Asus A8Js screwed!!!

My laptop has been acting funny since the past 2 days. Its become so slow. Windows starts up in like 10 minutes. To shut down, it takes another 10 minutes. Sometimes it runs fine, but say, when I start Firefox or any normal application, it again becomes slow and the mouse pointer jerks and moves and the HDD light is blinks at low intensity, then after like 20 minutes it gets OK. Again if I start an application, or even sometimes when I'm working on an application, this thing happens.

I've checked registry, system cleaner, antivirus, but no help.

Please help.

 

I'll wager it's not the laptop, it's the operating system. Backup and re-install!

 

Have you tried to recover ur laptop using the recovery partition? In these conditions you described it is better to start over with a clean slate.

 

It sounds like your hard drive may be in PIO mode. Have you checked that? Go into the Device Manager and right click on your hard drive and see what mode it is in.

 

I cant see any PIO mode option. I right clicked on the hard drive but cudnt see any options.

 

Hello!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Have you defragged your hard drive recently? If not, try that.

If you've run antivirus and antimalware apps and nothing comes up, I'd second (or third) the advice to do a clean install of the OS. Backup your files and start over.

 

i have defragged my hard drive......which took too long.....do i just reinstall windows or re-format the whole thing and make a clean install??

 

Format i'd say. I'd be tempted to think it was a hard drive fault but it could be the OS.

Open the device manager and click to get a list of IDE controllers. Right click on both IDE channel controllers and click properties, then go to the advanced settings tab. Make sure it says 'DMA if available'.

 

I agree with Caleb. Sounds a LOT like a hard drive in PIO mode. Do you see a lot of CPU usage when copying files?

Have you run Windows update lately, updated your chipset drivers at all or anything? That's usually the culprit in these matters.

 

Bring up the BIOS setup by pressing F2 when you turn on the laptop.
The go to the part for HDD.And see if the PIO mode is active.

 

My windows is updated automatically so there is no problem in that. Plus Asus Live Update updates any possible old drivers. I really think its a fault in the HDD. Actually the thing is I dont wanna format because then I will loose all my installed stuff.
Will reinstalling Windows over the present copy help?
Please suggest as much as possible solutions Thanks.

 

The Transfer Mode is set to DMA If Available
The Current Transfer Mode show PIO Mode

 

Well actually I saw the the BIOS options
There is no option to disable PIO. The options are:
Auto
0
1
2
3
4

Above it was mentioned 4 and the setting was set to Auto.
I changed it to 0 but still no help.

 

According to here:
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/storage/IDE-DMA.mspx
The PIO mode will be enabled if the HDD is giving CRC errors (It means the HDD might be damaged)
But you can force the DMA mode and see what happens.
The rest is paste from Microsoft.com

 

So does that mean my HDD is defective??

 

This is what I have. Please Help!!!!
I hope the HDD is OK

 

This is common...for Windows. It does this if it encounters errors. The reason it is so stupid is that these errors could be caused by a bad CD. Yet the controller will forever be in PIO mode.

Just remove the controller from Device Manager and reboot. It should go back to DMA mode.

 

thanks man that worked!!!!!!!!!!!
thanks i actually thought my hard disk drive was gone