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Nove

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So I have an Acer Aspire 5250. It used to be blazing fast and good for the price but some of they keys fell of and got lost. So we sent it back and they gave us a refurbished one but now thing thing is hella slow takes forever to load pages.. Freezes easily.. Can't watch any videos in fullscreen or in HD without lag and I used to be able to do that all easily even play minecraft on low settings fine. I reinstalled Windows 7 and that didn't help either. Any idea what it could be? I am guessing its a component is it the HDD or what is a very slow system a sign of? the HDD is 500GB and it has 4gb of ram and AMD Radeon HD 6320 Graphics along with a dual core CPU.
 
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plaintuts
well i do agree with toppkat420,

but if the hard drive functions properly, then the problem can be caused by improper heat dissipation.
this can be fixed by reapplying thermal compound and thermal pads in the cpu heatsink.
also by cleaning the fan exhaust and intake, but cleaning the fans is not recommended if the laptop is not dissembled.
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Well i would wait for an expert to answer your question, i just have basic knowledge of computer hardware, it would be nice to check your cpu usage during these freezes to see if it is peaking .
 
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hi,

you can switch your laptop to high performance profile to force the laptop to aggressively use more resources.

right click on the battery icon on the system tray, then choose high performance instead of balanced or power saving.
 
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I have already done that I am ready to replace a part I have tried everything hardware related.
 
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well i do agree with toppkat420,

but if the hard drive functions properly, then the problem can be caused by improper heat dissipation.
this can be fixed by reapplying thermal compound and thermal pads in the cpu heatsink.
also by cleaning the fan exhaust and intake, but cleaning the fans is not recommended if the laptop is not dissembled.
 
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