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    W500 Issues

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by SuperAwesomeMan, Apr 12, 2009.

  1. SuperAwesomeMan

    SuperAwesomeMan Notebook Enthusiast

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    My W500 has been running extremely slowly lately. It runs at the usual speed for maybe up to an hour right after a restart, then either after about an hour at most, going into sleep mode, or running a somewhat stressful application i.e. a game, it'll be slower than a snail with a hernia. Normally IE loads up in a second, but now its taking up to half a minute to load up! And task manager says that not even a quarter of ram is being used and that cpu is also barely used.

    This started happening after I installed Maple Story for my brother to play and Adobe CS4 pro. I think there might be some connection, but I'm not sure.

    Anyone have any ideas :confused: Thanks in advance.
     
    SuperAwesomeMan, Apr 12, 2009
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  2. MidnightSun

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    Download ProcessExplorer (link in my signature) and run it. See if "Hardware Interrupts" is using up a lot of your CPU.
     
    MidnightSun, Apr 13, 2009
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  3. SuperAwesomeMan

    SuperAwesomeMan Notebook Enthusiast

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    No, Hardware Interrupts isn't taking very much CPU.

    BTW, what is Hardware Interrupts?
     
    SuperAwesomeMan, Apr 13, 2009
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    jaredy Notebook Virtuoso

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    Google IRQ. But basically certain hardware components are fighting for resources and if the IRQs aren't set properly it can cause conflicts, hence possible CPU usage.
     
    jaredy, Apr 13, 2009
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    Renee Notebook Virtuoso

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    Check to see if you are slowing down becuase of the presence of a worm or it's equivalent.
     
    Renee, Apr 13, 2009
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