Windows 8 acting slow and laggy

[Lukes111]

So my hardrive crashed when I had windows 7. So then I got a new one installed windows 8 everything was fast games were faster. But then my hard drive crashed again so I got a new hardline and installed windows again. But this time it s laggy/slow my screen resolution is messed up it won t show up. What happened? How do I fix this it used to be fast enough to play games on high now they lag and can t even play on low!

 

[beers]

Please define what happens when you experience a 'hard drive crash'.

 

[Lukes111]

Beeps the first time second time boot file was missing but now with the new hard rive the second time it is slowed down.

 

[johnb35]

What brand of drives are you getting? Are these new drives or used ones? Are you turning the machine off properly?

 

[Lukes111]

Sea gate. New hard drives. Yes and no. I've reinstalled windows at least 3 times and it just is slow and laggy and the screen resolution won't be normal. It recon,ands the wrong one it should be 1600 by 900 but it recommends 1074 by 784 which makes it all stretched. Is it my computer?

Could it be a driver needs updated? It's just that weird the very first time I installed windows it worked great now it's slow and lags.

Here's the hard drive I'm using http://www.bestbuy.com/site/seagate...ulti/8294632.p?id=1172880157923&skuId=8294632 And this is the one windows 8 ran perfect on http://www.bestbuy.com/site/seagate...ulti/8490625.p?id=1186003683968&skuId=8490625

 

[johnb35]

Check the device manager for any entry still needing a driver. Look under display adapter and tell me what it says.

 

[Lukes111]

Microsoft basic display adapter shows up.

 

[johnb35]

Thats just a generic driver. Is this a store bought pc or custom built computer? Right click on that entry and click on properties, then click on the details tab, change the property to hardware id and give me the 4 digit vendor and device Id numbers. I need the 4 digits after ven_ and dev_

 

[Lukes111]

Store brought upgraded to 6gb of ram.
There's 4 so I'll list them in order

1002 after ven and 9710 after dev.

 

[johnb35]

According to that you have the hd4200 series integrated video. The latest driver was back in january 2013.

http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/desktop/legacy?product=legacy2&os=Windows 8 - 64

 

[Lukes111]

Do I just download it? And should that solve my issue?

 

[johnb35]

Download it and run it and the driver will install. Then you should be able to get the max resolution from your monitor.

 

[Lukes111]

Ok thanks should that stop some of the lag to?

 

[johnb35]

Yes it should. Look at your other drivers too like wireless, ethernet, sound, chipset. You should visit the computer makers website and look up model number to get a list of drivers for it. It might not have windows 8 drivers though as the hd4200 is somewhat dated now.

 

[Lukes111]

Hey thanks this solved my issue sorry for late response internet was kicking on and off thanks again.

 

[tayorous]

This is one of the reasons that i havent upgraded

 

[Geoff]

This is one of the reasons that i havent upgraded

Windows 8.1 is very speedy. As long as you have a decent PC there's no reason not to upgrade.

 

[LinuxTester]

I think that for the screen resolution you need your graphics card drivers. For the "slow and laggy" check the specs needed for Win8. What is your GPU?