[afranz]

hi,
i have a sony vaio. it's a few years old and i'm having issues with it lagging when i do anything from open documents to loading web pages. i'm not sure how to go about getting the lagging and noise to stop. it's not the fan as it's been replaced recently and i'm fairly certain its not the hard drive. i think it may have to do w/ programs running/starting up in the background/when i log on. any help would be appreciated.
thanks, amber.

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Hello afranz, and welcome to the forum.

Can you give some background on this system? Did you ever have a BSOD or restart of the system while you were working on it? Are there any disks left in the CD/DVD drives while this 'background noise' is happening? Why do you think it is not the hard drive?

[dbreeze]

Hello afranz, and welcome to the forum.

Can you give some background on this system? Did you ever have a BSOD or restart of the system while you were working on it? Are there any disks left in the CD/DVD drives while this 'background noise' is happening? Why do you think it is not the hard drive?

[afranz]

thank you. i've never had a BSOD or it randomly restart while working on it. and there are no disks in the CD/DVD drive. when i went to get my fan replaced they told me it was not the hard drive. although, now that the noise that my fan was making is gone i'm thinking it might be a hard drive issue as there is this constant 'loading' noise.

[Naathim]

Hi.

Backup your important data to some external place in the case that your HDD is going to die.

Let's check for the errors and other stuff.


Please download MiniToolBox by Farbar and save it to your desktop.

Close any open browsers!

Run MiniToolBox by double-clicking the icon
(Users of Windows Vista and above please right-click and choose Run as Administrator).

You will be presented with this window:

Checkmark the following checkboxes:

• List last 10 Event Viewer log
• List Installed Programs
• List Devices
• List Users, Partitions and Memory size.
• List Minidump Files

Click Go and post the result (Result.txt). A copy of Result.txt will be saved in the same directory the tool is run.

Post it's content into your next reply.

[afranz]

thank you for the reply. i have my 'documents' folder, music, pictures and everything on my desktop saved to an external hard drive. should i add anything else on it? ill let you know what the outcome is in regards to your suggestion.
thanks.

[afranz]

see txt file below.
amber.  Result.txt   14.2KB   212 downloads

[Naathim]

Hi,

Please follow the steps linked below and perform a clean boot.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929135
How is your PC's behavior in it?

Unroll clean boot and reboot normally.

Click Start and type command in the search box. Right click on Command Prompt at the top and select Run as Administrator.
Type in

sfc /scannow

and press Enter.
Let it run to completion.

If it says it couldn't fix everything, then copy the next two lines:

findstr /c:"[SR]" \windows\logs\cbs\cbs.log > \windows\logs\cbs\junk.txt
notepad \windows\logs\cbs\junk.txt

then lick Start and type command in the search box. Right click on Command Prompt at the top and select Run as Administrator, then right click and Paste or Edit then Paste and the copied line should appear -> hit Enter.
Copy and paste the text from notepad or if it is too big, just attach the file.

[afranz]

thank you. you should see my text file below. what do you mean when you said, "How is your PC's behavior in it?"
thanks.  junk.txt   48.48KB   137 downloads

[Naathim]

I mean:
Does it also sound like still loading something during the clean boot?

Edited by Naathim, 20 November 2013 - 08:37 AM.

[afranz]

yes. as well as after. but, it's not as bad. now, i just hear the fan 'revving' occasionally.

[Naathim]

SFC repaired some corrupted files.

Any better?

If not, we will dig deeper.

[afranz]

it's better. although, the 'loading noise' is still happening even w/ a lot of programs not starting automatically.
thanks.

[Naathim]

Happy to hear that.

If you encounter any other issues - please let me know.

Glad we could help

[afranz]

thank you for your help.