Laptop all of a sudden running slow.

[hyPoxxx.dll]

My Dell Inspirion 1521 was running counterstrike source, battlefield 2, and command and conquer fine.

I figured it was the hard drive was going, so I upgraded from a 160gb to a 250gb.

Specs:

Dell Inspirion 1521:

-AMD Athlon X2 TK-58 @ 1.9ghz
-2 GB ocz 667mhz ram
-Radeon X1270
-250 gb hdd
-Windows vista home premium 32 bit.

Again, It ran games fine. Now it doesnt, this is really puzzling me!

Anyone have any suggestions?

 

[diduknowthat]

Slow just in games or slow running everything else? Have you tried running any defrags, registry cleaners etc?

 

[hyPoxxx.dll]

Slow just in games or slow running everything else? Have you tried running any defrags, registry cleaners etc?

Only in game. I have defraged, and yes ran a registry cleaner.
It seems like im overheating.

 

[atentora]

You could be. Did you have any settings for the graphics that might not have moved to the new HDD?

 

[Sir Travis D]

Download a temperature reader (google), and if they are too high you might need a cooling pad.

 

[hyPoxxx.dll]

The peak temp while under load is 70c. Is that too hot? And yes, i am using a cooling pad.

 

[diduknowthat]

The peak temp while under load is 70c. Is that too hot? And yes, i am using a cooling pad.

Nah, that's not too bad. There shouldn't be much problems until you get near 100C.

 

[cybereclipse]

whats the RPM of the drive you just bought and currently have in there
if its lower than the one you replaced, then thats the reason