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Question

Computer slow after blu-ray install

Apr 26, 2015 11:41AM PDT

I Installed a LG blu Ray burner/drive on my computer. Ever since the installation, it has become slow. What can be don?.

I have a HP Gaming desktop P6210F with 4 GB RAM (Initially had 8 GB Ram but since I receive Blue screen of death due to heating issues, I remove two 2 GB rams), 500 GB harddrive, AMD processor II X4 620 processor with 2.60 GHz speed, and windows 7 OS (64 Bit).

My computer takes a long time to shown down as well. I have tried to uninstall some programs as much as I can but beyond that it has become ridiculously slow.

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Did you resolve the heat issues?
Apr 26, 2015 12:15PM PDT

If not the CPU and such can slow to keep from burning out. I'd work that first with canned air and fresh heatsink compound.
Bob

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Fan goes on
Apr 27, 2015 1:13AM PDT

I believe the heat problem has gone away because of the fact the CPU does not enter the Blue screen anymore and it doesn't shut down by itself. It has been working fine (knock on the wood) so far for the past 3 years after it got fixed with the heating issue. That being said, the fan runs continuously in it as well.

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Sounds like it's dogging the machine.
Apr 27, 2015 1:34AM PDT

I dropped the hints of canned air and compound but I understand that folk want it to be anything else.
Bob

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After
Apr 26, 2015 11:49PM PDT

After you fix the heat issue, if you removed the wrong pair of ram sticks you will be running in single channel mode.
Not good for perf.

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So should I get more RAM
Apr 27, 2015 1:14AM PDT

So should I get more RAM? And how do I make sure that adding more RAM will not lead to more issues as previously?

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No
Apr 27, 2015 2:14AM PDT

Get the heat issue sorted first.
Whatever that's going to take.....cleaning/thermal paste/fans...etc.

Now install the pair of ram sticks you removed...test.

How do you know this is a heat issue?