Ok so I've had my laptop for about 2 months and up until now I have had no problems with it.
Laptop is....
HP EliteBook 8440w
Intel i5 2.4ghz (vPro)
4gb RAM (3gb usable)
On-board nVidia Graphics
Windows 7 Professional 32bit
It's a good laptop and like I said, didn't have an issue with it. But recently, actually as of 2 days ago, I've been having issues with the CPU running up to 100% and the computer slowing down. This seems to happen randomly, I'm not running anything that would've caused it to slow down before. So my initial thought is it's possibly a virus causing the problem. As of now I've probably run every scan I have twice (Norton, Advanced System care 4, Malwarebytes, Malware Fighter) I've defragged the HD, un-installed programs, really have done everything I could possibly think of to try and solve the issue. Scans didn't come up with any viruses and I haven't seen an improvement. I also thought my CPU could be overheating, I sprayed some compressed air into the vents, but the comp may slow down within 20 minutes of me turning it on, too soon for it to be directly an overheating issue.
I do open Task Manager when it runs high to see if there's anything specific causing the issue, but I can't find anything. Basically whatever's running at the moment is what is running the highest, even Task manager shows up as the one running the highest under CPU. It seems like something 2 days ago caused my computer to not be able to handle what it used to. I've noticed the things that tend to slow it down will be Youtube videos (not right away, but it will eventually slow it up), Music, or just simple multi-tasking ex. having Skype open and a few Google Chrome tabs open. None of this stuff ever used to slow it down, I game on this laptop and it would work pretty well. Usually play Cod4, Rift or CS:S and even those wouldn't slow it down unless something crazy was happening.
Really just looking to see if anyone has any idea of a possible solution to my problem, suggestions of what could be some possible causes. At this point I'm pretty stumped. I'm down to a couple of ideas of what my issue could be. I could have a Virus that isn't being detected by my scans, my friend got the idea into my head that I could possibly be hacked (something about hackers will hack into others computers and use them to host servers or something to that nature), or another suggestion I got was that if it happens with Youtube videos that i may be a Java issue.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Laptop is....
HP EliteBook 8440w
Intel i5 2.4ghz (vPro)
4gb RAM (3gb usable)
On-board nVidia Graphics
Windows 7 Professional 32bit
It's a good laptop and like I said, didn't have an issue with it. But recently, actually as of 2 days ago, I've been having issues with the CPU running up to 100% and the computer slowing down. This seems to happen randomly, I'm not running anything that would've caused it to slow down before. So my initial thought is it's possibly a virus causing the problem. As of now I've probably run every scan I have twice (Norton, Advanced System care 4, Malwarebytes, Malware Fighter) I've defragged the HD, un-installed programs, really have done everything I could possibly think of to try and solve the issue. Scans didn't come up with any viruses and I haven't seen an improvement. I also thought my CPU could be overheating, I sprayed some compressed air into the vents, but the comp may slow down within 20 minutes of me turning it on, too soon for it to be directly an overheating issue.
I do open Task Manager when it runs high to see if there's anything specific causing the issue, but I can't find anything. Basically whatever's running at the moment is what is running the highest, even Task manager shows up as the one running the highest under CPU. It seems like something 2 days ago caused my computer to not be able to handle what it used to. I've noticed the things that tend to slow it down will be Youtube videos (not right away, but it will eventually slow it up), Music, or just simple multi-tasking ex. having Skype open and a few Google Chrome tabs open. None of this stuff ever used to slow it down, I game on this laptop and it would work pretty well. Usually play Cod4, Rift or CS:S and even those wouldn't slow it down unless something crazy was happening.
Really just looking to see if anyone has any idea of a possible solution to my problem, suggestions of what could be some possible causes. At this point I'm pretty stumped. I'm down to a couple of ideas of what my issue could be. I could have a Virus that isn't being detected by my scans, my friend got the idea into my head that I could possibly be hacked (something about hackers will hack into others computers and use them to host servers or something to that nature), or another suggestion I got was that if it happens with Youtube videos that i may be a Java issue.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!