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Vasco Ferreira

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Sudently my PC started to slow down my games and i dont know why. But i've notice that hes faster on programs and that stuff but on games it is pretty slow. Can u guys help me? I dont know what to do!
 
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Ahh the Dell D820 - I know it very well, we use Dells at my workplace. The honest answer is: I'm not sure. My guess would be it's overheating. That laptop is a few years old now and I'm wondering if either the thermal compound connecting the processor to the heatsink is starting to fail, or it's simply starting to get full of dirt, hair and general crud that laptops and PCs hoover up over time. This is normal, all laptops will do this after a few years. If the laptop starts to overheat then the laptop will slow itself down to protect itself.

This is conjecture by me though. We have a support contract with Dell - if one goes wrong we simply send it back to a Dell engineer to fix, we rarely open them up to fix them ourselves.

Anyway...
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Time of this report: 5/1/2014, 13:22:23
Machine name: VEXXT-PC
Operating System: Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 2 (2600.xpsp_sp2_qfe.070227-2300)
Language: Portuguese (Regional Setting: Portuguese)
System Manufacturer: Dell Inc.
System Model: Latitude D820
BIOS: Phoenix ROM BIOS PLUS Version 1.10 A06
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU T5600 @ 1.83GHz (2 CPUs)
Memory: 1014MB RAM
Page File: 769MB used, 1671MB available
Windows Dir: C:\WINDOWS
DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)
DX Setup Parameters: Not found
DxDiag Version: 5.03.2600.2180 32bit Unicode


I play my games in 800x600 like always but they just run slow now idk why... even on the start up it takes more time showing "Windows XP"

I usually had 30/40 fps now i have 5/10/15 fps depending of the place i am
 
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Ahh the Dell D820 - I know it very well, we use Dells at my workplace. The honest answer is: I'm not sure. My guess would be it's overheating. That laptop is a few years old now and I'm wondering if either the thermal compound connecting the processor to the heatsink is starting to fail, or it's simply starting to get full of dirt, hair and general crud that laptops and PCs hoover up over time. This is normal, all laptops will do this after a few years. If the laptop starts to overheat then the laptop will slow itself down to protect itself.

This is conjecture by me though. We have a support contract with Dell - if one goes wrong we simply send it back to a Dell engineer to fix, we rarely open them up to fix them ourselves.

Anyway, I'm waffling. First step: to rule it out being a softare issue, first thing I would do is back up all of your data, wipe the harddrive and reinstall Windows XP from scratch.


 
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