PC slowing down
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Thanks all for your suggestions while I've been away, now back on the case
The BIOS is now updated to the latest version (no change in behaviours) and I've disabled both EIST and CPU C-States in BIOS so that speedstep shouldn't kick in
I've also pulled out hardware so it's back to bare bones (although I need to leave the graphics card in, for obvious reasons)
I'm logging CPU usage, CPU temps and power draw
One thing I can tie this down to is going to sleep; have task manager open showing CPU speed as 3.57 GHz. Screen goes black and I immediately wake it up by pressing a key and the CPU speed is now 0.40 GHz and haven't found a way to speed it up again
That's happening even if I send it to sleep from the Power menu...
The BIOS is now updated to the latest version (no change in behaviours) and I've disabled both EIST and CPU C-States in BIOS so that speedstep shouldn't kick in
I've also pulled out hardware so it's back to bare bones (although I need to leave the graphics card in, for obvious reasons)
I'm logging CPU usage, CPU temps and power draw
One thing I can tie this down to is going to sleep; have task manager open showing CPU speed as 3.57 GHz. Screen goes black and I immediately wake it up by pressing a key and the CPU speed is now 0.40 GHz and haven't found a way to speed it up again
That's happening even if I send it to sleep from the Power menu...
it's not so much patience as keep having to travel away before achieving resolution
I did follow TN's advice on Friday and update the chipset drivers; I've had to travel out to Silicon Valley Saturday morning so not really had time to prove that the PC will stay up long term
I could clone the OS to another disk and install Win 8 again from DVD onto a clean desk, those are on the list if it's still misbehaving when I get back
I did follow TN's advice on Friday and update the chipset drivers; I've had to travel out to Silicon Valley Saturday morning so not really had time to prove that the PC will stay up long term
I could clone the OS to another disk and install Win 8 again from DVD onto a clean desk, those are on the list if it's still misbehaving when I get back
I don't know if you are running Windows 8 or 8.1 but if it was me I would do a new install of 8 and IMMEDIATELY upgrade it to 8.1 (you don't have to do zillions of updates to do that if necessary I can show how)
I just think without that you wont know.
Then again it could be a hidden faulty board issue I don't suppose any of the caps look bulging ?
Just a thought
I just think without that you wont know.
Then again it could be a hidden faulty board issue I don't suppose any of the caps look bulging ?
Just a thought
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