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03/17/2011 10:15:12 AM · #1 |
My brother has a Acer G50v laptop which he has had about 18-24months and for the last 6months has ran unusably slow. I've tried doing a clean install which had no effect.
The laptop itself occasionally make a clicking noise which led me to believe it was a Harddrive fault, but after opening it up it seems the clicking is coming from the fan (the laptop also gets very hot)
Would a fault with the fan causing overheating be likely to make the laptop run slow?
Just want some confirmation before I get him a new fan.
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03/17/2011 10:22:37 AM · #2 |
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03/17/2011 08:24:57 PM · #3 |
| Yup. It can also cause permanent damage and do all sorts of fun things to the hardware, cause "interesting" crashes, BSOD's... |
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03/17/2011 08:52:27 PM · #4 |
| heat definitely causes all kinds of problems. The slowness can also be an indicator that a capacitor on the motherboard is about ready to blow. At work we bought a whole slew of IBM desktops about 7 years ago and they all had a problem where the caps would blow and we would need to replace them. I could always tell when one was ready to go when the end user started complaining about it suddenly slowing to a crawl. |
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03/17/2011 08:54:06 PM · #5 |
| Could certainly slow it down. It may well be throttling way bock on speed when it senses high temperature on the chip. That doesn't mean anything has necessarily sustained permanent damage. Replacing the fan should be cheap; do that and see where it gets you. |
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