Lac3y
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Yesterday I posted a topic about me getting a new laptop. Well, this is because my other laptop broke and I'm getting a new one on the insurance.
Now, before I claimed I took it to a repair shop and they couldn't tell me what was wrong, and the insurance people have took it away to do their own anaylsis. However, things like this bug me so I just have to know what is wrong.
The Laptop:
Samsung V25
Pentium 4
2.66GHz
30GD HDD
512MB RAM
The Symptoms you ask? Read below:
Over the past couple of weeks my laptop got very hot. However, I just thought it was because I use it quite a lot on a/c power. Then, one day it started running very slow. I am very careful about spyware and viruses and scan my laptop everyday, so I ran a scan with adaware. It only found one infection but when it deleted it my laptop ran fine again.
However, everytime I switched my laptop on it was running slow, and after about a week even adaware wasn't kicking it into running fine again.
So I took it to a shop, they said two fans at the top of the unit weren't working, so he fixed them, but my laptop still ran slow.
I took it home and ran some tests with sandra and a processor speed tool. The processor speed tool found that my processor was running perfectly, and I bought a new harddrive so it ain't that.
The only thing I can think of is the motherboard, but I am merely a common mortal.
What do you guys think? Is my laptop gone forever? Or will the insurance company be able to fix it (I hope not)?
Thanks
Now, before I claimed I took it to a repair shop and they couldn't tell me what was wrong, and the insurance people have took it away to do their own anaylsis. However, things like this bug me so I just have to know what is wrong.
The Laptop:
Samsung V25
Pentium 4
2.66GHz
30GD HDD
512MB RAM
The Symptoms you ask? Read below:
Over the past couple of weeks my laptop got very hot. However, I just thought it was because I use it quite a lot on a/c power. Then, one day it started running very slow. I am very careful about spyware and viruses and scan my laptop everyday, so I ran a scan with adaware. It only found one infection but when it deleted it my laptop ran fine again.
However, everytime I switched my laptop on it was running slow, and after about a week even adaware wasn't kicking it into running fine again.
So I took it to a shop, they said two fans at the top of the unit weren't working, so he fixed them, but my laptop still ran slow.
I took it home and ran some tests with sandra and a processor speed tool. The processor speed tool found that my processor was running perfectly, and I bought a new harddrive so it ain't that.
The only thing I can think of is the motherboard, but I am merely a common mortal.
What do you guys think? Is my laptop gone forever? Or will the insurance company be able to fix it (I hope not)?
Thanks