Please Help! 9260 Crashed and Now...

Hi, I would call Sager but I am in Scotland for a week and don't want to spend an hour on the phone with Sager at international long distance rates.

My Sager 9260 crashed yesterday. Upon restarting, it began running EXTREMELY slowly. I tried everything from virus scanning, registry scanning, defragmenting, turning off nearly every unnecessary service I could think of, check disking, and then even used the Windows CD to do a repair. Finally, when I had tried all of this and more, I did a clean install after reformatting, but my Sager continues to run as though I was back in 1999. This has led me to believe that the problem is in the hardware somewhere. What do you guys think?

 

Describe slowly a bit more, in terms of: booting, shutting down, starting programs, display operations, copying, et cetera...

Did you run a ramtest, did you unplug al devices (usb and all), how do your resources perform (see taskbar), how many processes do you have running?

Maybe your system is installing or reorganizing things. Shutdown and restart and wait until all activity has eased down before login.

 

Hey. Sorry about the vagueness, but I was in kind of a hurry when I wrote the last post. I was playing a game when I got a BSOD, and when I restarted, booting to Windows took about 3 minutes, when it usually takes under 30 seconds from power on to desktop. I did try unplugging all external devices, and as I said before, I freed up all resources, though this shouldnt matter as I have a Core2 Duo and 4GB of RAM, all of which was functioning fine before the crash. I've shut down and restarted, done all the obligatory scans, and even, as you might have noticed from my previous post, REFORMATTED, which definitely means this is not a Windows problem. I was just seeing if anyone else had experienced anything similar or had any suggestions.

 

re-install os. make sure you raid is working if your using raid.

try system restore.

if it's slow in post it could be something worse.

 

Reformatted a second time, this time it worked. Not sure what happened, but it did occur the day after installing Vista SP1. lol

Thanks for the suggestions, guys.

 

Vista is a virus.
I was messing around with some benchmarks on my desktop with vista and xp.
Installed a few new patches for Vista, got alot of bluescreens then I couldnt boot at all, even to XP which is on a a different disk and neither XP or Vista can see each other.

Vista still managed to kill my Raid, boot sector and a few other things.
Wound up removing the Vista disk for good and using a backup image of XP to get the computer back up.

 

Vista x64 is solid here. No bluescreens at all. Actually bluescreens only XP gave me one (only use XP to play games).

Also Vista x64 has better multitasking then XP.

Trance

 

x64 what? I tried Home premium 32x and 64x.
I will slam my junk in a door 30 times before ever installing it again.

 

Gentlemen...no need for a vista flame war