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PC suddenly got very slow overnight

Anonymous
2023-05-26T19:28:32+00:00

Basically I turned my PC on and the boot time suddenly got significantly slower. Not only that but opening programs on it takes a while too. And of course it interferes with gaming performance giving it more stutters and that is not ideal at all lol. It happened the day after I shutdown my PC using the timed shutdown command on cmd (shutdown -s -t) .

Boot times take about a minute and a half now which normally takes less than 20 secs before. Same with shutdown speed which is significantly slower as well.

Here's the list of things I've done to try to fix it:

  • System file checker (sfc /scannow) combined with dism restorehealth a bunch of times. It DID temporarily fix the problem for a while because it did find corrupted files but quickly got slow again after a few minutes.
  • Completely reset the PC (deleted all personal files and restored through cloud download). Did not seem to fix the problem. Note that I ran sfc and dism command above before and after resetting and it found corrupted files both times.
  • Opened another profile to check it it's corrupted at all.
  • Tried the SATA driver bug (as seen here https://youtu.be/e3kYlLbk20I?t=460).
  • Ran mdsched to see if RAM is the problem.
  • Did the "In place repair upgrade" (as seen here https://youtu.be/yidWdy-Xwdk?t=412).
  • Performed a clean boot of Windows.
  • Windows startup repair.
  • Did the usual things (updated the graphics driver, updated windows, malware scan.)

I pretty much open Task Manager all the time now and it constantly hit 100% disk usage everytime I startup the PC which it never did before. And the things that hit 100% disk usage everytime it slows down is consistenly the program that is opening/running and "System". Whenever I download a game through Steam or Epic the

install seems to slowdown not because of my internet slowing down but because the write speed throttles down considerably. Keep in mind I do use a SATA SSD.

I am running out of options and really have no clue what to do. Need help at least to rule out software problems in anyway before considering it be a hardware problem.

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  1. Igor Leyko 110.6K Reputation points Independent Advisor
    2023-05-30T18:31:02+00:00

    SSD is a semiconductor electronic device, so it may decrease its parameters quickly and unexpectedly unfortunately.

    Maybe it can be used as data storage, but it is not good for the system now.

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  1. Igor Leyko 110.6K Reputation points Independent Advisor
    2023-05-29T23:26:21+00:00

    Sorry for the bad news, but you have problems with your SSD. :(

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  1. Anonymous
    2023-07-10T13:08:48+00:00

    So a late update to this, I've finally got my hands on a new nvme SSD. Migrated all my files and changed the boot drive to the new nvme. It's been a couple of days but so far it looks really solid. No throttling on read speeds or write speeds, boot times and shutdown times are near instant, games are performing well. I could show you all the benchmark numbers and whatnot but I'm choosing not to do that for convenience sake. I'm just updating this so if anyone in the future is having similar problems, you could find the answer at the end of this thread. Be careful about choosing a cheap sata SSD as your boot drive.

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-06-02T11:24:42+00:00

    I don't know if you'd still reply but I almost pulled the trigger on buying an nvme ssd but I decided to test the SSD proper this time and this is what I got

    I got the proper patriot toolbox this time and it still says 98% health which baffles me when the write speed is absolutely abysmal

    I went ahead and captured the product page in the end cause im just that confused lol.

    Should I still replace the SSD? That write speed is atrocious but the read speed is as advertised I guess. Please advise and thank you.

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  3. Igor Leyko 110.6K Reputation points Independent Advisor
    2023-05-27T19:08:13+00:00

    Please run Task manager, go to Performance tab, and show a screenshots with Memory selected and with Disk C: selected when you see a slowness during operation.

    Check for the BIOS updates.

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