What happened to my laptop?

Aj Paul

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Oct 17, 2013
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Hi ,

I had a old laptop which is almost 7 years old with 2 GB ram and Intel Core 2 duo processor. It use to work fine untill last month but I am not sure what happened then , browsing part is okay but it has very bad performance specially against Flash player .

I thought there must be a virus , so I reinstalled new windows (win 7 which use to work perfectly for the last 3-4 years) but it has no difference . The weird part is , it works fine unless I watch vidoes (most of the time on youtube) and when I play those on lets say YouTube , it is very very choppy and is not fluid .

Just to mention , there is nothing in start up and I have plenty of free memory .

Did any one encountered this kind of issue before . If yes then please help ..

Thanks
AJ
 
Solution
Check the cooling subsystem. It could be that your fan/heatsink is compromised (fan seized, partially seized, or heatsink clogged internally with a film of dust).

Try HWMonitor or similar to check your laptop's temperatures (CPU mostly) during a flash play back, and see if your temperatures are getting too high to cause some form of throttling to take place.
Check the cooling subsystem. It could be that your fan/heatsink is compromised (fan seized, partially seized, or heatsink clogged internally with a film of dust).

Try HWMonitor or similar to check your laptop's temperatures (CPU mostly) during a flash play back, and see if your temperatures are getting too high to cause some form of throttling to take place.
 
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