Originally Posted by MasterAndrew18

Hi i have a very general problem and i think its hard to pin point.
Acer Aspire 3100 Laptop
I have Windows Home Basic SP1
2 Gb RAM
harddrives almost empty
AMD Sempron 1.8Ghz

Ok , here is my problem. I just did a system restore back to factory thing to.

Starting about two weeks ago. No matter what i am doing , i can be playing a computer game online, or offline , i can even just be in Photoshop . My computer will run 100 percent fine. then a few minutes after running any program , it will just slow down or chug.
its hard to discribe . But i can even be on firefox and it will just slowdown. Not the internet , but the computer itself.

One example is, ill play couter striker with 100 FPS.
Then it will go down to 5 FPS for about 2 minutes
then it will go back to 100FPS and it will do this repeatedly.

So it runs all the programs fine , then it slows down , then it goes back to normal , like every couple minutes. I have barely any processes running.

If anyone one has any idea what can be wrong, then please let me know.

TIA