if anything running your laptop in cold weather will help it run better because everything will be cooler and the fan wont have to run as much.

the problem is occurring about every 2/3 startups, the cpu usage goes to 100% when no apps running, nothing. Could it have anything to do with the DVD drive? On thursday I'm going to take a trip to Glasgow and seek professional help. Ali

Hi,
I had that same problem on my old inspiron 6000, if i remember correctly a format fixed the problem.

Nick

try what bill said (reseating the RAM) first then make sure their are no viruses. high CPU usage with no apps running usually indicates a virus has infected ur comp.

EDIT : @ Nick

a format fixed ur problem because it was probably a virus. reformatting ended up getting rid of the virus and hence it solved your problem. thats why i suggest checking for a virus (to the OP) and cleaning it before reformatting as it will erase all your data.

thanks for all your help. It does sound like a virus or corrupted OS. Why does it only occur every other startup though? Ali

well probably the virus causes it. either the virus is meant to distrupt your startups on purpose or by accident (i.e. meaning the virus was written wrong).

after a virus is just code that is meant to cause harm, so just like legit programing there are of course errors and bugs.

I've just successfully run the A17 Bios file. :smileysurprised:

Now I have to wait a while and see if the problem persists. :smileywink:

Ali

 

3 weeks have gone by and I've had no problems at all. Bios update cured my laptop.

Thanks for the advise.

P.S. I'm glad it wasn't the RAM cause I took the hatch off and had a look, took fright

and put the hatch back on!