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  2. Why is my computer so slow? - AOL

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    CPU Issues: If your computer's CPU (Central Processing Unit) is overheating, damaged or outdated, it may struggle to handle tasks efficiently, leading to slow performance.

  3. Failure of electronic components - Wikipedia

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    In semiconductor devices, problems in the device package may cause failures due to contamination, mechanical stress of the device, or open or short circuits. Failures most commonly occur near the beginning and near the ending of the lifetime of the parts, resulting in the bathtub curve graph of failure rates.

  4. Does your Windows 11 PC keep restarting? Let's fix that ... - AOL

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    Select Recovery. Choose Open System Restore. Click Next. Now you will click on your hard drive and select finish.Your computer will automatically restart. An overheating laptop or desktop will try ...

  5. The ultimate guide to computer health: How to ensure ... - AOL

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    Manage CPU and RAM usage: Managing CPU and RAM usage helps in identifying resource-heavy applications to ensure smoother and faster operation. Frequently asked questions (FAQs) about computer ...

  6. Computer cooling - Wikipedia

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    A finned air cooled heatsink with fan clipped onto a CPU, with a smaller passive heatsink without fan in the background A 3-fan heatsink mounted on a video card to maximize cooling efficiency of the GPU and surrounding components Commodore 128DCR computer's switch-mode power supply, with a user-installed 60 mm cooling fan. Vertical aluminium ...

  7. Machine-check exception - Wikipedia

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    Machine checks are a hardware problem, not a software problem. They are often the result of overclocking or overheating. In some cases, the CPU will shut itself off once passing a thermal limit to avoid permanent damage. But they can also be caused by bus errors introduced by other failing components, like memory or I/O devices.

  8. Processor power dissipation - Wikipedia

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    When the CPU uses power management features to reduce energy use, other components, such as the motherboard and chipset, take up a larger proportion of the computer's energy. In applications where the computer is often heavily loaded, such as scientific computing, performance per watt (how much computing the CPU does per unit of energy) becomes ...

  9. Halt and Catch Fire (computing) - Wikipedia

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    A processor, upon encountering the instruction, would start switching bus lines very fast, potentially leading to overheating. [5] [6] In a computer's assembly language, mnemonics are used that are directly equivalent to machine code instructions. The mnemonics are frequently three letters long, such as ADD, CMP (to compare two numbers), and ...