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    Check This Out.!! I Need Help

    Discussion in 'ASUS Gaming Notebook Forum' started by patomo09, Nov 17, 2011.

  1. patomo09

    patomo09 Newbie

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    i recently bought an asus g73sw-xn2 from ebay.. when i first boot it up i noticed that it took a long to fully boot and i formated the disk and installed a fresh windows 7.
    tdy i downloaded the hd tune to benchmark my disk.
    is this normal?
    thnx in advance.
    patrick
     

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  2. madnj

    madnj Notebook Consultant

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    Definitely not normal. That looks to be a bad/defective disk. Your read speed should dip a bit, but never to that extent.
     
    madnj, Nov 17, 2011
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  3. sarge_

    sarge_ Notebook Deity

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    Does your laptop contain the new revision chipset? If it's the old one, that might be the problem.
    Or the HDD is just f***ed.
     
    sarge_, Nov 17, 2011
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  4. Yiddo

    Yiddo Believe, Achieve, Receive

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    Agree with Sarge's final line mine was like this shortly before it died.

    On HDDchk run a health check and see if it registers broken sectors I reckon it will sadly you may need a new HDD.
     
    Yiddo, Nov 18, 2011
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    In any case, I would backup any important data ASAP.
     
    sarge_, Nov 18, 2011
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