Laptop lags

[nation]

I have a newer laptop couple months old. bought the piece of trash from www.ibuypower.com and it fails me more and more. It randomly lags kinda like when your playing a video game except this video game is called my desktop or antrhing im doing. I dont really notice it except when im watching a movie and it lags out or listening to a song and i can hear it laggin... Does anyone know wtf im talking about and if so is there some sort of fix for it?

Specs
Vista Ultimate (No its not vista it did it for xp also)
1gb ram
Ati Radion x1600 mobel
AMD turion 64 2.20ghz

Thanks in advanced

-Nation

[acidburn]

I have a newer laptop couple months old. bought the piece of trash from www.ibuypower.com and it fails me more and more. It randomly lags kinda like when your playing a video game except this video game is called my desktop or antrhing im doing. I dont really notice it except when im watching a movie and it lags out or listening to a song and i can hear it laggin... Does anyone know wtf im talking about and if so is there some sort of fix for it?

Specs
Vista Ultimate (No its not vista it did it for xp also)
1gb ram
Ati Radion x1600 mobel
AMD turion 64 2.20ghz

Thanks in advanced

-Nation

I'd suggest looking at the Task Manager next time the system lags to see if any particular process spikes its activity at that time. Might give you some idea what is dragging down your system.

[nation]

Doesnt seem to be an issue with any sort of software. Cause ive reformated before and it the same lol

[metal4rock]

My laptop also does this, but I am curtain it is the hard drive. When ever it lags you can here the hard drive make a clicking sound. It only clicks/lags sometimes, usually after the laptop has been running awhile, and it has done it ever since I've bought it.

[nation]

Cant be the HDD for me it recently died so i replaced it and it was doing it before and after

[striker1211]

Does the laptop use Centrino technology? If so it could be a malfunction in the SpeedStep part of XP. Do you use the manufacturers power management utility? Uninstall it and set the power config to Always On. This will disable speedstep when plugged in and only use it when on battery power.

[theremover]

You could also take a look at the power settings. Make sure the harddrive isn't going to sleep. The game could be lagging while the disk spins back up.

That, and I'd try an alternate driver. Omega drivers come to mind.

[darkknight512]

Try defragging, cleaning the registry, scanning for adware, spyware, viruses etc., try disabling the vista eye candy, try getting some Vista optimizers.

[darknessgp]

Try defragging, cleaning the registry, scanning for adware, spyware, viruses etc., try disabling the vista eye candy, try getting some Vista optimizers.

1) He already said it was slow like this on XP.

2) He's said that he's done a complete reformat.


Honestly, I'm not sure why it is so slow, unless the components are just slow in which case there is little to no "fix"

[tokenuser]

HE NEEDS MORE RAM.

1Gb just aint going to cut it - especially if you are watching video. Vista will not help this any.

HE NEEDS A FASTER HDD.

This can be a bottleneck on a laptop, especially if you are watching video files off the HDD.

HE NEEDS UPDATED VIDEO DRIVERS.

... but this was posted some time back. Any chance for an update on the status of the laptop?

LET THE PC MANAGE THE SWAP FILE.

Don't be a smartarse and "tune" it yourself. Let Windows manage it for you. This implies that there is enough room for a swap file on the primary partition.