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New Computer -- 7 Slows Dramatically After Limited Use
Hey gents,
Have a brand new Lenovo Thinkpad SL410 with 3 GB of memory that sure doesn't seem to be acting like it. Runs Windows 7 on an Intel Celeron DualCore, 1.90 GHz.
I recently became addicted to a certain TV show about people stranded on an island and have been watching episodes on my new laptop. The problem I'm running into is, somewhere between one to four episodes in, my computer gets VERY sluggish, and progressively so; the video gets incredibly choppy; and I have to reboot Windows. Then everything's fine again... for a little while. Then it happens all over again, like some kind of repeating nightmare I keep waking up from then falling back asleep into, over and over.
At first I thought it was Internet Explorer, so I downloaded Google Chrome. Same exact problem. It's not my Internet connection -- I can watch online video all day long on my other computers, and they're fine. And once the video problem kicks in with my new computer, everything else slows down quite a bit too, and stays that way until I restart.
I've got a ton of memory, plenty of free hard drive space (137 GB out of 287 free) -- just can't figure out what's going on with this thing.
Any help, guidance, suggestions -- all would be very much appreciated. Starting to drive me nuts. Any other information you require, feel free to ask.
Thanks fellas,
Talon