Laptop's performance reduced

[cj666m]

My ACER Aspire 3 A315-41-R287 (AMD Ryzen 3 2200u, Radeon Vega 3 Mobile Gfx, 4GB DDR4 RAM, 1TB HDD) Laptop performance has been reduced drastically. My laptop even can’t run smoothly a 720p on VLC.

So here is a story before all of this,
I decided to update my Graphics Card Driver while watching 1080p movie. I didn’t even thought about it as a bad idea, so stupid of me. While the graphics card driver was installing, the screen went black. I figured it is just the driver installing. After 30 mins, nothing happened so I forced shut down by holding the shutdown button then turned on the laptop again. The startup bios was running smoothly but after that it just turns black screen. I had no option but to reformat my laptop so I made a bootable windows 10 USB. The problem with that is I don’t know if I chose the right partition or file system. I reformated my laptop with that bootable usb. The performance drastically was reduced. I reformated the laptop again but this time I made sure that the bootable USB has a right set of partition. After the reformat, the laptop’s performance is still reduced. I can’t run a 720p video smoothly. Note that my storage is 868GB free of 930GB. Before all of this happened, I can run 1080p and even 4k videos smoothly on this laptop. I even optimized my windows 10 on max performance but still.

Any advice, guides or answers to my problem?
Gladly appreciated.

[veeg]

Hello

Hopefully some of our members will chime in soon..

@phillpower2

[phillpower2]

Can you upload an expanded screenshot of Disk Manager for us.

Access Disk Management via Run.

Press the Windows+R keys to open Run, type diskmgmt.msc in the empty box then press OK.

To capture and post a screenshot;

Click on the ALT key + PRT SCR key..its on the top row..right hand side..now click on start…all programs…accessories…paint…left click in the white area …press CTRL + V…click on file…click on save…save it to your desktop…name it something related to the screen your capturing… BE SURE TO SAVE IT AS A .JPG …otherwise it may be to big to upload… after typing in any response you have… click on Upload a File to add the screenshot.

Screenshot instructions are provided to assist those that may read this topic but are not yet aware of the “how to”.

[cj666m]

Can you upload an expanded screenshot of Disk Manager for us.

Access Disk Management via Run.

Press the Windows+R keys to open Run, type diskmgmt.msc in the empty box then press OK.

To capture and post a screenshot;

Click on the ALT key + PRT SCR key..its on the top row..right hand side..now click on start…all programs…accessories…paint…left click in the white area …press CTRL + V…click on file…click on save…save it to your desktop…name it something related to the screen your capturing… BE SURE TO SAVE IT AS A .JPG …otherwise it may be to big to upload… after typing in any response you have… click on Upload a File to add the screenshot.

Screenshot instructions are provided to assist those that may read this topic but are not yet aware of the “how to”.

I also did some troubleshooting and stuff. I downloaded a 1080p video from youtube and it runs smoothly however the 720p movie I downloaded from torrent is laggy. It looks like all the movies I download from torrent is a bit laggy and this doesn’t happen on my other PC though. On the left side of the codec information that I printscreened, I optimized the VLC to run the movie on a lower resolution thinking that it will run faster but it still lags a bit. I’m so confused LOL

[phillpower2]

While we are troubleshooting here can you hold off with doing anything that you see elsewhere else we will unable to help, the same with anything related to torrents which we are also unable to discuss.

The partitions on the HDD don`t look right to me so that is where we should look first.

Have you tried the recovery partition, if not;

Press the “ALT” and “F10” keys simultaneously once the Acer boot screen flashes on the screen. Type “000000,” then press “Enter” to access the recovery partition.

Post back and let us know any outcome.

[COLOR=rgb(44, 130, 201)]Can I ask that you do not quote every reply as I have to read the full post to make sure nothing gets missed, thanks.[/COLOR]

[cj666m]

Oops sorry, wasnt really tweaking things. I was just viewing things.

So whenever I press alt + f10 the recovery screen shows up with a problem statement under the title. What option should I choose next or is this another problem?
Thank you so much.

[phillpower2]

The option to choose should be F1 but as previously mentioned the partitions on the HDD look off and looking at certain information in your OP you may have overwritten or formatted part of the factory recovery partition meaning that the F1 option may not work, only way to find out is by trying it.

[phillpower2]

Any update for us?

[phillpower2]

Thread closed due to lack of feedback from the OP.