Aspire 5100 - LOTS OF PROBLEMS

WINDOWS XP MCE 2005 X86 (32bit)
AMD TURION 64X2
1 GIG shared Ram.
120 gig hd

I was wondering if you guys could please help me out.

My brothers old Dell Inspiron (forget model number) but its really old
out performs my laptop


First thing on the actul LCD display it says 5100, but then on that little sticker
on the laptop it says "Aspire 5102WLMi" which aspire do I even have? Im guessing
I should probly jus trust the one that says 5100 on the actul screen?


Now Secound MAJOR PROBLEM!

When Playing games even old games like Counter-Strike 1.6 it runs at about 70fps
then within about 2 minutes it drops to 4fps UNPLAYABLE! then it will fly up again
then go right back down! What gives?

when playing movies somtimes the movies even lag!
mostly youtube videos.

other then that pc runs fine

I've got a clean install of XP MCE going. Ive defragged used ccleaner
checked the disk for errors

but yet still have these problems!

I installed UBUNTU and I have no video playing problems under that.
I have whiped ubuntu off since tho.

whats going on here?

 

Your first "problem" is not a problem at all. You have a aspire 5102wlmi, the reason why it says aspire 5100 on the screen is because the model is from the aspire 5100 series. The 5100 series consist of models 5101, 5102, 5103, 5104, 5105. Each one has different hardware specifications but they all use the same BIOS and motherboard. So as you can see with this you have no problem

As for the video problem, that as been a problem that has plagued many 5100 users in the past. Some people said cleaning out the CPU fan solved the problem, for others this didn't work. Some also said updating the drivers helped. I have never had any video problems on my 5102 (especially not any problems viewing youtube videos).
It is interesting that you don't see this problem while you were running linux, perhaps it is a windows driver problem; as I know the ATI xpress 1100 (your graphics card) has very poor openGL performance with the windows driver.

 

when temperatures become high your pc automatically reduce system performance.
try the enter values manually.
i mean you must configure cpu speed on e_power management and video card speed on ati catalyst.maybe default values set for battery life and that can be reason low performance.if should it can't solve the problem you have to set cpu voltage low.rmclock gonna be help.