Laptop Becoming Unresponsive After Start Up (lenovo Ideapad S510p)

I've got a laptop with windows 7 on it. I hadn't used it that much but lately I have.

Everything worked fine until a couple days ago. When I started up the laptop, it loads up fine, starts windows 7 and the desktop appears but

I noticed after about 10 seconds it would then become unresponsive. The mouse can still move around and click on stuff but whatever I click

on it won't respond (it won't open or it would takes 10 minutes to open). Same with hitting windows key, it won't open or it could takes a very long time to open if I waited long enough.



I also noticed some of the desktop icons would not load so it would remain a white paper or it would take a very long time for the icon to appear not as a white paper anymore.



There is also no way of shutting down except by doing a hard shut down (holding the power button down). I've tried loading it up in safe mode and it runs perfectly in safe mode. I was able to do things like run chkdsk and /f /r and still same problem after that. I was also able to run some scans on malware/virus and didn't find anything.



Smart check said the hard drive was fine (from Speccy) but I ran another one from CrystalDisk and it said "caution" hard drive smart current pending sector count was yellow and I looked at the raw values and changed it to 10 DEC and it shows 60. It hasn't gone up or down after rebooting a few times.



I'm not sure if that is what would be causing my laptop to become unresponsive after 10 seconds of loading windows 7 and getting to my desktop.



Any other ideas?

 

If it was not used for some time, it may be way behind in updates. You might try starting it up, running Windows Update and walking away - perhaps overnight.

But before that, I would also try to run Disk Cleanup or CCleaner to clear out the clutter.

Hmmm, could have sworn we discussed this before. Perhaps it was someone else. Anyway, when you run chkdsk with the /r switch, there is no need to include the /f switch. /r does those functions too.

If you run chkdsk /?, the /? lists all the available options/switches and displays the syntax on how to use them. In that list, you will see /r implies /f. Therefore, you don’t need /r and /f, only /r.

 

thank you. I tried a lot of different scans, commands, and cleaning software, virus/malware etc., but same problem exists. I have decided to just take out the hdd and put in a ssd but i'm still making the windows usb installation with rufus but taking over 3 hours to make the usb.

 

Keep us posted.

 

Thanks. I just used a different software called windows 7 usb dvd download tool (found it from a youtube tutorial) and it only took about 5 minutes to write the ISO to USB and worked perfect. Reinstalled OS and laptop works fine now (I swapped out the hdd and put in a ssd too, and will keep the hdd as an external storage for things not valuable to me).

 

Thanks for the update.