Lola's Computer is SLOW
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- Lola's Computer is SLOW
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Today I am fixing Lola's (my mother-in-law's) family computer, which is reported to be slow and also doesn't turn on sometimes. I might yet again end up mostly rebuilding it, but that's what you would do too if you had a garage full of PC hardware right?
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Thanks for watching the video everyone! Lola's computer was returned today and is already being put to good use 😄 Personally I am still very limited on time to produce content but just for another couple of weeks. I will still be aiming to get one video made per week and Kyle and I will still be doing the live show. Thanks for your patience! 🙏❤️
All the ❤, please take the time you need. Thanks for teaching Hanna how to help troubleshoot. You're a great parent teaching important life skills.
I saved 200 all year I'm disabled and I really want to get into PC gaming for black Friday what is the best gpu to buy around that price. Or can I buy a used one from you so I don't get scammed with a used miner card on eBay.
No problem :-) Make sure you get some you time too :-)
be waiting paul
Sounds like Lola just wanted a new computer :P
Lola....a normal mother in law by day, mad overclocker/gamer my night lol.
I find it funny that you call your Filipina Mother in Law “Lola”.
There’s no escape from the culture now Paul :D
hahaha. He should call her "Mama".
He'd call her tita if he wanted to butter her up
Shouldn't it be "Tita", "Nay" or better yet "Tsang"
WJR Lola does meangrandmother, but she may indeed be a lola with grandkids and it is not uncommon to refer to a mother as grandma. I do so myself with my Ma.
lola in pinoy actually means grandmother
Start of video
"I'm going to fix lola's pc"
End of video
Only part unchanged is the psu
That's because the PSU was already changed lol
I'm a Filipino, and I just love when you said "Lola PC was slow, Lola's PC is now fast".
What mother in law said: it doesn't turn on 😭 please fix it
What mother in law was really thinking: make me a new PC 😋
He did exactly that. Nothing is stock and it's now on Windows 10 versus Windows 7. Big part that was left out was "Make it free"
Lol
Thats cool of him
@@AgentLokVokun It's family and he used old parts. So why not?
@@alexanderjohansson2671 It sets a bad precedent for people who want to start doing this.
If you download more Thermal Paste, it usually fixes the problem. I recommend at least 22 GB of thermal paste overclocked to 100 horsepower.
@ just like stefan should've been
@@WayStedYou I think he was, from what others have told me. I don't particularly care though, he took the wrap for a presentation that a dozen people had a hand in. They should have written a better script and corrected him. Maybe the others decided to let him fail?
Thats family talk for "Your techie and i want a new free PC build me one"
been caught out by that myself once or twice.
Yeah screw that. Then *ANYTHING* that goes wrong you're at fault for because "I didn't want to use Windows 10 -- I want my Windows 7!"
And a free computer? I'd rather dig my eyes out with an olive fork or take a bath with a 10 pack of Amazon Basics toasters.
Well that's his mother in law. If they live near each other and she's not crazy, she's probably going to be pulling substantial babysitter duty in the future. Always beneficial to keep your in-laws happy in such a scenario, free PC be damned
@@exod4 100% fair point. Thank you for the insight. Also need to consider everyone isn't as privileged as Paul.
Yup, definitely sounds like they wanted a nice upgrade for free. Granted, an upgrade to an SSD would have sufficed for most people.
It might be free service for them but think of the R.O.I. that Paul is gonna get by making this video. lmao
A 'core system upgrade'? It's a brand new PC build...
I guess saving only the case counts as an upgrade now lol
DJ Coma changed the case tho haha
Angel Benitez ya I saw that after I posted 🤦🏻♂️
"*waiting*
*waiting*
*waiting*
*bleep*"
That got me. xD
The finger-pointing back and forth followed by *bleep* was great; solid snap-transitions, lol. Keeping it simple and quick, I like it!
I love how almost every one of these repair jobs end up turning into rebuild.
Only started watching a week ago, and am really finding your content and presentation to be first class and very enjoyable. Thanks .
Basic tech support at its finest. Relaxed and easy to watch. Have a thumbs up
Upgraded my parents computer this summer.
They had a very old and slow Celeron 847 so I bought a Lenovo Thinkcentre M93P Tiny with an i5-4570T, 8GB RAM and 500GB HDD for $100 and swapped in an 240GB SSD I had laying around.
Such a huge difference in usability for them.
Always backup appdata. That's my main one. It's where most save games are. C:\users\\appdata If system folders are hidden, you might not notice the folder while backing up the user folder.
I did a very similar build for my mother in law but scored a crazy good deal last Black Friday on several 2200G units, used one of those. They’re very impressed! They upgraded from a Q6600 system
Not really troubleshooting... but big kudos for mentioning adblocker software. I also include it on all pc's I reinstall for friends and family. It really is the most impact full piece of software to keep a pc secured from viruses.
Getting PCs that still have only USB 2.0 ports is exactly why I always keep a USB 3.0 card handy.
Ive encountered that too many times with people bringing me their old desktops from Pre-Facebook days, asking me to backup old photos.
You could use a backup software like Acronis, I use it when doing reformats as it reads the disk directly and doesn't have to deal with the filesystem/seeking being super slow. Using the bootable USB version, create a backup image, store it, and then you can recover whatever files you want at the speed of the new drive instead of going through each file separately.
When it comes to family computers I usually make sure to save the website bookmarks, saved passwords in the browser, and if outlook is installed I would save the auto complete files because some people don't save their friends email addresses to an address book.
Hi Paul.
My PC is old, and slow. and sometimes doesn't start.
When should I drop it off?
Hi Paul, I’m using a 3000g on a b550 board in my work pc right now with a 1070ti while I’m waiting for the new Ryzen CPUs to be released, coming from an e5-2650v2 I am very impressed with how fast the majority of software runs, including photoshop and Lightroom which I use for work every day. Still let’s me play destiny 2 at 4K too! Around 50-70 FPS
My #1 tip for PC repair, ESPECIALLY if a virus is a possible issue, is to boot to a portable linux distro running on a disposable USB stick or a DVD. I've only recently been getting back into repair side-jobs, but when I was last heavily into it I always had puppy on a DVD and a CD in addition to USB just because back then (in the ancient, dark ages known as ~2014) not every BIOS I had to deal with liked to boot to USB. It lets you quickly verify that all of the hardware works and that you're not dealing with weird driver gremlins. Then you can go ahead and back up files to another external drive and scan for malware while safely sitting in linux and not trying to deal with the issues that come along with trying to plug up holes in the boat your floating in.
Paul: First of " I got a laptop"
Verge: "Naw, first of, table"
This reminds me of every PC repair/upgrade/build I do for my family and friends....
"Can't turn on sometimes"
She just wanted a new free pc lmao.
Then again, you're gonna need her to babysit in the near future so..
I build PC's too. My family and friends come to me when they have PC problems.
Congratulation and condolences hehe.
Do your friends and family expect you to give them free computer parts too? Do they get pissed when you tell them Windows 7 is no longer supported and now require a modern OS?
Same here
@RookiesStudio I want to jump into a pool with a 10 pack of Amazon Basics toaster reading that. How has it not been hacked yet?
Nice video Paul just a little tip I normally just copy the user files from the c drive to a back up drive when doing a reset or update and then you don’t see any of the customers files
Hahahahaha !!! Joe's insert of himself was awesome.
San Paulo doing good works!
intern field tech here: love the troubleshooting videos! It's good learning stuff from people that I know that they know about.
My in-law brought me an old i3 win7 pc with the same issue so all I did was uninstall and clean all the crap, do a media/doc backup, clone the hhd to an ssd, do a free upgrade to win10 (yes, u can still do that), add 4GB of mem, a better cpu cooler and a better psu, reformat and move backup to old hdd and DONE!. Paul's approach, like many other top pc utubers, was more of a "rebuild/replace all/new pc" than a simple upgrade which is ok when u have lots of unused hardware laying around.
The pain in your face when talking about USB 1.0 was priceless.
Looks like Momma's getting an upgrade!
Lola as in Filipina mother-in-law. Cool. You must be having fun with all the Filipino cuisines. Lumpia, Pancit and Adobo specials.
I see Hana skipped the Tier 1 Tech Support position and got promoted strait to Tier 3. Skillz!!
My God, Man.... You MUST get her videos back!!!!!! I would set up that hard drive to download the large files with any computer laying around that's not doing anything. Let it take as long as it wants. Also, put in at least a 1 Tb drive. She could probably make good use of 128 Gb memory for browsing spybook.
I'm sure he did do this but hope he went into both windows storage settings as well as the user profile quick launch folders and changed the locations to that WD Black. Got to make storage and where auto tries to save to summy-proof for most old non-techy folks. Seen tech setups new pc's for customers and not do this on laptops that have a small SSD and a large 1TB mechanical and data gets saved EVERYWHERE and not organized properly when the SDD runs out of space.
In my experience most older family members have no understanding of multiple drives inside a tower and managing data. Always easier to use a larger SSD and any mechanical hard drives should be external. Mane times I've had to do upgrades for people who have 2nd hard drive sitting empty.
9:10 wait a minute.. seagate made an ssd? It's so cute, looks like a smaller version of barracuda lol
Good luck with the new PC Lola!
My daughter’s name is Lola! She’s 5 so she’s not initiated in to the PC Master Race quite yet, but I foresee myself saying the exact same thing (in the title) in the future.
Instead of stealing your normal coffee filters, you should pick up a pack of coffee filters for the Aeropress. They're already the right size for cleaning off the thermal compound from CPUs.
"Hey look at this old computer. Let's speed it up a bit."
*Builds entirely new computer.....
2 questions:
1) What about all of the files and shortcuts she had on the desktop? Did you backup browser bookmarks?
2) What about the VGA/DSUB video output? You seemed to abandon it and use hdmi instead, and didn't go back to gettting the vga output working :)
I guess that was actually 3 questions :)
Browser bookmarks, as long as you use google, will be synced and shortcuts on thr desktop are extremely easy to get back
Your video activates my Google Assistant at 13:41. 🤣
never forget its always handy to have your salt and pepper to hand lol
Your such a good son in law Paul plus your little daughter is a cutie pie 💕
Never heard of that power supply brand before, is it really all that good?
When backing up a system, I always prefer a WIM image using DISM. The resulting image can be opened with something like 7-zip and it captures the ENTIRE logical drive.
Love your channel hope all is well
Paul, try out systemrescuecd. Cloning, recovering almost everything you need.
Also most people install linux on very old systems to bring them to life. Just make sure you don't get linux with desktop environment like kde or gnome those two eat up a little more processing
Do you use any software to diagnose issues? It would be helpful if you did a video of how you decided to do one thing over another.
HwInfo, AIDA64, CPUID, GPU-z, CPU-z, DiskInfo64, CrystalDiskInfo, CrystalDiskMark. Many issues that are intermittent can be found with SMART data & an OS reinstall.
Lola PC was slow, Lola PC is now fast ❤️
I'd be interesting to see Crystal Disk Info ran on the old drive to see the health status. Great video!
Once a mother-in-law realizes you have far superior hardware parts just gathering dust in your "junk" drawer...
@Paul's Hardware - why don't you , instead of using usb adapter, plug that ssd onto the motherboard with sata cable as an additional drive and get higher transfer speed?
I Literally just went through with that motherboard last week, firmware 2.30, had to get a Ryzen 1200 to do upgrades as it wouldnt take anything other then 1st gen 1000 CPU's... Now on 2200G with firmware 6.60
I have almost all my family come to me, i've had family members come and give me their computer to fix, in one case the hard drive failed, and this family member got upset with me, for not replacing the drive for free. (I mean the physical drive, not the labor) and I told her, hey i'll fix it, reinstall windows and try to recover data off the bad drive, but since I don't have any spare hard drives laying around you need to buy materials.
They got upset over it, and told me not to worry about it they'd take it to a shop.
They quoted her something outrageous like 375 dollars to replace a 1tb hdd, so a week later she brings it back, asks me to fix it for her; I tell her the price of the drive, and then I asked for 50 in labor. So it came out to like 100 bucks all together (rounding a little). I would have done it for free, but being rude to me or entitled loses that :"Family discount" pretty fucking fast.
OK Paul, was it mainly her computer was slow or the Browser? Your MnL might not be savvy enough to be clear on what exactly was slow.
Come one dude, you gotta give your lola-in-law that 2080 Ti you know you're gonna replace with the 3090. She needs that power!!! 😋
I have that Motherboard paired with a 7-1700 65 watt, 1070 vid, m2 and 32 gig ram, works great
Granny be rocking the new Ryzen 4th gen and 3090 ti .
Windows 7?! Won’t have had a security update for ~7 months?! Impressive family members not clicking on crap! 😱
Really enjoyed this video!!!
I can relate to this. I am also the "Tech support" of the family lol
I want to see Lola receive the computer.
Its a really good idea to keep the MiL happy.
I can just imagine Lola overclocking Classic Solitare in her element.
Siempre es una gran experencia ver tus videos amigo
If I got my in-laws a 2 core CPU in 2020 my wife would cut me off. I own a data center and I would have to loathe my in-laws. But to each their own.
Why don't you use the Windows Easy Transfer tool? It works in Windows 10 just as well as it does in lower versions. And it will allow you to capture the user state along with their files. And you can easily extract it from any Win7 machine as it doesn't require being installed to operate.
14:20 hahaha. Me with any project I do.
Paul updates Lola's power supply with new computer.
I hope you checked root. People always, always save stuff on root folder, I'm semi-retired buy always do some work for friends or family and always use WinDirStat to check where the big stuff may be. Also, hope her monitor has other input than VGA, so you don't have to give her a new monitor too
2 backups on 2 different storage mediums (preferably different mfg/batches) at a bare minimum. When somebody gives you their broken computer and you lose all their files (that they never backed up) they get pissy.
Can we talk about how he never talked about the upgrade From Windows 7 to Windows 10.
@@AgentLokVokun First Rule about upgrade from W7 to W10, is "don't talk about free upgrade from W7 to W10 that still works"
@@G0nZ4Low yes it would be a shame if ANYBODY searched for
"HWIDGEN_KMS38_key" and accidentally used the password of "s1ave77.hwid.gui" on the .7z that *NOBODY* should EVER run.
This information *can not* ever, and I mean ever, be found on github with direct DL links.
I just switched over to teh ASRock AB350 board so I can add a capture card as my old board only had one pcie x16 which is taken by the gpu. Did not realize until I added the card that the card won't work if I also have an nvme drive plugged in since they share space (mobo disables 2nd pcie x16 slot if nvme is populated).
I had a similar issue with that same Hitachi drive with my uncles external HDD storage thingy.
Mother in law overclocking? LMFAO
Given you identified a drive issue I'm surprised you didn't run smartctl to pull the drive's prefail statistics to verify how many failed sectors have been swapped out. Its available on the system rescuecd or from smartmontools.org. Your average Joe isn't going to have a garage full of spare parts to swap or full system replace with and would like tips on identifying/replacing the most likely core issue. Also, clonezilla running in rescue mode to a new SSD might have been informative.
Actually Paul, Microsoft thinks if your seeking out updates your willing to take beta updates only take updates it prompts you about to be sure your getting an actually tested release
This is just a suggestion. I was thinking of pimp my ride that was on MTV. Why not show the reactions of Lola as she sees her revamped computer? :)
Hopefully she doesn't use an optical drive. Although it doesn't seem like it with current tech, a lot of people do still use optical media.
i spotted that as well. i hardly ever use my optical drives but I keep them for ripping DVDs.
20sec boot is slow for an ssd. Is there no fast post/boot option on that MB? My old system from 2015 boots in about 5sec
How did you transfer the Windows 10 license to the new motherboard? Did Lola have other software like Microsoft Office that needed license transfer?
Great video, she will be a happy Lola
Curious why then build a new pc, when the lola's system working just swap the hdd for the ssd, or you just do it because is old system and also is your mother in law?
It had Windows 7 on it at a bare minimum (EoL OS). It was also probably for a video & most likely didn't charge them which is unrealistic as hell.
@@AgentLokVokun thats the point what i meant because i fix computer and i cant swap a old pc for a new one because the costumer dont have the money for a new one
@@iCeMaNtHeBeSt 100% agree. That's why this was a very bad video. He literally replaced the entire computer AND OS. Nothing besides the files are stock.
@@AgentLokVokun He did keep the power supply
@@sadams12345678 The power supply was upgraded by Paul in a previous video and it's not stock.
Question, Tho you had to use the HDMI, Is there not an option in the bios to select the Analog VGA for use when using the integrated CPU/GPU?
My Lola doesn’t even know how to use a computer.
I've got the same AB350 Pro4 mobo (going to be used for a new system for my parents) and I've got my system with an ASRock X470 and I don't like how ASRock does, on both of them, BIOS up to a certain point will support Zen and Zen+ but after a certain point it will add support for Zen 2 but it states "not recommended" for Zen and Zen+ anymore.
Hey Paul, what did you use for back-up, or how did you backup the drive. Just copy folders manually to your ssd?
I wish you made a sleeper pc on that case for Lola 😄😄😄
How did you know that there was a problem with the VGA cable ?
would a nvme qlc drive with dram be worse than a nvme tlc drive without dram?
They would be similar. Both would work very well with smaller files but performance goes to shit if they're overloaded with too many simultaneous things or huge files.
Wow AZZA... I remember back with my Pentium 3 800 mhz, GeForce 200 MX used an AZZA motherboard... haven't seen that name for a long, long time.
Whats the case you’ve used?
Lola Techy in the House!! :)
"hey Paul, fix my computer" "i will better build a new one"
So what you are saying is that Hanna's grandmother doesn't deserve an RTX 3090? Or was it just too long for her to wait to get her PC back?
That Ultra M.2 is looking so lonely in the closeup.