Hi guys,
I've a problem I need help diagnosing. Before I start describing it, here's a little background and specs.
I'm using a laptop I bought in December 2014, the Lenovo Y50-70, Win7 Ultimate x64 (pre-installed, so no CD/DVD/flash drive to reinstall from), Intel i5 4210, 2.90 GHz, 8GB RAM, 1TB HDD divided into two partitions.
My laptop had been working more or less without problems. Sure, loading times slowed down as time went on, but no serious issue with it whatsoever. After our holiday at the start of June (where we were using an open Wi-Fi network), it started acting up. As I came home and turned the laptop on, I got a BSOD a couple of minutes after typing in my windows login password. Restarted the computer, got to the windows login again and the same happened.
I booted into safe mode and wanted to do a system restore, but there was no restore point available. I wanted to create a manual restore point, but an error prevented me from doing so. After days of trying to find a solution, I finally managed to create a system restore point, but the computer has been extremely slow ever since. Not to mention programs keep on crashing on a regular basis. DxDiag crashes 2 minutes after I open it, Lenovo service bridge crashes 5 minutes after logging into Windows, and HP Assistant Support always loads even though I specifically disabled that program from starting up. Some programs don't even start, e.g. I wanted to run Sims 2, it appeared in my Task Manager as running, but the program never loaded.
Boot times are a joke. After typing in my password, I have to wait a minute and a half for the computer to get into Windows and then another 10 minutes for it to load all the essential (and only essential) software.
Can anyone please tell me or guide me through diagnostics - how can I locate the culprit or culprits causing these issues? I know I could just format the computer and be done with it, but I don't want to do that just yet.
I've a problem I need help diagnosing. Before I start describing it, here's a little background and specs.
I'm using a laptop I bought in December 2014, the Lenovo Y50-70, Win7 Ultimate x64 (pre-installed, so no CD/DVD/flash drive to reinstall from), Intel i5 4210, 2.90 GHz, 8GB RAM, 1TB HDD divided into two partitions.
My laptop had been working more or less without problems. Sure, loading times slowed down as time went on, but no serious issue with it whatsoever. After our holiday at the start of June (where we were using an open Wi-Fi network), it started acting up. As I came home and turned the laptop on, I got a BSOD a couple of minutes after typing in my windows login password. Restarted the computer, got to the windows login again and the same happened.
I booted into safe mode and wanted to do a system restore, but there was no restore point available. I wanted to create a manual restore point, but an error prevented me from doing so. After days of trying to find a solution, I finally managed to create a system restore point, but the computer has been extremely slow ever since. Not to mention programs keep on crashing on a regular basis. DxDiag crashes 2 minutes after I open it, Lenovo service bridge crashes 5 minutes after logging into Windows, and HP Assistant Support always loads even though I specifically disabled that program from starting up. Some programs don't even start, e.g. I wanted to run Sims 2, it appeared in my Task Manager as running, but the program never loaded.
Boot times are a joke. After typing in my password, I have to wait a minute and a half for the computer to get into Windows and then another 10 minutes for it to load all the essential (and only essential) software.
Can anyone please tell me or guide me through diagnostics - how can I locate the culprit or culprits causing these issues? I know I could just format the computer and be done with it, but I don't want to do that just yet.