Dell Inspiron 3147 problems.

[Carcarjg]

I'm having performance and heat problems on my dell inspron 3147 laptop. it for some reason has overclocked it self to 2.55ghz when the maximum rated clock speed is 2.16ghz. Its performance has been going down and has been suffering heat problems for over 2 years. I need this laptop to last for 1 more year . I can feel that the end is near for this device and I need some way to put it back to the normal clock speed.(also the bios is locked).

[Taswell]

its turboing to 2.55 on one core the maximum normal speed is 2.16 for the rest of the cores. So your laptop is doing something in the background its a pentium though so really anything could make it hit 100%

[MVPernula]

Check the "Processes" tab to see what's eating your performance.

That CPU is weak balls.

[Carcarjg]

windows is causing it to go to full utilization.

[ProjectBox153]

5 minutes ago, Carcarjg said:

windows is causing it to go to full utilization.

Well you obviously have something running in the background to be using that much RAM. It's not "overclocking" itself, it's turboing to a faster frequency, so obviously something is pushing it hard.

[Carcarjg]

The task name is Windows service: Local Service its taking 95% cpu at all times even at idle.