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Help needed: Laptop fell, now responding slowly on startup

  • 30-12-2009 11:15pm
    #1
    embraer170
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,451 ✭✭✭


    My 2 year old Sony Vaio had a rather violent fall to the ground while running.

    It refused to start up at first but following a few restarts and trying the hard hard drive repair tool once, it started working again.

    Only problem is that it runs very slowly on start up. Start up takes 3-4x what it used to while loading individual programmes is a little slower. But, once running, things are more or less normal.

    Any ideas what the problem might be? Hard drive? RAM? Something else?

    Thanks.


Comments

  • #2
    JDxtra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,967 ✭✭✭JDxtra


    Damaged hard drive. Backup any data you need from the drive now in case it dies.


  • #3
    Alanstrainor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,157 ✭✭✭✭Alanstrainor


    JDxtra wrote: »
    Damaged hard drive. Backup any data you need from the drive now in case it dies.

    +1, I'd do it asap.


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