very sluggish, hangs a lot. It behaves like the hard drive would be faulty ( I've seen this happen a lot on desktops at work ).
But that's the thing where I'm stuck, everything checks up fine. I ran different tests and everything checks alright, but the laptop is still performing poorly ( mem test, HDD test, smart test, graphic/memory/cpu stress test and more... ). I picked up a copy of Hiren's boot cd and other various softwares and they all agree that the system is green, but performance is clearly affected even after a fresh windows 7 ultimate install.
The system *works* per say, but performance is sketchy at best. Laptop has been cleaned up.
Insights ? Thanks !