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Question

Asus laptop performance issue

by Jul 13, 2015 1:43PM PDT

Hi.
I own an Asus N55S laptop, it's not a new laptop but it's not a very old laptop and it should run good.
Lately tho, when ever I try to run a game (not even a high graphics one, even very low graphics) or when playing a movie the laptop start lagging a lot, and it also makes weird static noises.
The laptop was fully formatted few days ago.
I am looking for a solution or a direction to my problem. Thanks for the appliers.

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Is this from 2011?
by r. proffitt Forum moderator Jul 13, 2015 2:12PM PDT
http://www.notebookcheck.net/Asus-N55S.63524.0.html

If so the suspects are heat and malware. To address the malware restore the machine to it's factory condition. For heat, get out the canned air and do the vents daily for a week, weekly for a month and then back to your 1st of the month routine.
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You might have solved the prob
by AlonZR Jul 14, 2015 12:41AM PDT

yes it is from 2011.
And you might have solved my problem, i just ran a temperature program and my PC got to 99 Celsius with a simple game..
Thx a lot man.
BTW, can the canned air method compete with a lab opening up my laptop and cleaning it from the inside?

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I'm going with yes.
by r. proffitt Forum moderator Jul 14, 2015 4:45AM PDT

And it's less risky than opening up an old laptop.

I hope you can see why the prescription is daily for a week, weekly for a month and then your 1st of the month as regular maintenance.

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if it was formated
by Jul 13, 2015 2:11PM PDT

If you just formatted and reinstall the other day, then windows could still be updating and the indexing service could still be running. both will slow down your computer for a few days until they are finished. Also, when you reinstalled, did you install the original os or a different one?

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new ASUS owner
by Jul 13, 2015 7:49PM PDT

Sad to hear as I just bought an ASUS x555 Core i3.
Hope I wont have any issues. But heck, I've had 10 clunkers in 10 years, upgraded some.
Just contact ASUS support, it'll do, or get a new lappy.

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