Satellite A45 - the CPU usage is high and slow applications

Hi all

I'm trying to debug a hardware problem on my Toshiba Satellite A45. I am running Ubuntu 10.04, but I don't think that it's operating system or related software.

THE PROBLEM: The CPU usage is high and applications slowly to a crawl after using an intensive application of memory for a few minutes, i.e. to watch a video or a game. Basically, anything that could use the screen much. If instead, I work only from a prompt, even when the application could do a lot of work, I do not encounter this problem. After stopping all applications, the CPU usage is always higher than normal (90% idle, should normally be slowed down to about 99%).

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Note: My system has always worked very well and I did not made the installation of the software or changes when it started to happen.
However, the laptop is a 800 miles round trip at the rear of the car in a padded bag.

DEBUG: This doesn't seem to be the RAM that I replaced the RAM and reinstall the RAM, and the problem persists. This doesn't seem to be the hard drive that I can try to run it from a Live CD (without use of HARD drive) and yet everything slows to a crawl.

HELP: I don't know how to debug from here.
I don't have extra pieces of hardware to make swaps.

Any ideas more how to debug this?

Thank you
Grommit

Hello

> I am running Ubuntu 10.04, but I don't think that it's operating system or related software.
It s interesting why you think that this may be software related issue

I think that it is a typical software problem because the RAM and the HARD drive has been verified you have reported this in the message

So what to say maybe some virus or malware likely to obstruct the CPU and the memory usage
Or there is some process in the background that are not properly

I recommend you to reinstall the Windows operating system or another distribution of Linux that runs NO Live CD, but which is installed on the HARD drive
I m sure that s kind of the process that is disabled and crashes somewhere in the background

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