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Am I hallucinating?

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XorSystem

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I bumped my box really hard when I was taking it to a LAN and since then, I think it's been running a bit slower..

Is it possible for something to run slower if it's not seated right, or is it a situation when something will either run or not?
 
I've always understood it to be either one or the other. Not run / slow / stop.. I dunno though. I could be wrong
 
heatsink jerk = hotter = slower

Thats just one of many possibilities also yes, if something like ram isnt seated right (theoritically) it will be slower connection
 
OH I also forgot the obvious when hard drives are dying they run slower
 
thats all the motivation I needed to reseat every component

thanks for the replies
 
And make sure S.M.A.R.T. is enabled in your BIOS to detect hard drive failure. Personally, I have no proof that it works, but it won't hurt.
 
Originally posted by Keem
heatsink jerk = hotter = slower

Thats just one of many possibilities also yes, if something like ram isnt seated right (theoritically) it will be slower connection
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where do you get your facts?

yes if a heatsink isnt seated right heat wont be transfer aswell which would make whatever run hotter, but not any slower.

just like The_Sub said, it either runs or it doesnt. id have to see some proof otherwise.
 
The only thing that would run slower would be a HDD....because it involves a moving part. You may have bumped a HDD so it's sitting at an angle, and not flat, or vertical. HDDs do not like running unless they are flat or vertical, which can cause one to slow down. If you want prove of this, power up a hard drive out of a case, and while it's transferring a large file, tilt it. And, they could also be dying, in which case they'd slow and slow until their last breathe (spin).
 
I agree, make sure you check out your hard drive. If you bump it real hard while it is on that is bad news for the hd.
 
Originally posted by jwill
where do you get your facts?

yes if a heatsink isnt seated right heat wont be transfer aswell which would make whatever run hotter, but not any slower.

just like The_Sub said, it either runs or it doesnt. id have to see some proof otherwise.
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Hard drives when they start to die go SLOW trust me I speak from experience...

Also most mobos/cpus throttle themselves when heat is building up (assuming this is a HARD bump)
 
Originally posted by djnes
..... You may have bumped a HDD so it's sitting at an angle, and not flat, or vertical. HDDs do not like running unless they are flat or vertical, which can cause one to slow down. If you want prove of this, power up a hard drive out of a case, and while it's transferring a large file, tilt it. And, they could also be dying, in which case they'd slow and slow until their last breathe (spin).
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The HDDs produced today do not have problems if mounted at angles. Having one mounted at an angle is very different than taking one and tilting it while powered and in use. He stated
I bumped my box really hard when I was taking it to a LAN ......
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Which to me means that it wasn't running and therefore shouldn't have effected the drive(s). Now a dying HDD.. Well I am not sure about that. I suppose that the motor that spins the platters could be giving out and slowing down. Thus efecting transfer times and such. We never did get a good deffinition of what "running a bit slower" was.
 
I'm going to go ahead and guess that hardware is not to blame. CPU throttling probably isnt the cause of it because most times, the heatsink is on or its off. And if it's off, then you get throttling and eventual lockups. A bad hard drive is normally first noticed by louder seek noises (mine just started making them last week :( ).

You probably caught some nasty worm or virus over the network at the LAN. I can't believe no one has suggested this yet.
 
running a bit slower
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Basically, what I mean is that I tend to get a lot of lag and I'm bogging down during multiprocessing pretty drastically. I reformatted about a week ago to hopefully rectify this and to no avail, I'm still getting the same sort of 'bogging'

virus check
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I have a virus check running constantly with newest definitions. I also have a firewall preventing anything automatically smashing me... so I've taken precautions....

I reseated everything and there hasn't been any difference. At least I know what it's not....
 
Well then.. Maybe the title of the thread says it all.. You are hallucinating!! :D Maybe you sat next to someone at the LAN that had a computer much faster than yours and now you see your computer as some old 486 sitting next to his?????

TBH I really don't know what to say. You don't have any new memory resident programs eating up your memory do you? Could anyone have messed with your computer at the LAN? Oh wait. You reformated things. So that couldn't be it..... Well I'm out. Anybody want to give it a try..
 
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