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So here's the story. While running windows (bleah, i know) my laptop randomly decided that it wanted to run slowly (really slowly). I did every test imaginable, reformatted it etc but to no avail. So I reinstalled drivers and tried all that lot. In the end I've decided its the hardware, but no-one seems to agree which piece of hardware,

So why post on an ubuntu forum? well I decided (after installing a hard drive i found) I installed ubuntu, I figured it would rule out software. So I figure on an ubuntu forum, hopefully someone might be able to tell me what type of tests to run in ubuntu to make this laptop run right again,

Thanks if anyone decides to help,

Cat