Laptop running slow - noisy fan? have posted screenshots

sunni

My laptop is running slow and fan seems very noisy. Like a whirring noise which gets nosier and it comes and goes.

Laptop is a Toshiba Satellite C660-108

Not sure what to do and thought I'd post these screenshots

bsod

close firefox
stop watching flash video and loading ads
enable power saver profile
reinstall windows7
install more ram

esuhl

Maybe open it up and clear out any dust.

If there's a lot of dust inside, the laptop will start to overheat, possibly causing it to reduce processing power to prevent damage.

But it definitely looks like you need more RAM. Only 3GB with shared video...?

Fightsback

What have you running in Firefox ? It could be a memory leak, does the RAM used by Firefox keep going up if you just leave it ?

If that is the case, disable all addons and extensions in FF and see what happens.

sunni

bsod wrote: »

close firefox
stop watching flash video
enable power saving profile
install more ram
reinstall windows7

Am waiting on new hard drive to arrive. I'm sure I can't reinstall Windows 7 without backing up photos etc first?

bsod

depends what you have laying around the house, different partition, phone, games console/pvr, camera, mp3 player, flash drive, sd card, dvdr, cdr, cloud.

if you are buying the ssd, there's little point asking the question.

sunni

Fightsback wrote: »

What have you running in Firefox ? It could be a memory leak, does the RAM used by Firefox keep going up if you just leave it ?

If that is the case, disable all addons and extensions in FF and see what happens.

This non-technie not sure what you mean.

sunni

bsod wrote: »

depends what you have laying around the house, different partition, phone, games console/pvr, camera, mp3 player, flash drive, sd card, dvdr, cdr, cloud.

Am waiting on hard drive in post. Was just wondering if there was anything I could have done in meantime as its very noisy. I don't have Windows 7 disks.