PC slow

Dawelio

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Hey guys,

So I started noticing yesterday that my PC were slow at booting... it was as normal into Windows, but then it took about a 1+ min to actually boot all the pictures on my desktop and load all the programs such as Skype, Teamspeak, Corsair Link etc etc.
It has never done this before.

Now I've started to notice inside Chrome, that when scrolling down a site or switching pages, that it's slow and lagging... also noticing a CPU spike from about 10% up to 50+% from just that. It has never stressed that much by just refreshing a page lol.

Any idea what this can be caused by?... I have Windows 8.1 64 Bit if that's for any info?

As at first I thought it was my PC that was dying, but Feronix kinda quickly ruled that out as it booted into Windows just fine, just were slow at actual loading everything.
Even though I'm on an Samsung 840 Pro 256GB SSD. Can it be dying though?...

Thanks guys,
Chrazey
 
Dident the 840's have slow down problems over time? i think Samsung relesed new firmware for them.
Try a ssd bench and see if its the drive
 
In task manager, go to startup and order by startup impact. Try disabling some on boot.
Though it seems the problem is lying elsewhere as it happens after boot.

Open resource monitor and check to make sure you aren't getting tonnes of hard faults/sec.

Try disabling hardware acceleration in Chrome.

You can run a S.M.A.R.T check on the 840 pro in Samsung Magician just to be sure.
 
In task manager, go to startup and order by startup impact. Try disabling some on boot.
Though it seems the problem is lying elsewhere as it happens after boot.

Open resource monitor and check to make sure you aren't getting tonnes of hard faults/sec.

Try disabling hardware acceleration in Chrome.

You can run a S.M.A.R.T check on the 840 pro in Samsung Magician just to be sure.

Will do, thanks! Will post back once I've got more info.

What are "hard faults/sec" though?, so I know what I should look for?...
Is resource monitor a 3rd party of built into Windows?...

@Barnsley - I'm not really sure, in the Autostart folder in the start menu I only have MSI Afterburner (980Ti custom fan curve) and Teamspeak 3.
Gonna check in Task Manager as well once I get on the PC.
 
Will do, thanks! Will post back once I've got more info.

What are "hard faults/sec" though?, so I know what I should look for?...
Is resource monitor a 3rd party of built into Windows?...

@Barnsley - I'm not really sure, in the Autostart folder in the start menu I only have MSI Afterburner (980Ti custom fan curve) and Teamspeak 3.
Gonna check in Task Manager as well once I get on the PC.

You can get to it at the bottom of the performance tab in task manager. Look at the memory tab and in particular the graph labeled hard faults/sec.
Hard faults are when the OS has to access the page file on disk. It basically kills performance if it's being done constantly or when performing a particular task. When it's in the background it's fine and will write some pages to disk, particularly when switching apps.
 
You can get to it at the bottom of the performance tab in task manager. Look at the memory tab and in particular the graph labeled hard faults/sec.
Hard faults are when the OS has to access the page file on disk. It basically kills performance if it's being done constantly or when performing a particular task. When it's in the background it's fine and will write some pages to disk, particularly when switching apps.

I've looked now and it doesn't seem to do anything really... does some spikes now and then, but most frequently it's just like small mountains, like if you look on the horison.

Chrome seemed to open up fast this time... and the icons were like normal at first inital booted into Windows, but then went white again and then after a minute or so, it all booted like normal.

I just don't understand why it's like freezing for a min? :(
 
I've looked now and it doesn't seem to do anything really... does some spikes now and then, but most frequently it's just like small mountains, like if you look on the horison.

Chrome seemed to open up fast this time... and the icons were like normal at first inital booted into Windows, but then went white again and then after a minute or so, it all booted like normal.

I just don't understand why it's like freezing for a min? :(

Ok that's good.

You could try doing driver/BIOS updates. Though if this has just started happening then it's most not likely related to those. Are you running AV software?
 
Ok that's good.

You could try doing driver/BIOS updates. Though if this has just started happening then it's most not likely related to those. Are you running AV software?

I've never done any BIOS updates at all and quite frankly a bit uncomfortable/scared of doing them. And yes, it just started like 2 days ago.

I am running Kaspersky Internet Security 2015.
 
I've never done any BIOS updates at all and quite frankly a bit uncomfortable/scared of doing them. And yes, it just started like 2 days ago.

I am running Kaspersky Internet Security 2015.

BIOS update shouldn't be necessary.

Is it just Chrome?
 
BIOS update shouldn't be necessary.

Is it just Chrome?

Is it just Chrome?, what do you mean?... That is like hanging/freezing for a min before starting up?.

No it's everything mate... every program. The only program that actually boots up is Corsair Link, although it doesn't function properly at first. Once everything is going into full actual boot, it goes to normal (ie. GPU and GPU fan speeds and temp aren't stuck at 0, but rather spins up and goes to normal ~45C.
 
Is it just Chrome?, what do you mean?... That is like hanging/freezing for a min before starting up?.

No it's everything mate... every program. The only program that actually boots up is Corsair Link, although it doesn't function properly at first. Once everything is going into full actual boot, it goes to normal (ie. GPU and GPU fan speeds and temp aren't stuck at 0, but rather spins up and goes to normal ~45C.

Try looking at the event viewer logs for errors. See if there's anything erroring often.
 
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