Computer Grinds, and Grinds and Grinds

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dinows

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When I start my HP Pavillion a430n in the morning it takes 20 minutes before I can really use it. All it does is grind. The memory is only half used and I basically use it for the internet and store pictures. I run Spybot every day. The only clue I can give you is the "High Disc Usage warning" pops up quite often. Any ideas ? (512mb, 160 ghz )
Thanks in advance Dino
 
Lets make sure you don't have an infection causing this. Do the following in order.

1.

Please download and run TDSSkiller

When the program opens, click on the start scan button.

TDSSKiller will now scan your computer for the TDSS infection. When the scan has finished it will display a result screen stating whether or not the infection was found on your computer. If it was found it will display a screen similar to the one below.

infection-found.jpg


To remove the infection simply click on the Continue button and TDSSKiller will attempt to clean the infection.

When it has finished cleaning the infection you will see a report stating whether or not it was successful as shown below.

scan-completed.jpg


If the log says will be cured after reboot, please reboot the system by pressing the reboot now button.

After running there will be a log that will be located at the root of your c:\ drive labeled tdsskiller with a series of numbers after it. Please open the log and copy and paste it back here.

2.

Please download Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware from here or here and save it to your desktop.
  • Double-click mbam-setup.exe and follow the prompts to install the program.
  • At the end, be sure a checkmark is placed next to
    • Update Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware
    • and Launch Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware
  • then click Finish.
  • If an update is found, it will download and install the latest version. Please keep updating until it says you have the latest version.
  • Once the program has loaded, select Perform quick scan, then click Scan.
  • When the scan is complete, click OK, then Show Results to view the results.
  • Be sure that everything is checked, and click Remove Selected.
  • A log will be saved automatically which you can access by clicking on the Logs tab within Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware

If for some reason Malwarebytes will not install or run please download and run Rkill.scr, Rkill.exe, or Rkill.com. If you are still having issues running rkill then try downloading these renamed versions of the same program.

EXPLORER.EXE
IEXPLORE.EXE
USERINIT.EXE
WINLOGON.EXE

But DO NOT reboot the system and then try installing or running Malwarebytes. If Rkill (which is a black box) appears and then disappears right away or you get a message saying rkill is infected, keep trying to run rkill until it over powers the infection and temporarily kills it. Once a log appears on the screen, you can try running malwarebytes or downloading other programs.



Download the HijackThis installer from here.
Run the installer and choose Install, indicating that you accept the licence agreement. The installer will place a shortcut on your desktop and launch HijackThis.

Click Do a system scan and save a logfile

Most of what HijackThis lists will be harmless or even essential, don't fix anything yet.

When the hijackthis log appears in a notepad file, click on the edit menu, click select all, then click on the edit menu again and click on copy. Come back to your reply and right click on your mouse and click on paste.

Post the logfile that HijackThis produces along with the Malwarebytes Anti-Malware log
 
When you say grind, is it actually grinding, as in making a grinding sound, or is it just feverishly reading the drive? It could be an indicator of a failing drive, especially if it's making any unusual sounds.
 
Thanks, will download the programs, in answer to "Blown Five" It keeps "clicking" very very fast. and I think they call that grinding.

Thanks Dino
 
Sounds like your Hard drive is failing to me...have you had any blue screens or failed boots?
 
Sounds like the disk might be full. How much free space do you have? I'd recommend you transfer everything you need on that system to an external drive, then run disk cleanup, ccleaner, malwarebytes, and then auslogics disk defrag (defrag + optimise) and see how the system runs after that. Also check msconfig (Start > Run > msconfig) boot tab for startup entries. The majority of them aren't needed.
 
Well after reading what was posted and trying everything to no avail i feel the machine is probably breaking down do to old age. So what I am going to do is buy another one on Ebay using the specs from the last post. In any event Thanks to all who tried to help
 
dinows said:
Well after reading what was posted and trying everything to no avail i feel the machine is probably breaking down do to old age. So what I am going to do is buy another one on Ebay using the specs from the last post. In any event Thanks to all who tried to help
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what do you mean by specs from last post?

Your deserving of a new computer as old as this one is. If my computer is over 2 years old I go nuts.
 
don't buy off of ebay, overpriced garbage all the time and when it says gaming it means it sounds all good but it won't play much of anything new. tell us how much you want to spend and either we can link a computer or a build which would be much better
 
put your files on flash drive or something and reinstall windows with factory disk or windows disk, if you still have problem you most likely have failing hardware.

I like to reinstall windows every year (don't recommend if you have an SSD though)
 
Yes John, I did and thank you, but nothing helped so I got diguested and bought a new (used ) one. It is an upgraded unit, is there anyway to tell if the componants inside are what they are supposed to be ?

Thanks Dino
 
Well maybe I jumped the gun, I was just so damn disguested with 15 minutes of grinding and clicking before I could get on, but having said that what I bought was a Dell GX620 3.0 GHz duel core, 2gb, interlaced DDR2 Memory. Whatever the hell all that means, but the guy said it was supposed to be a good unit. Who knows maybe I got taken. I paid 139.00
 
it's not bad, and for 140, if it comes with windows, which it should, it's not that bad, coulda done worse, but it's not great.
 
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