Hi there! First time on this community, but I've exhausted a lot of options myself and I really just want to open up my issues to a well-educated audience.
I have an Asus Touchscreen Laptop (Model: s300C)
Traditionally, the audio would suffer drop-outs and crackles, which I could not tolerate at all, so I ended up doing whatever I could do to get rid of the audio problems. These solutions include, but are not limited to; Updating the BIOS, Updating all drivers, disabling unused components (Including Ethernet, Bluetooth, and unused HDMI port), keeping windows updated to current version, and checking throughout this process with LatencyMon.
LatencyMon Screenshot
It used to be a lot worse. But the audio crackling is gone, which is good for now (this is what I said to myself back then.)
I've begun to use this laptop for much more than surfing the web and music, examples include gaming, programming, watching videos, and hopefully in the future, "Drawing" (I'm not so good at it though.)
Now that you know the background, here's where the real problem begins.
I've always had issues with the laptop being slow, that's fine. But now with increased use, the sluggish performance gets in the way and is a great hindrance.
Whenever I start a program, or have a program running, great or small, the disk always shoots up to 99% without fail.
Screenshot of Disk
I've spent countless hours looking for solutions, fixes, workarounds to try and fix this. I've "Fixed" windows 8 using the repair function, completely reinstalled windows 8 (Wiped the drives and started over), applied fixes that had to do with pagefiles, turned indexing off, and other things, which I can't remember. Asus has a 2 year warranty on this laptop, and a 1 year accidental, so if all else fails I can get a brand new laptop no questions asked, but the problem is I have to pay for shipping there, wait the time period for them to fix it, wait for it to get shipped back, and then on top of all that, worry about the transfer process and all that.
So my question to this community is: Can you help me solve this problem? I myself am an avid PC user, and I do simple repairs for people all the time. This problem eludes me however, and I'd like to know how I can solve it.
Thank you for your help in advance, should you choose to do so.
Update: Hard Drive is Seagate STL500T012-9WS142
-Panic
I have an Asus Touchscreen Laptop (Model: s300C)
Traditionally, the audio would suffer drop-outs and crackles, which I could not tolerate at all, so I ended up doing whatever I could do to get rid of the audio problems. These solutions include, but are not limited to; Updating the BIOS, Updating all drivers, disabling unused components (Including Ethernet, Bluetooth, and unused HDMI port), keeping windows updated to current version, and checking throughout this process with LatencyMon.
LatencyMon Screenshot
It used to be a lot worse. But the audio crackling is gone, which is good for now (this is what I said to myself back then.)
I've begun to use this laptop for much more than surfing the web and music, examples include gaming, programming, watching videos, and hopefully in the future, "Drawing" (I'm not so good at it though.)
Now that you know the background, here's where the real problem begins.
I've always had issues with the laptop being slow, that's fine. But now with increased use, the sluggish performance gets in the way and is a great hindrance.
Whenever I start a program, or have a program running, great or small, the disk always shoots up to 99% without fail.
Screenshot of Disk
I've spent countless hours looking for solutions, fixes, workarounds to try and fix this. I've "Fixed" windows 8 using the repair function, completely reinstalled windows 8 (Wiped the drives and started over), applied fixes that had to do with pagefiles, turned indexing off, and other things, which I can't remember. Asus has a 2 year warranty on this laptop, and a 1 year accidental, so if all else fails I can get a brand new laptop no questions asked, but the problem is I have to pay for shipping there, wait the time period for them to fix it, wait for it to get shipped back, and then on top of all that, worry about the transfer process and all that.
So my question to this community is: Can you help me solve this problem? I myself am an avid PC user, and I do simple repairs for people all the time. This problem eludes me however, and I'd like to know how I can solve it.
Thank you for your help in advance, should you choose to do so.
Update: Hard Drive is Seagate STL500T012-9WS142
-Panic
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