I have a Dell Inspiron 8600. I am running Sims 2( yes I know, huge file. Have never had a problem until about a week ago when i installed a new expansion. Very laggy, horrible. I cleaned out my drve, ran my spyware, defragged, disk clean up. I cleared out about 6 gigs of memory. Now the game runs great until the fan turns on. As soon as the fan comes on its lag central. IF I close , Let it cool and let the fan turn off, reload its good again until the fan hits. Any ideas????
2007-09-30 12:47:48 · 6 answers · asked by Laura P 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Laptops & Notebooks
More info, i did uninstall the expansion. If i remove my fan, is my computer going to fry?
2007-09-30 13:09:11 · update #1
It looks like your processor fan is turning on late. The processor is already hot and has activated throttling mode (to reduce the heat) before it turns on. Throttling down to a lower speed/lower voltage prevents damage to an overheating processor. Better have your laptop checked by the experts.
If you remove the fan, the safety feature kicks in - AUTOSHUTDOWN as soon as boot process detects NO fan. PC won't fry.
2007-10-03 19:02:06 · answer #1 · answered by Karz 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually I think you have it backwards. The CPU fan comes on (actually just speeds up) when the CPU is under heavy load. A heavily loaded CPU will cause your computer to be very "laggy". The new expansion almost certainly has some very CPU intensive code that the original game did not have.
So, I guess to rephrase your problem I would say that the game runs great until the CPU gets heavily loaded. Then the game gets laggy and the fan speeds up.
Bert
2007-09-30 13:00:33 · answer #2 · answered by Bert C 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I would say that the fan is using TOO MUCH of your computers electric, therefore taking away the electric away from the important part like the CPU and motherboard, so get a new fan, hope this helps (:
2007-09-30 12:52:23 · answer #3 · answered by thatoneguyyep101 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I would bet my life to say that the fan is using way to much electricity that is aviable with your current power supply. You can get a new fan that uses the extra amount of electricity available you can take it out or you can just get another power supply . Removing the fan if not needed is probably youu best choice.
2007-09-30 12:56:04 · answer #4 · answered by kevindiking67@verizon.net 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You need more ram in MHO. The fan comes on because the chips in your computer are over heating and calling for more air to cool them and protect the motherboard.
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2017-01-02 20:39:57 · answer #6 · answered by kegerries 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋