Sager NP5793 Performance Issues

Hey Everyone,
I received my new Sager NP5793 just a few weeks ago. Right out of the box this thing was amazing. I immediately got my applications installed (and a game, Counterstrike) and back to work.
Everything has been absolutely perfect until today. All of a sudden my performance has decreased greatly. I'm talking about opening applications, or files, etc... The amount of time to load or open is excruciating.
I haven't done anything recently (no new installations, etc).

Any ideas?

Sager NP5793
2.5 Duo Core T9300
4gb Ram
160gb 7200rpm
Geforce 8800 GTX

 

virus?????

 

What is its power settings?

 

1) ensure power settings are on high performance
2) spyware/adware should be removed if on system
3) Try stopping some programs from running on startup and see if that helps any

 

What's your OS?

 

Hey everyone,
I've done a virus scan (AVG Free) and came up with nothing.
My power settings are on AC ( I even took out my battery)
My operating system is WinXP Professional.
I've filtered the junk out and everything, what should I check next?

 

Do you have the intel turbo memory thing

 

i thought the turbo mem was only for vista?

 

Get Perfect Disk and run a boot time defrag and then a smart placement defrag, it is a free program for first 30 days... cause it works so well they know you will buy it. If this does nothing you seriously messed something up, gotta be some program that runs at boot in the background stealing your power so also get a program called simply "Whats Running" and you can see exactly what programs are taking what resources. Also try running BlacklightRootKitEliminator and see if anything pops up. If you still can't solve the problem I recommend backing up important data and REFORMATTING. Then get a good Anitvirus and anitspyware program because some new bugs once they get passed the first line your screwed. Be very careful what you put on your computer.

 

I appreciate the replies.
No, I don't have any Turbo Memory.
I'll give bigjohnsonforever's ideas a try. I know for sure nothing has gotten installed that shouldn't be (well, at least 99.9%). The first things I installed when running this computer were a firewall and anti-virus.

I think I might re-format. I started to do this but I couldn't get to a formatting option. The only options I was given when I put in the recovery cd were to recover an installed copy of win xp, or install another copy along with the current.

Any tips on getting my Sager NP5793 back to factory settings?

 

doesnt matter if you installed av first or last ALL AV'S MISS THINGS.. even the best of them.. and no offense to anyone but imo avg free is not in the best of them.. there are MUCH better av's out there. again no offense.. all av's miss things. not a single one is 100% some are around 98-99% but thats at the best of the best..

to get back to factory use the xp disk and do a fresh install then use the driver disk and reinstall them from that dont worry about the recovery disk

 

Formatting can be done from the Win XP setup(during boot) When u select and prepare the hard disc partition on which u need to install the OS!!

Just put in ur XP CD and boot from it!

OR

U can download DBAN - http://dban.sourceforge.net/

Burn it on a CD or run it via a USB stick and boot from it to completely wipe ur HDD before an OS reinstall!!

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btw u should try CCleaner - http://www.filehippo.com/download_ccleaner/

And run a normal and registry cleanup with it regularly!! Reg issues may be causing ur machine to slow down!!

I run CCleaner on my NP5793 nearly every day now!!

Also defragging as bigjohnsonforever said will also help a lot!!

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Also check out Filehippo.com for free Anti-Virus and other useful stuff!!

And after installing windows, run windows update!! btw do u have SP3??
cause if u don't then get it pronto!!

 

All of you rock. Thank you so much for all the tips.
I'm running Perfect Disk right now, won't be done until tomorrow.
If that doesn't straighten things out I'm going to go for a full re-format.
If anyone has anymore tips or has experienced the same problem, let the comments fly.
Cheers.

 

there *could* be so many things we can tell you to try some may help some may not a format is the best bet at this point imo unless it gets straightend up..

 

May be a hijack this screen can point out the culprits.

 

Look at processes under Task Manager and sort by CPU usage. See if there are any resources that are using a high amount of your CPU.

 

I ran my virus/malware scan and found nothing.
I ran PerfectDisk defrag, that made no difference.
So I just formated the sucker and so far things are back to normal, if not faster. I have no idea what happened.

 

was it originally shipped with XP ?
After the fresh install, get XP SP3 too.
If not , move on to vista, after SP1 Vista actually became an OS for me