ARCtangentleman
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System: I have been using a Toshiba Satellite L305 since 2009. More specs at following URL:
http://www.cnet.com/products/toshib...vista-home-premium-2-gb-ram-250-gb-hdd/specs/
I have been running Windows 7 ever since it came out. I am a pretty typical user and have experienced the typical gradual decrease in performance as I add programs and take up more disk space. Until recently...
Background: The power input jack became loose so I opened the computer to expose the guts. I re-soldered the jack and epoxied it into place. In the process, I removed the hard drive and RAM chips looking for hidden screws. While the computer was open, I took the opportunity to clean off the dust from the area around the cooling fan. The operation was successful and the power jack works fine now.
Problem: Ever since I put the computer back together, it runs at a fraction of it's former speed. Google Chrome and Windows Explorer run slow and frequently crash. At first I thought it was a virus, coincidentally caught right around the time the jack broke. I updated Avast and ran a scan: no luck. I ran Ccleaner and manually freed up space on my hard drive: no luck. I monitored the task manager to see if there was a particular culprit: I don't necessarily know what to look for but it seems like I'm running on a lot of memory. With Chrome (8 tabs open) and the task manager running, I am using 888 MB out of 1 GB.
Question: Could I have damaged something while opening my laptop? Should I take out the RAM and clean the contacts?
http://www.cnet.com/products/toshib...vista-home-premium-2-gb-ram-250-gb-hdd/specs/
I have been running Windows 7 ever since it came out. I am a pretty typical user and have experienced the typical gradual decrease in performance as I add programs and take up more disk space. Until recently...
Background: The power input jack became loose so I opened the computer to expose the guts. I re-soldered the jack and epoxied it into place. In the process, I removed the hard drive and RAM chips looking for hidden screws. While the computer was open, I took the opportunity to clean off the dust from the area around the cooling fan. The operation was successful and the power jack works fine now.
Problem: Ever since I put the computer back together, it runs at a fraction of it's former speed. Google Chrome and Windows Explorer run slow and frequently crash. At first I thought it was a virus, coincidentally caught right around the time the jack broke. I updated Avast and ran a scan: no luck. I ran Ccleaner and manually freed up space on my hard drive: no luck. I monitored the task manager to see if there was a particular culprit: I don't necessarily know what to look for but it seems like I'm running on a lot of memory. With Chrome (8 tabs open) and the task manager running, I am using 888 MB out of 1 GB.
Question: Could I have damaged something while opening my laptop? Should I take out the RAM and clean the contacts?
