Problem Toshiba M30-107, please help

astrooptics · 03-28-2008, 04:06 AM

Hello, my colleague has a Toshiba Satellite M30 laptop, 1.8GHz Centrino processor, 1Gb Ram, XP home, NVidia card.
Since a while he has been experiencing slow speed and sometimes the laptop stops responding and starts responding again after a while. He has installed google gadgets and it shows that sometimes HDD read speed becomes zero. The mouse moves but everything else just hangs. In a few seconds, everything is back to normal. We have done all, clean temp files (CCleaner), Defrag, clean registry. Checked the HDD with various utilities and all showed it to be ok. Downloaded a software called HDD Health and it showed HDD temp as 35° and health as 100%. It showed system temp as 65-70° so we disassembled the laptop to clean the dust on heatsink. There wasn't much and it did not make any difference.
Please advice what else can we do. He thinks fan speed may have become slow, can this happen?

dai · 03-28-2008, 04:12 AM

check if anything is running inthe background
i.e.
a/virus doing a virus scan
see what you get with this
HD Tach Scores
if it is a ide drive check it is still running in dma mode

astrooptics · 03-28-2008, 05:28 AM

The tests showed result as :
CPU Utilization : 68%
Random access : 28ms
Average read speed : 1.8 Mb/s

So what is the problem, CPU or HDD?

**Deleted090308** · 03-28-2008, 03:37 PM

Did you check for malware?

03-28-2008, 04:06 AM	#1 (permalink)
astrooptics Registered User Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Mumbai, India Posts: 36 OS: Win XP Home, SP3	Problem Toshiba M30-107, please help Hello, my colleague has a Toshiba Satellite M30 laptop, 1.8GHz Centrino processor, 1Gb Ram, XP home, NVidia card. Since a while he has been experiencing slow speed and sometimes the laptop stops responding and starts responding again after a while. He has installed google gadgets and it shows that sometimes HDD read speed becomes zero. The mouse moves but everything else just hangs. In a few seconds, everything is back to normal. We have done all, clean temp files (CCleaner), Defrag, clean registry. Checked the HDD with various utilities and all showed it to be ok. Downloaded a software called HDD Health and it showed HDD temp as 35° and health as 100%. It showed system temp as 65-70° so we disassembled the laptop to clean the dust on heatsink. There wasn't much and it did not make any difference. Please advice what else can we do. He thinks fan speed may have become slow, can this happen?

03-28-2008, 04:12 AM	#2 (permalink)
dai Manager, Hardware Forums Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: west australia Posts: 56,784 OS: win 7 32x 64x rtm	Re: Problem Toshiba M30-107, please help check if anything is running inthe background i.e. a/virus doing a virus scan see what you get with this HD Tach Scores if it is a ide drive check it is still running in dma mode __________________

03-28-2008, 05:28 AM	#3 (permalink)
astrooptics Registered User Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Mumbai, India Posts: 36 OS: Win XP Home, SP3	Re: Problem Toshiba M30-107, please help The tests showed result as : CPU Utilization : 68% Random access : 28ms Average read speed : 1.8 Mb/s So what is the problem, CPU or HDD?

03-28-2008, 03:37 PM	#4 (permalink)
Deleted090308 Not... Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 22,277 OS: Xp	Re: Problem Toshiba M30-107, please help Did you check for malware?