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    Envy 14 Internet problems

    Discussion in 'HP' started by seth83292, Jun 8, 2011.

  1. seth83292

    seth83292 Notebook Consultant

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    Recently, my envy's been doing some odd things
    I'll be surfing the internet fine, and all of a sudden the wifi adapter would turn itself off.
    I fixed that by updating the 6200's driver to the latest (14.0.2.2), which seems to have fixed that problem
    However, now, the Internet will stop working, the proccessor usage will spike to 30-50% usage and the temps shoot up to 70-90's, which freaks me out
    Any idea on what to do?
    I've run virus scans, And my windows is up to date
    Also, please ignore any spelling errors, I had to type this only phone

    Edit:
    Wut. Apparently it's just google chrome being an . Internet explorer works fine, and the processor usage spike is just the chrome process being stupid.
    I really like chrome though, and I don't particularly want to be using IE/Opera (Although, I am impressed by how much better IE has become)
    What could be going wrong?
     
    seth83292, Jun 8, 2011
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  2. lammah

    lammah Notebook Evangelist

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    Google chrome has been using more resources than it used to. I noticed that on my older computers where chrome used to be snappy and now starts to lag a bit.

    Opera now seems to be the most resource efficient browser out there.

    Besides, I have been having issues on some websites with chrome, especially those with high security features (banks, insurance, flex spending accounts and such)
     
    lammah, Jun 8, 2011
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  3. MagusDraco

    MagusDraco Biiiiiiirrrrdmaaaaaaan

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    huh. well at least you guys didn't get that issue where scvhost/svchost (whatever the correct name of the exe is) is using 50-100% of your cpu whenever you turn the wifi on.

    yea. Turned out incompatible software on windows 7 is serious business. Enough to break windows 7.
     
    MagusDraco, Jun 8, 2011
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