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bdg49089 · 04-21-2007, 11:26 PM

Hello,
HP 5125US laptop. Was running fine for six months. No tweaks or abuse and no surfing in the wilder parts of the web. Yesterday I was on google video and the video and sound got really choppy. CPU and memory usage were normal. The mouse pointer moves in jumps around the screen. I did a reboot and it took forever to start up. Everything seems to be in slow motion. Video and audio playback are really choppy with stuttering and looping. When ever I start a program it takes a long time to load and the disk activity light is on solid the whole time. Could this simply be a hard drive problem or could I be looking at something more serious? I doubt it is os related since the machine had been up and runnig fine for hours before this started. Any advice appreciated!

04-21-2007, 11:26 PM	#1 (permalink)
bdg49089 Registered User Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 2 OS: XP	(resolved)Choppy video and sloooow startup Hello, HP 5125US laptop. Was running fine for six months. No tweaks or abuse and no surfing in the wilder parts of the web. Yesterday I was on google video and the video and sound got really choppy. CPU and memory usage were normal. The mouse pointer moves in jumps around the screen. I did a reboot and it took forever to start up. Everything seems to be in slow motion. Video and audio playback are really choppy with stuttering and looping. When ever I start a program it takes a long time to load and the disk activity light is on solid the whole time. Could this simply be a hard drive problem or could I be looking at something more serious? I doubt it is os related since the machine had been up and runnig fine for hours before this started. Any advice appreciated!