Macbook sluggish, even after reinstall

[blazerdude20]

i have an early 09 aluminum macbook.

its been a pretty good machine until the last few months. its become very slow and i have to reboot sometimes just to get it to speed up/ stop freezing. tired of this i reinstalled osx using the disc that came with the computer. i chose the archive option. the macbook is now slower and almost unusable.

any ideas of what i can do to fix it?


just restarted and now my keyboard and trackpad/mouse no longer work.

 

[vistadude]

Sounds like the hard disk is dying. Time to put a new hard disk in.

 

[blazerdude20]

Sounds like the hard disk is dying. Time to put a new hard disk in.

would disk utility be able to confirm that? or is just a wait and see type of deal?

thanks.

 

[Mutinygraphiks]

It could be a failing hard drive or maybe one of your sticks of ram is going bad!

Best way to check is in disk utility and see if you have to repair permissions, and if it doesn't repair all or at all I would suggest a new HDD.

 

[ibuyufo]

It's possible that your hard drive is failing or the CPU is overheating. The first thing you should do is to run a hard drive diagnostics.

Try this link and it explains what you need to do to do a hardware diagnostics.

http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1509

 

[eman]

Try to run "permissions" and "repair disk" in disk utility, if no joy try to start your mac from an external hard drive and see if your problems are gone.

 

[StockDC2]

A failing hard drive will not cause the keyboard and trackpad to go bad. I am putting my money on a dying logic board.

 

[blazerdude20]

Thanks to everyone for the tips.

i ran the disk utility and repaired persmissions, etc. finally reinstalled again and it runs great now. the track pad has also been replaced, it was getting stuck in the pressed position.

good as new!