Running slow even after formatting the SSD drive & reinstalling Windows 7.

[Draider46]

Running slow even after formatting the SSD drive & reinstalling Windows 7. All the parts to my computer I have bought in the last year except the case & power supply. After I bought the video card they had just put out the free update for windows 10. So I installed it & it ran good for a couple months. Then it starting slowing down & had a few other issues. That I couldn’t figure out. So I formatted the SSD & just installed windows 7. It has ran great for about 6 – 7 months then all of a sudden, it first seemed like I was having internet issues, Then when I would click on apps like computer & others it always had a delay on coming up. I ran a virus scan & memory scan and neither would ever finish, they would just hang there. This also happened on a few other tests I tried to run. So after about a week of trying to figure it out, I just formatted the SSD drive & just reinstalled just windows 7. But it still doing the same thing. I’m taking it that it must be a hardware issue? But I don’t know where to start since I have tried to run the memory test & it stalls. Any help on this would much appreciated.


Board: MSI 970 Gaming AM3+
BIOS:
VGA: EVGA GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2GB 128-Bit GDDR5
PSU: CORSAIR TX Series CMPSU-750TX 750W ATX12V v2.3
CPU: AMD FX-8350 Black Edition Vishera 8-Core 4.0 GHz (4.2 GHz Turbo) Socket AM3+ 125W
MEM: PNY Anarchy DDR3 16GB(2X8GB Modules) 1600MHz
HDD/SSD: 500GB Samsung 850Evo SSD 3D NAND FLASH
COOLER: Stock
Keyboard: Logitech G15 Gaming Keyboard USB
Mouse: RAZER Naga Hex Wired USB Gaming Mouse
OC: None
OS: Windows 7 64bit Professional

 

[SuperSoph_WD]

Welcome to the community, @Draider46!

You have done a great job with the troubleshooting so far. But in case you haven't tried this already, I'd also advise you to swap the SATA cables and the SATA ports where the SSD & HDD are connected to the motherboard. Maybe a failed connection is influencing the system's performance. I'd also advise you to check how the PC performs if you unplug the secondary data drive. To avoid any potential data loss, please make sure you also backup all your important data from both drives somewhere off-site (e.g. external HDD, cloud storage, etc.). If you have access to another PC, you could also try plugging the secondary drive there to see how it will behave. After doing a backup, it might also be a good idea to run both an SSD-specific and an HDD-specific diagnostic tool to determine the health and SMART status of both storage devices.

Hope this helps. Let me know how it goes, though.
SuperSoph_WD

 

[Draider46]

Thank you for your response. I have tried all of that & it's still not taking care of my problem. My computer is still running slow. I've even tried putting the memory in the other slots & that didn't help. I'm stumped

 

[SuperSoph_WD]

Well, this sounds pretty unfortunate, @Draider46! 🙁 How about powering down the system and reseating all the connections inside it? I'd advise you to do that in order to make sure that there are no loose or faulty cables. You mentioned that you have tried all of the above's suggestions, but what did the benchmark & diagnostic tests say about the health and SMART attributes of your SSD & HDD? It's possible that a failure in one of the drives is causing the system's slow performance. I'd advise you to try and boot the PC with just the booting drive (SSD) intact while having the secondary one disconnected. This will help us determine whether or not it's an HDD fault.

Keep me posted with the troubleshooting!
SuperSoph_WD