Hey,
I have a kind of odd problem. I have a Samsung RF711 with a Samsung EVO SDD. It worked fine in till about a week ago.
First chrome kept 'not responding' randomly. My file explorer kept 'not responding' when selecting random files (mostly in my dropbox folder). It either worked eventually or I restarted.
I had some rare graphical glitches where I opened chrome or VS2013
- black boxes where appearing - but minimising and maximising the window fixed this.
Memtest was fine, Samsung magician said my HDD was fine. So I reinstalled my OS.
It was still being randomly slow, I had one black box, and my vpn client kept making the laptop lock up completely (so I had to force reboot by holding the power down) so I uninstalled Kaspersky and Onenote which seem to help (not sure which one). I think windows update may have fixed the vpn thing. All of yesterday it worked fine.
As I had not tried a game yet, I decided to test the graphics card this morning so I used haven benchmark. As usual when benchmarked my 540M reached the stupid temp of 95 degrees c (although it ran the test fine) but when I tried to install coretemp half my system froze again :/. I could select google chrome, but not open the system tray and when it got stuck on the start screen I had to force reboot again. (my idle core temp is 60 - it has had new thermal paste and is sat on a cooling mat etc, but it is a terrible design - yes the paste is applied properly).
The problem is so very intermittent I dont know where to start diagnosing it.... It does not seem to be SSD or RAM. My laptop is usually pretty responsive.
I have a kind of odd problem. I have a Samsung RF711 with a Samsung EVO SDD. It worked fine in till about a week ago.
First chrome kept 'not responding' randomly. My file explorer kept 'not responding' when selecting random files (mostly in my dropbox folder). It either worked eventually or I restarted.
I had some rare graphical glitches where I opened chrome or VS2013
- black boxes where appearing - but minimising and maximising the window fixed this.
Memtest was fine, Samsung magician said my HDD was fine. So I reinstalled my OS.
It was still being randomly slow, I had one black box, and my vpn client kept making the laptop lock up completely (so I had to force reboot by holding the power down) so I uninstalled Kaspersky and Onenote which seem to help (not sure which one). I think windows update may have fixed the vpn thing. All of yesterday it worked fine.
As I had not tried a game yet, I decided to test the graphics card this morning so I used haven benchmark. As usual when benchmarked my 540M reached the stupid temp of 95 degrees c (although it ran the test fine) but when I tried to install coretemp half my system froze again :/. I could select google chrome, but not open the system tray and when it got stuck on the start screen I had to force reboot again. (my idle core temp is 60 - it has had new thermal paste and is sat on a cooling mat etc, but it is a terrible design - yes the paste is applied properly).
The problem is so very intermittent I dont know where to start diagnosing it.... It does not seem to be SSD or RAM. My laptop is usually pretty responsive.
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