Ello all, I'm having a bit of an issue with my computer.
Anyway, I'm having an issue with my computer, and I can't seem to figure out what's wrong with it. What will happen is that I'll watch a video (either on Twitch.tv, YouTube, or even Amazon.com) on Google Chrome and everything will be fine. However, after anywhere from 45 minutes to about 2 hours, my CPU usage will spike to 100% (or near 100%) and my computer will lag severely, even after I close the video and web-browser. The only thing that seems to fix this lag is restarting the computer itself via a soft or hard restart.
Things I've done to try to fix this:
-Watched Videos in Firefox (still lagged)
-Uninstalled and re-installed Google Chrome (no effect)
-Disabled built-in Adobe Flash and installed Stand-Alone Flash (no effect)
-Ran AntiX on external hard drive (still had lag)
-Disabled hardware acceleration (No effect)
I strongly believe it is a hardware issue, although I've ran a diagnostic check and nothing was detected, minus an error code saying the Optical Drive couldn't be read. The thing is, my CD-DVD drive is still able to read and write CDs, so perhaps that's relevant. Probably not.
The computer I have is a Dell Inspiron 1564, which I've owned since May of 2010. I have changed out the hard drive and motherboard once, as well as the built-in keyboard, monitor display, and fan with heat-sink. I want to say it's either the CPU or possibly memory, but I'm not sure. If you want a list of specs, let me know (and how to get it, if you don't mind...I don't do this too often), and I'll post them.
Thank you very much for all your help, everyone.
Anyway, I'm having an issue with my computer, and I can't seem to figure out what's wrong with it. What will happen is that I'll watch a video (either on Twitch.tv, YouTube, or even Amazon.com) on Google Chrome and everything will be fine. However, after anywhere from 45 minutes to about 2 hours, my CPU usage will spike to 100% (or near 100%) and my computer will lag severely, even after I close the video and web-browser. The only thing that seems to fix this lag is restarting the computer itself via a soft or hard restart.
Things I've done to try to fix this:
-Watched Videos in Firefox (still lagged)
-Uninstalled and re-installed Google Chrome (no effect)
-Disabled built-in Adobe Flash and installed Stand-Alone Flash (no effect)
-Ran AntiX on external hard drive (still had lag)
-Disabled hardware acceleration (No effect)
I strongly believe it is a hardware issue, although I've ran a diagnostic check and nothing was detected, minus an error code saying the Optical Drive couldn't be read. The thing is, my CD-DVD drive is still able to read and write CDs, so perhaps that's relevant. Probably not.
The computer I have is a Dell Inspiron 1564, which I've owned since May of 2010. I have changed out the hard drive and motherboard once, as well as the built-in keyboard, monitor display, and fan with heat-sink. I want to say it's either the CPU or possibly memory, but I'm not sure. If you want a list of specs, let me know (and how to get it, if you don't mind...I don't do this too often), and I'll post them.
Thank you very much for all your help, everyone.