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    Aspire 5101AWLMi problems

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by ZonerDude, Oct 10, 2007.

  1. ZonerDude

    ZonerDude Newbie

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    I'm not quite sure how to accurately describe the problem I'm having. Suffice it to say that the computer is running incredibly slow. It's on Vista and these are the specs.

    Aspire 5101AWLMi, 1GB DDR2 ram, 80GB hdd, MK-36 2.0ghz, Xpress 1100.

    I have tried doing a clean restore of Vista and that did not help things at all. Anything at all that uses video or sound slows the computer down to almost unusable levels. Video stutters, audio stutters. Now even word and firefox can barely work without that blue circle [vista equivalent of hourglass] running every time you try and do something as simple as scroll the page. Everything runs incredibly slow now. If anyone has any advice, I would really appreciate it as I've tried to find a solution to this problem without any luck. Even the DVD drive doesn't come up now. The only clue I can find is that in the device manager it lists two 'ATA Channel 0', one 'ATA Channel 1' and two 'Standard PC IDE Controller'. Could this be the culprit, and if so, how do I fix it?
     
    ZonerDude, Oct 10, 2007
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  2. Hairy_Lee

    Hairy_Lee Notebook Consultant

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    It definately sounds like a hard drive or hard drive related. I say hard drive related because i know of an issue with the 5100 series of notebooks where there was a bad batch of southbridge chips fitted to the mainboards and it causes data corruption and poor performance in hard drive related tasks. It may eventually get to the point where the hard drive isn't even recognised by the mainboard.
    either way its going to involve a part replacement of some description.
     
    Hairy_Lee, Oct 11, 2007
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