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CPU

Go slow

March 6, 2012
Go slow

System: Pentium D 3.4Ghz, 2GB RAM, Windows XP Professional Q: My computer runs very slowly even after deleting all of the partitions on hard drive and doing a clean install so that only Windows is running. All the solutions I’ve found indicate this is a [...]

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CPU cycle

February 7, 2012
CPU cycle

System: Acer Aspire M1640, Intel Core Duo E4700 2.6GHz, 2 GB RAM, Windows Vista Home Premium Q: I have noticed in Windows Task Manager that the CPU seems to regularly cycle from 100% down to about 50% and I wondered whether I might need to [...]

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Noise annoys

August 29, 2011
Noise annoys

System: Intel Core 2 Duo, MSI 975X Platinum motherboard, Windows 7 Home Premium Q: My PC was built for me by a friend and has been fine for the past year or so. However, recently the CPU fan has become very noisy, making a ticking, [...]

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