Arch Linux

Garmik

Member

Registered: 2013-05-14

Posts: 2

Extremely slow laptop.

So, I haven't used my laptop for a while, been using my desktop. But I turned it on the other day and it was super slow.
Grub takes like 30 seconds to load.
Then simple commands like "ls" take 15 seconds, opening anything and everything, extremely slow, while writing in VIM it gets stuck often, etc.

My windows installation didn't even boot, I reformatted and just installed Arch, but everything was still extremely slow.

• I did a memtest and got no errors ( I can run something like PuppyLinux just fine also -- which runs from RAM -- and anything on Live CD without issues really ), I also did tests with S.M.A.R.T and badblocks, no errors.

I'm not hardware knowledgeable at all, so: What else could be causing this? What else can I test?

Thank you.

Last edited by Garmik (2013-05-23 13:15:40)

bjornoslav

Member

Registered: 2011-11-01

Posts: 137

Re: Extremely slow laptop.

Bad RAM, bad hard drive, overheating CPU or GPU, bad motherboard, fragmented file system...

---

asus ux303la, core i5@1.6ghz, 8 gb ram, 500gb hdd, hd4400 gpu, crux x64 with openbox