Cpu ghz speed low

Brian1826

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Aug 13, 2016
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Hi,

I've been having this problem with my laptop now for like a week or 2 now and I'm seriously getting frustrated I don't know what to do to fix it, my cpu was running @ approx 2.2ghz and now it's at a flat 0.50ghz this happened just one day I turned it on n pow it went full on snail speed. I've ran McAfee virus prot. Ran disk defrags, disk clean ups turned all settings to high performance everything! I cleaned up my comp from programs I don't use, update my drivers ran computer diagnostics everything checks out good. If someone can help that would be greatly appreciated. Thanks :/

I have a laptop
Intel (r) celeron (r) n2840 @2.16ghz
 
Solution
How do you know without checking? If the cooler has become dislodged a cpu can heat up in seconds to an unsafe temperature. You need to check it, take a look at what the temp is while just in the BIOS or download and run HWMonitor.