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    PCG-K115M Overheating/Hanging

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by 316894, Oct 27, 2008.

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    Hey all, my first post here (thankfully), I have a Vaio PCG-K115M which I've had for about 4 years now and have had no problems with it at all. Recently however (past 6 months or so), my Vaio has been getting extremely hot and the fan seems to be running at full blast constantly within minutes of powering up my Vaio. To add to this the overall performance of the Vaio seems to be suffering aswell. I could usually have Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and Firefox open simultaneously with many documents and switch between them with little to no slowdown, but things are taking alot longer now, and my system often crashes if I have a good few documents open. I realise I don't have the greatest amount of RAM, but this was never a problem before.

    Any help with resolving this issue is greatly appreciated.


    My Vaio's spec's are listed as follows (According to System Properties):

    Sony Vaio PCG-K115M
    XP Home Edition SP1
    Intel Pentium 4 CPU 2.80GHz
    512MB of RAM


    On a side note.. while viewing the above info' I saw that under 'Intel Pentium 4 CPU 2.80GHz' it says "1.03GHz". I've never noticed this before, can anyone explain? (See attached image)

    Thanks again, Scott.
     

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