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    Studio xps laptop problems...it just lags

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by lolarayyy, Sep 18, 2009.

  1. lolarayyy

    lolarayyy Newbie

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    I recently bought my laptop for college use, and it seemed fine when I brought it to campus. However, I don't believe I've done anything with the computer, but it suddenly lags..a lot.

    And by lags, I mean everything lags for a good minute minimum. YouTube, websites, typing (I'll type a sentence and watch a minute later as it slowly begins to appear), clicking, scrolling, and then Firefox will often freeze up on me only to unfreze moments later, but it's still an inconvenience. Essentially everything is lagging, and it's rather inconvenient and rather frustrating to have your computer constantly freezing/lagging/causing you issues.

    And for additional information, none of my files are stored on my laptop; they're all on a hard-drive that I carry around, and I routinely free up disk space on a weekly basis.

    Please, please help a clueless college student out here. It'd be rather unfortunate if I was typing up a grade making paper only to have it freeze and doom me to a miserable grade.
     
  2. Mr.High-Pinger

    Mr.High-Pinger Notebook Consultant

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    Contact dell support, might be harddrive issue.

    But which studio xps is it?
     
  3. Dayton

    Dayton Notebook Evangelist

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    Is this when plugged in or on the battery? If your power setting are set to energy savings then drives, espectially external ones, will be pretty aggressive about going to sleep. The system will be at a stand still until they wake.
     
  4. funky monk

    funky monk Notebook Deity

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    How much RAM do you have? From what I remember (I might be wrong on this though) is that the 2 gig equiped systems use 2x1gig sticks. If one of them came loose then you would only have 1 gig of RAM to play with which isn't enough seeing as vista it's self uses a bit over 1. This would mean that your computer is using it's page file a lot which would be respponsible for the lag.

    If you have 3 gig then the 2 gig stick could have come loose, it does no harm to check.
     
  5. chewyeong90

    chewyeong90 Notebook Evangelist

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    another factor would be viruses/spywares
     
  6. Sephoroth

    Sephoroth Notebook Evangelist

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    Check which processes are hogging the CPU in Task Manager whenever you experience the slowdowns. Is this only caused in certain programs (e.g. Firefox) or everywhere in general?