Computer hesitating

[BanginJimmy]

Probably a stupid question but over the last 2 or 3 weeks my computer is hesitating a lot. Videos stop and start every few seconds. Even something as simple as typing out this post its pretty bad and its really annoying.


What could be causing this? I am using the Comcast Norton Security Suite and I have also run Spybot S&D. Neither have come up with any spyware or viruses.

[Vteckidd]

Hard drive failing if its hard drive based videos

Disk defrag, repartion.

See if that helps

[BanginJimmy]

Web based videos, mostly youtube and break.

I've done disk defrag with no help.


Should have mentioned this, I have 2 500gig HD in RAID 0. How do I re partition without losing all my data?

[CSquared]

I was going to ask what processor/ram but I remembered you posted in the setup thread:


Gigabyte x58-ud3r mobo, i7 930 chip 6 gig OCZ gold ram. 2 500 gig WD green 7200 rpm HDs. Radon 5770 graphics.


Soooo, I figured I'd post that for reference and I otherwise have no idea. You Install/DL anything lately? I had a dell printer suite at one point that was a resource hog and making my computer run slow as shit.

[BanginJimmy]

The only thing I can think of is Norton. I cant see how that would be the problem though as I havent had the problems with my laptop which has half the power of this one.

Any chance it could be some deeply imbedded malware that a simple scan doesnt find?



Yea, should have added all that.

[Vteckidd]

That's a pretty stout computer, I retract my previous recommendation.

Uninstall Norton, reinstall see if that helps.

Could be a deep malware but I doubt it. Web based videos can ALWAYS be ISP.

But posting lag leads me to think its host based.

[Vteckidd]

Ghost your 2 500 gigs to a 1TB , repartition, reinstall.

[BanginJimmy]

looks like I will be heading to the store for an external drive so I dont lose everything. Maybe I will grab myself an SSD for a boot drive while I am there.

I should also add that I am using Windows 7 64 bit.

[green91]

Ive personally had video driver issues causes this problem with flash videos & amd cards. Try to update to the newest catalyst version directly from AMD's site.

If its a HD/RAID issue it will normally show timeout errors in the system event viewer. Sometimes its as simple as a sata controller driver.

[BanginJimmy]

Ive personally had video driver issues causes this problem with flash videos & amd cards. Try to update to the newest catalyst version directly from AMD's site.

If its a HD/RAID issue it will normally show timeout errors in the system event viewer. Sometimes its as simple as a sata controller driver.

I didn't even consider a gpu driver update. That would explain everything.

Thanks everyone for the help.

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[green91]

I didn't even consider a gpu driver update. That would explain everything.



Not saying its the problem, but its an easy fix to try!

[BanginJimmy]

Not saying its the problem, but its an easy fix to try!

Not saying it is either but it is something I should have thought about.

[BanginJimmy]

Figured I would update this.


Went to microcenter and picked up an SSD. Installed that along with a fresh install of everything. That went smooth and windows loads quick as hell now. Installed all of the windows updates, which took all freaking night. Next up was to install Comcast Norton Security Suite 5.0. That's when all the problems started. It simply will not load and run.

I am now up to my third level of of Norton support and have spent a total of 6 hours on the phone or with them having remote access to my desktop. By the end of the day Norton will damn their damn lead programmer working on this.

Any of you tech gurus know anything about any kinds of hardware conflict issues with Norton and SSD's? This installed and worked perfectly when I had my 2 WD drives in RAID0.

Full specs.
Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit
Gigabyte x58a-ud3r mobo
Intel i7-930 running at 2.80ghz
WD Cavier Green 500gig HDD (will have all data not system related if I can ever get that far)
OCZ Agility 3 SSD with 2.15 firmware (bootdrive and system related files such as Norton)
OCZ gold triple channel RAM 6 gig @1333mhz
ATI Radeon 5770 GPU