ASUS G60VX Having Problems

Hello everyone, this is my first post on this forum. I am having a very bad day because my laptop (which I love dearly) is having this random lag spike which makes a "buzz" sound for about a second and then stops. This happens throughout the day when I am doing the following.

1. Listening to music
2. Watching You-tube (haven't notice it doing it while watching movies on my HDD though.
3. GAMING "the worst part" yes indeed, it somehow decides to do this "buzz/lag" in the middle of the game (quite annoying.)

This has been going on for about a YEAR now, so I guess the GPU dying is not really an option ey?

I have cut the blue wire to my fan and my temps are pretty good going from 41C to 80c in game!

I am running DOX drivers (for best FPS)
and I am running Realtek HD drivers (did the buzz even without them)
and running all correct drivers that I need.

If anyone can help or/needs me to provide any more info here are the specs.

CPU: core 2 duo p7450
RAM 4gb DDR2
GPU: GTX260m 1gb GDDR3
you get the picture thanks everyone!

EDIT: I will also note that I have replaced my PSU about two weeks ago so I doubt it has anything to do with that either. I did go in and clean the heatsink out to the best of my ability as well and saw that there was not that much thermal paste on the cpu or gpu but I never overheat.

 

If it has been happening for a year that is going to be a tricky one to diagnose because if something was going to fail it would have failed by now

If it is not driver it could be the HDD. Run a health check with HDDtune although if it was it should have failed by now.

You can try drive sweeping your graphics drivers and running the latest official update and try that as well I have never got on with DOX drivers personally so it could easily be your problem.

 

Have you uninstalled the creative software? If not, do.

Is this buzz coming from the speakers/headphone out, or is it a noise coming from the chassis somewhere? If it's not audio, does the hard drive light coincide with the sound?

 

I completely understand what you are saying here and I wondered the same thing, so I am going to try testing the HDD and also I went ahead and sweeped up the GPU drivers and installed the 186.81 driver (its an older one but supposed to provide better fps) If you know a driver that has recent GOOD performance please tell me but for now that's my best option.

Sir it is CERTAINLY coming through both the speakers and the headphones, my laptop runs GREAT at very good temps, and I am running on a COMPLETELY clean Windows 7 Pro install, I got rid of the Home Prem that came with the laptop cause I can't stand bloatware.

Here is the health of the drive.

HD Tune Pro: ST9320423AS Health

ID Current Worst ThresholdData Status
(01) Raw Read Error Rate 114 95 6 69275989 ok
(03) Spin Up Time 98 97 85 0 ok
(04) Start/Stop Count 98 98 20 2190 ok
(05) Reallocated Sector Count 100 100 36 6 warning
(07) Seek Error Rate 68 60 30 125669162 ok
(09) Power On Hours Count 88 88 0 10581 ok
(0A) Spin Retry Count 100 100 97 0 ok
(0C) Power Cycle Count 99 37 20 2015 ok
(B8) End To End Error Detection 100 100 99 0 ok
(BB) Reported Uncorrectable Errors 1 1 0 1557 ok
(BC) Command Timeout 100 98 0 205 ok
(BD) (unknown attribute) 100 100 0 0 ok
(BE) Airflow Temperature 58 49 45 757202986 ok
(BF) G-sense Error Rate 100 100 0 7 ok
(C0) Unsafe Shutdown Count 100 100 0 71 ok
(C1) Load Cycle Count 1 1 0 209543 ok
(C2) Temperature 42 51 0 42 ok
(C3) Hardware ECC Recovered 58 53 0 69275989 ok
(C5) Current Pending Sector 100 100 0 5 warning
(C6) Offline Uncorrectable 100 100 0 5 ok
(C7) Ultra DMA CRC Error Count 200 200 0 0 ok
(F0) Head Flying Hours 100 253 0 8577 ok
(F1) LifeTime Writes from Host 100 253 0 -2119281681 ok
(F2) LifeTime Reads from Host 100 253 0 -1383698111 ok
(FE) (unknown attribute) 100 100 0 0 ok

Health Status : warning

 

Yep your HDD is registering a warning for Reallocated Sector count exactly the same as mine was shortly before it increased and then died. Run a health check and if any red sectors show up in the green Replace the HDD.

If you are replacing you would do well to pick up a cheap SATA II SSD and you will notice a huge performance gain compared to a broken mechanical drive.

I would still try the latest official drivers to see if that is the issue the ones you are using are quite old. There was a similiar issue caused by the Creative software as mentioned above but if you are just using Realtek that should not be the case.

 

What you are experiencing is probably a huge latency spike from an interrupt that is taking forever, it could definitely be the hard drive. It could also be from any other kind of driver though. Try the DPC latency checker to rule out things like the touchpad drivers and other things: DPC Latency Checker

 

I went ahead and got the latency check, everything in the green and all clear. Once I went and looked at a tutorial on how to wipe my drivers I went ahead and did it (got rid of all the nvidia folders EVERYWHERE) and did a complete reinstall of 186 drivers. So far I have not noticed the lag spike today or audio buzz but I do think that my hard drive is failing. There were at least 3 times the laptop has fallen from the desk (due to a cat in the house bumping into it.) and I think I might have had a bad feeling about it after awhile. I am completely broke right now and have owned this laptop since 2009. It's been THE BEST laptop I have EVER had. If one of you can link me to the cheapest good performing 7200rpm drive with at least 320 (original space) for this laptop I will be very thankful.

 

Does this look fine?

 

Quick update here. I went ahead and got this tool from one of my friends called HDD Regenerator and made a bootable DVD and it went ahead and repaired 5 bad sectors and that was all it found. So far after getting the drivers I have NOT heard any more of that buzzing sound and everything seems pretty smooth after repairing the sectors. Think maybe that was the problem after all or do you guys still think I need to rush and replace the HDD?

 

Run the free trial of HDD Sentinel, it will tell you the status of your hard drive and if you should replace it soon. I usually run hddsentinel from the hirens boot disc, though you can run it from windows as well.

Here's a link to the free trial

http://www.harddisksentinel.com/hdsentinel_trial_setup.zip

Here's a screen shot of hdd sentinel