[Titus]

hello. i have two identical dell inspiron 1150's and one's hd crashed so i got a new hd and reinstalled windows. well now the processor is running slow. Like when i go to system information it says
Intel®
Celeron® CPU 2.6GHZ
311MHZ, 512MB of RAM
this happened to me once before but i cannot remember how to fix it and it wasnt with a dell computer... Anyways the problem is the cpu gets overworked by menial tasks, like opening task manager will get the cpu usage to 100% for like 5min. Let me know if you have any ideas. thanks!

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How do you know the CPU is runnung slow?
2.6Ghz is correct for that laptop model.
311Mhz refers to the speed of the bus, not the CPU.

[pip22]

How do you know the CPU is runnung slow?
2.6Ghz is correct for that laptop model.
311Mhz refers to the speed of the bus, not the CPU.

[Titus]

well i said i have 2 identical computers and the one that i am on now that is running smoothly, says:
Intel®
Celeron® CPU 2.6GHZ
2.6GHZ, 512MB of RAM
and this has happened to me before and after i fixed it the number before ram read what the cpu was supposed to run at

[Facedown98]

Hi. You say they're identical, but what about processes? Do they have the same services starting at boot? Have you tried running any registry repair tools like Disk Defragmenter or CCleaner (for registry, not cleanup)? It's possible that a few registry corruptions are making the system slower.

[Titus]

no, i just installed windows on it yesterday. it is a brand new hd, the cpu is just running slow, i had this problem before and it was something wrong in the bios or with a jumper but laptops dont have jumpers and bios is gay with dells, do you think there is any way to fix it?

[Titus]

hey guys, dont even worry about it anymore, i just reformatted and it is all good now. thnks for all your help!