yeah i've had a few people look at it... no dice


it's gotta be a faulty component like you said, hopefully sony will be able to fix it for less than 500

I'm going to say its a harddrive thats dying or ready to die... I've had this problem twice, the second time I knew I needed to buy a new HD as soon as it started happenning. If your mobo has SMART enabled(it might be disabled or you can't see it during startup) it would probably complain about the HD being ready to die. I don't know what kind of lag it is but if its hardware related and it seems to happen when retrieving data from the HD then that could be a good bet. Definitely back up all your data. Try another HD in there if possible(borrow a friends or take it out of an old comp), if it fixes the problem then you know that the HD is it, then buy a new HD. Just make sure you're %100 sure it's the HD, however, because I don't know what the problem is thats described so I don't know if it's what I'm thinking of.

Heh, something similar happened to my old comp, it was a piece of shit, so i didnt really care.

Anyways, it turned out that after the numerous punts it took from me, that the ram stick got dislodged and the comp was running with only a 16 MB ram stick (the other one was dislodged)....it took about 20 minutes to load up and then when i was typing, it was so laggy i wanted to cry

I figured out what was wrong, but since I have a new comp and i only use the old one for, well, a paperwieght, I just snatched the ram out of that one and put it into my new one.

/end pointless rant

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