Running MUCH Slower...

Okay, it's a long and boring story. Several months ago, I got the dreaded BSOD at boot. Basically, it looked like my only choice was format my hard drive and re-install everything from scratch, I couldn't get anything to work.

But, finally after trying the repair disk, I believe, for the hundredth time, I finally got it to boot. It ran slow. However, as I got things going, it seemed fine for quite a while.

Since then, however, it's run increasingly slow. Photoshop is painstakingly slow and tells me "Photoshop has encountered a problem with the display driver, and has temporarily disabled GPU enhancements. Check the video card manufacturer's website for latest software." at boot, and I used to get errors from iTunes saying "Cannot save library, memory full." very randomly after running it for a while, and it'd eventually freeze.

I don't know what else to tell you, so hopefully somebody here can catch on to the problem. I've downloaded every driver update from Dell.

I have an XPS M1530.

 

Back up your data (docs, etc.) and do a clean install. This will most likely fix your issue. Windows is an enigma in itself - sometimes things just become hosed.

 

Yeah, when I read this I was thinking the same thing. At first I thought video drivers issue, but as I read on it seems like a lot of issues. A clean install would be your best fix =-P

 

That dreaded BSOD, remember what the STOP error was on that?

You can try downloading newer video card drivers from the NVIDIA website rather than from Dell.

If reinstalling doesn't fix the errors, you'll be looking at a hardware issue, possibly the hard drive going bad.

 

Since it was so long ago, I honestly can't remember much at all about the error I got.

I was pretty much thinking a clean install was my best option, but I just wanted to double check.

I'll give that a try this weekend and see how it goes.