Hi all,
I seem to have a really annoying issue and I just can't seem to get it tracked down.
I've done about 5-6 clean reinstalls none if which have sorted the issue.
Laptop is a Sony vaio pro 13 and is on W8.1 Pro.
Not much installed, office 2013, vmware 10, Chrome and Avast Premium.
So, it is currently fine. But for no reason and out of the blue, it will get very slow. Now the strange thing is it won't be a lock up so the cursor will move fine. You can sometimes even right click and the menu will pop up. But to open an app or even clicking on start...nothing happens.
Sometimes it all then just comes back about 10 minutes...other times you have to restart.
Now when you restart, logging on via the pin number just hangs. You can shutdown/restart but same thing happens if you use pin number. If you then change the sign in options to use the full password, it gets you in but this time, unlike the last successful boot, it takes 10 minutes or so to get to a usable state. Until then, nothing much can be done.
Reboot again, and it will be fine.
In all of these scenarios, cpu/memory/disk load is almost at it's lowest so it's not like the system is being thrashed.
Checked temp of cpu etc, all ok.
Can't find anything in the logs apart from maybe one or two entries randomly of the following (in the event viewer)
The speed of processor 2 in group 0 is being limited by system firmware. The processor has been in this reduced performance state for 71 seconds since the last report.
Unsure whether it is related though.
Any idea?
In terms of drivers...Sony are not providing a full stack for W8.1 so I've used a mis-mash of W8, W8 updates and W8.1 drivers (those few that they have posted)
These are : Sony : SVP1321C5E updates | Download updates for SVP1321C5E
As mentioned, I've done fresh clean installs...not an upgrade from 8 but fresh installs. Bios etc are fully up-to-date. Graphics and Wifi drivers are from Intel.
Appreciate any help on this
I seem to have a really annoying issue and I just can't seem to get it tracked down.
I've done about 5-6 clean reinstalls none if which have sorted the issue.
Laptop is a Sony vaio pro 13 and is on W8.1 Pro.
Not much installed, office 2013, vmware 10, Chrome and Avast Premium.
So, it is currently fine. But for no reason and out of the blue, it will get very slow. Now the strange thing is it won't be a lock up so the cursor will move fine. You can sometimes even right click and the menu will pop up. But to open an app or even clicking on start...nothing happens.
Sometimes it all then just comes back about 10 minutes...other times you have to restart.
Now when you restart, logging on via the pin number just hangs. You can shutdown/restart but same thing happens if you use pin number. If you then change the sign in options to use the full password, it gets you in but this time, unlike the last successful boot, it takes 10 minutes or so to get to a usable state. Until then, nothing much can be done.
Reboot again, and it will be fine.
In all of these scenarios, cpu/memory/disk load is almost at it's lowest so it's not like the system is being thrashed.
Checked temp of cpu etc, all ok.
Can't find anything in the logs apart from maybe one or two entries randomly of the following (in the event viewer)
The speed of processor 2 in group 0 is being limited by system firmware. The processor has been in this reduced performance state for 71 seconds since the last report.
Unsure whether it is related though.
Any idea?
In terms of drivers...Sony are not providing a full stack for W8.1 so I've used a mis-mash of W8, W8 updates and W8.1 drivers (those few that they have posted)
These are : Sony : SVP1321C5E updates | Download updates for SVP1321C5E
As mentioned, I've done fresh clean installs...not an upgrade from 8 but fresh installs. Bios etc are fully up-to-date. Graphics and Wifi drivers are from Intel.
Appreciate any help on this
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8.1 Pro 64-Bit
- Computer type
- Laptop
- System Manufacturer/Model
- Dell Precision M3800
- CPU
- i7-4702HQ @ 2.20GHz
- Memory
- 16GB
- Graphics Card(s)
- Intel 4600/Intel Quadro K1100M
- Screen Resolution
- 32200x1800
- Hard Drives
- Crucial CT480M500SSD3
Liteon LCS-512M6S 2.5 7mm 512GB
- Browser
- Firefox
- Antivirus
- Avast Premier!