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    Help me General question but I have a G50V-A1

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by jagg3d3d93, Nov 6, 2008.

  1. jagg3d3d93

    jagg3d3d93 Notebook Consultant

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    OK so I didnt click in the second switch for my battery on the bottom and I was lifting my notebook up to put in the ac plug because it was on my bed, and when I did I accidentally pulled the battery out, my laptop was on at the time and I lost power of course, I plug in my laptop and put the battery back in making sure I use the second locking switch and when I turned on my laptop I barely have functionality, xpress gate works fine, but when I start vista and log in it is ridiculously slow, I am trying to work around it and am defragging hoping something small is just being a major roadblock. The computer ran chkdsk when I booted it after losing power. Does anyone know what the problem could be? Does reformatting and starting fresh sound like my only hope? I hope not because this will be the second time a power issue has caused a reformat, and I swear if it happens I will destroy both Tesla and Edisons innovations!

    Please help me!
     
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    I've taken my battery out many times before while unplugged (by accident of course :rolleyes: ), but have never experienced a slow boot up. Usually your system will go through a system/hard drive check because it wasn't shut down properly, but other than that, everything works fine.
    I would probably check your hard drive for errors and if that doesn't work, I guess a fresh reinstall would be in order.
     
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    Yeah I don't understand what is wrong with it, and what is embarrassing is that I am a computer science major, haha. It took my computer almost a half hour to fully boot up and get running to mostly normal functionality, I am defragging as we speak and checking for errors. Then I might update drivers because I got some C++ runtime errors on boot up as well.
     
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    defraging will not help. it happens quite often in vista to me as well. Disable defender. Remove norton IS. Remove live update. Shut down fully then restart. After a crash like you had it is just running check and reports in the background. It is "normal"