Stalling IO and Tasks - Not HDD

Hello everyone,
I've been tasked with repairing a Macbook Pro (Model A1278) from a friend of a friend.
The laptop was given to me reportedly with a broken keyboard from Liquid Damage. They said the keyboard needed a replacement as it was "100% unresponsive". The first time I received the laptop I powered it up and it took a hefty 10 minutes or so to boot into OSX and then several minutes longer to do every operation. Turns out, the keyboard is fine. I figured with the slow responsiveness the RAM or HDD was busted and ran a few hardware tests which all reported things as "Good".
Simple tasks like launching a terminal would result in "Login Timeout" or similar errors. Rebooting was sometimes fruitless as it would fail to boot entirely citing various boot errors in verbose mode. When it would boot, like I said, things were slow but seemed to behave fine once they were done once (Disk Utility would boot up pronto after it was launched the first time. Assuming it was cached in RAM or the sort?)
I figured the HDD was shot and replaced it today with an old 500GB drive I salvaged from a since scrapped Laptop. After booting from the disk it displayed the same behavior. I'm currently stalled in Disk Utility trying to Erase the new drive but its been "Preparing to Erase" for well into an hour. Are there compatability issues with HDDs?
So I ask, if the HDD is not to blame then what's the next source of failure I would need to troubleshoot? I'm comfortable tearing down the laptop but really have no idea what I'm looking for.

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