Hello Community/HP
One of my customers bought a ProBook 4530s (from me). It's really slow. CPU shows 80-100% CPU usage. Often caused by svchost.exe. This was from the beginning. Unfortunately the customer did wait until the warranty expired when he complained about it.
I'm an IT Guy, so I thought I put in an SSD Disk (replaced oem standard disk) and reinstalled Windows 7 from scratch. Just to make sure it's not malware or something. But I can't fix it :-(
Windows Setup from DVD took 2hrs or so (onto an SSD)! I did update the BIOS to F.41 and reset the BIOS to defaults. Then I installed the Chipset drivers, Rapid Storage Driver, important windows updates by HP etc. etc.
Everytime I changed something it looked ok at first sight, but after a few minutes or using Internet Explorer etc. the CPU usage did rise again.
I changed the auto switch mode in Catalyst Control Centre to manual and set it to always use Power Saving GPU (because screen refresh was also "stuttering" when cpu is high). Again, it looked better or a moment but using other software is nearly impossible, every mouse click takes seconds.
I think there is something wrong with the SATA controller. It's impossible that this Core i5 laptop is THAT slow! Even after I switched to an SSD!
Please, HP, is this a common problem with this ProBook?
