Slow laptop computer problem...

consciousthirteen

consciousthirteen

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So I was in the cover song thread checking out the videos and my computer slows to a freaking crawl. It's still running hard even though the usage is down.

I have a HP DV8125nr:
windows XP media center edition SP3
AMD Turion 64 Mobile Technology ML-32 1.79GHz
2Gb of RAM
Integrated ATI Radeon Xpress 200m graphics

I know it's not the greatest setup but I could play Battlefield 2 on this no problem and now I can't even watch a freaking Youtube video.

I have Avast running on the machine real time.
I'm using Mozilla Firefox v3.0.11 with multiple tabs open but this is the only tab that had things like avatars going as well.

What could it be?
 
reformat the entire thing, and then reinstall only the stuff you've used in the past 2 weeks. everything else stays on a cd.
 
YouTube player is based upon Flash, that's not a very fast computer, and Flash is known for eating CPU cycles alive. Was it a HD clip?
 
check for alot of heat on the underside of it. I bought one of those fan stands that my laptop sits on and it really helped the problem.
 
If your laptop is overheating it's probably due to something like this:

I see it all the time, remove the lint and it doesn't overheat.

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seXysiXer said:
check for alot of heat on the underside of it. I bought one of those fan stands that my laptop sits on and it really helped the problem.
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haha you know what, I'm gonna take it apart. I bet it looks like that photo :lol:
I'll update if that doesn't fix the problem.

Edit/update: I just found out I don't know how to get in there to clean it...I can pop out the battery, I can swap out memory, and I can get to the HDDs but I don't know how to get to the motherboard and what not to clean out the dust. Do I lift out the keyboard after I take out every freaking screw because the bottom panel doesn't come off. I noticed there are little keyboard symbols by most of the screws. Is that the case?
 
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ha I bet mine looks like that photo too. Mark's german shepherd sheds just like that too. His house has to be vacuumed everyday!

The first year I had this thing I lived overthere so maybe I should take it apart too.
 
Heat is not your problem most likely though, when a laptop overheats it just shuts off usually without warning. If it slows down to a crawl it's probably software related.

easy2cy said:
Thanks! After looking at those instructions, I know I'm not doing this myself. I don't want to mess this thing up right before I get deployed. I will definitely need it.
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