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Not the computer!

ANTVGM64ANTVGM64 Registered User regular
edited April 2009 in Help / Advice Forum
http://reviews.cnet.com/laptops/gateway-p-6860fx/4505-3121_7-32976305.html

That, is my computer. And until recently, it has been fantastic, fast, it'll play the games I want to play, and never really gave me any problems.

Until I took the damn thing to Las Vegas. Upon return from Las Vegas and turning on my computer, it stayed on for about 20 minutes before shutting itself off. I turned it back on, only for it to do this again. Checking the ventilation areas I noticed some dust was clogged in one of the air vents, so I blew it all away with compressed air, and the fan started working again.

But now everything seems to be pretty sluggish. It took about 10 minutes for Steam to boot up the other day, then Fall Out 3 ran fine unless I used a VATS thing in which everything slowed down to a screeching halt.

The internet is a big laggy, and it feels like my connection is cutting in and out on it's own. I'm not sure if this is related or not.

And here's the weird part - A system restore tells me there are too many errors on my disk, yet when I ran a CHKDSK in safe mode it didn't come up with any errors.

I'm typically pretty Savy with computers, but find myself a bit on the stumped side today. Any suggestions?

Oh! when looking at task manager, my Memory Usage (for four gigs of Ram) is up around 35 percent, even if I only have Firefox and AIM running.

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