So, I have an old laptop and I've been looking at ways to restore its original performance because something happened a few years back and it hasn't run the same ever since. For reference, I have a Sony Vaio VPCF120FD with a first Gen i5 mobile processor (dual core) and an Nvidia 310M graphics card (512MB).
Anyway, I had unplugged my laptop and was working on battery power when all my applications shut down and things got buggy. However, it managed to return to desktop and gave me several errors: RAM crashed, video card crashed, processor crashed, HDD crashed, etc. Basically every physical component crashed.
It then refused to boot up in normal mode (blue screen), but after booting up in safe mode, I was able to boot it up in regular mode afterwards just fine, with one issue: The PC was much slower than it used to be. So I sent it in to Sony under warranty, and they found nothing wrong and reinstalled Windows 7. It came back just as slow as I sent it off. It's been 7 years since then (the laptop is 9 years old)
I suspect the motherboard failed, but am not sure because it worked afterward (at reduced performance). A processor error or RAM error could have also caused an issue like this (I think: they both also connect to and deal with instructions from the other components), so I really don't know what happened.
Does anybody know for sure, or has anyone experienced this? I'd rather know what I'm getting into before buying stuff to "upgrade", as trial and error is not an ideal process financially.
Anyway, I had unplugged my laptop and was working on battery power when all my applications shut down and things got buggy. However, it managed to return to desktop and gave me several errors: RAM crashed, video card crashed, processor crashed, HDD crashed, etc. Basically every physical component crashed.
It then refused to boot up in normal mode (blue screen), but after booting up in safe mode, I was able to boot it up in regular mode afterwards just fine, with one issue: The PC was much slower than it used to be. So I sent it in to Sony under warranty, and they found nothing wrong and reinstalled Windows 7. It came back just as slow as I sent it off. It's been 7 years since then (the laptop is 9 years old)
I suspect the motherboard failed, but am not sure because it worked afterward (at reduced performance). A processor error or RAM error could have also caused an issue like this (I think: they both also connect to and deal with instructions from the other components), so I really don't know what happened.
Does anybody know for sure, or has anyone experienced this? I'd rather know what I'm getting into before buying stuff to "upgrade", as trial and error is not an ideal process financially.