So last night I had iTunes open and I was using Internet Explorer. My laptop was running just fine, 2GB RAM, quite fast. As I was surfing the net, It blue-screened and when I restarted the laptop, it was running SLOOOOWW. Its still like that. Anybody have any idea whats wrong with it? It was running slow before and I had a tech reformat the HDD and upgrade the RAM and now it does this. Help!
Problem is, my computer was running perfectly before it blue screened. After it blue screened is when it became slow again. Theres no virus/spyware. HDD isnt full either.
negative. The RAM sticks match & theyre "high" quality. The PC is reading all 2000+MBs of memory. The memory was installed about a month ago. The problem happened last night. normal PC>blue screen>slow PC
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1 Susan // Oct 2, 2008
A computer may be slow due to various reasons. Like virus to HDD space.There is a nice article on slow computer and its solution in the following link. Have a look on that it may help you in resolving your issue.
http://itsupportcell.com/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=38
2 admiralgill // Oct 2, 2008
The fact that you had the RAM updated and it is crashing to the blue screen makes me suspicious of that memory. If the mem modules are not matched they will tend to run together but be unstable. It may be so slow because it is really only using some and not all of your memory. There is mush that can be told from the event logs and from examination of these things. let us know if you need more help beyond this general assistance.
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3 powerxofxwill // Oct 2, 2008
The blue screen is usually a sign of hardware/drivers issue. If you upgraded the ram recently, that could be it. The blue screen usually gives you a line at the bottom to tell you what exactly is causing the crash.
4 Rommel Olido // Oct 2, 2008
There are many factors that slows down your computer, maybe there is a virus infection is your system, the wear and tear of your computer chips like processor, RAM and motherboard can also slow down a computer, also if your system is not arrange properly. I reccomend you to scan your laptop with antivirus and you may also reformat your laptop and install a fresh copy of Operating System
5 wazimu // Oct 2, 2008
I would say about the blue screen that there must be some driver/dll/ocx or one of those files needed to recognize certain sofwares or hardwares that is corrupt or missing and in the process of trying to get it…
For the being slow i cwould say some process/es may have been initiated that run in the background but caused the laptops resources to be overused. may be if you had the process explorer software you could have seen them and what initiated them and killed them.
I sometimes just restart the machine and it jus works fine. But you can first try repairing your windows by running the OS intstallation cd. Or pause any softwares that start automaticaly eg antiviruses so as to get some resources to work while the hidden processes work.
6 dogenzenji // Oct 2, 2008
use system restore to restore it to an earlier state.
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