Windows 10: Acer Aspire V5-122P - Really slow, suggestions please

Hi everyone,

I have the following laptop from many years and it was running windows 8, however it was really really slow and I have just installed windows 10 with the hope that reinstalling the windows would make it work quicker, however it is still really really slow, I would say it is not really usable as it is so laggy even moving the mouse mouse.

It looks like it is just not powerful enough? I wanted to ask which windows would u recommend me to install on it so that it will work quicker ?

I have opened the task manager from curiosity and it was showing 99% for the CPU is being used, so probably it is because the CPU is really weak.

Any suggestions?


Acer Aspire V5-122P

CPU: AMD Dual Core A4-1250 (1.0 gHz)

Ram: 4GB DDR3

HDD:500GB

Thanks in advance.

:)

 

acer Aspir V5-122p with Windows 10 Keyboad and Trackpad do not work

Hi Daveyk,

Thank you for posting in Microsoft Community. I understand your concern and I am glad to assist you.

I would suggest you to run the hardware and device troubleshooter and check.

Try these steps to run the troubleshooter:

• Type troubleshooting in the search bar.
  
• Click view all in the left panel.
• Select ‘Hardware and devices' and follow the on-screen instructions.
  

Please also update chipset drivers from the computer manufacturer's website
and check the issue.

I found a link:
http://supportsdriver.com/2015/03/acer-aspire-v5-122p-driver-download.html

Hope this post is helpful. Get back to us with the results. We are happy to help.

 

Acer Aspire V5-122P BSOD's

This may be a long shot, as it is a Microsoft forum, but here goes:

I am helping someone providing technical support for an Acer Aspire V5-122P. He purchased it at the start of 2014, it came with Windows 8, then I updated it to 8.1. At the end of last year, I upgraded it to Windows 10 (even though the official support
page for that model did not list any drivers for Windows 10). The problems began in February, randomly, the laptop would freeze now and again, mostly while browsing with Firefox and watching videos.

I did a Refresh in March, and after tried to update the drivers with Driver Booster (as there were no drivers listed for W10.) The computer wouldn't boot into Windows afterwards, so I did a System Restore in Safe Mode, which restored the system to working
order.

I did another Refresh in May, as it was being erratic again, this time I ran a HD Check, which passed, and a did a chkdsk /r. The file system corrected some errors.

By July, the system still behaved erratically, so in July, I did another chkdsk /r, which corrected system errors.A week later, a BSOD occurred, DEVICE_DRIVER_NOT_THREADED. Looking this message up, one of the suggestions was updating the AMD graphics driver.
Because Driver Booster made the system unstable before, I ran the AMD Auto-Detect Utility, and it told me there wasn't an updated driver for Windows 10!

Everything seemed fine when he started using Edge, but then yesterday, I got a call, saying it was going slowly.

The DEVICE_DRIVER_NOT_THREADED BSOD had occurred again, pointing to atikmdag.sys, dxgkrml.sys and ntoskrnl.sys. I uninstalled and reinstalled the graphics driver, but this did not make any difference.



The stats:



Acer Aspire V5-122P with W8 (upgraded to 10)

4GB RAM

500GB HDD

AMD Radeon HD8210



Any suggestions?

 

Windows 10 freezing on Acer Aspire V5-122P

Sigh.

I already posted a step-by-step solution to the problem earlier in this thread.

Maybe you will read it if I link to another website.

Pay special attention to step one, where I clearly said DO NOT SKIP THIS STEP, or Windows will re-install the rogue graphics driver after every reboot.