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[mack the knife]

Ever since I installed vista (32 bit) my PC fan runs full-on whenever I run Firefox. Mind you, this ONLY happens with Firefox. In fact, it often uses up 100% of my CPU. It's sounds like the goddam engine room of a fucking diesel submarine in here.

What. The. Fuuuuuuuck.

[Robot_Teacher]

Is your PC an older XP or 2000 machine? If it's not at least dual CPU 2 gigaherz, then it might be struggling to keep up with all that Vista bloatware. How much RAM do you have? 2 Gigabytes or more works nicely as I'm using 55% of my 2 gig RAM most of the time on my Vista machine.

Be sure to use S&D and Adaware and get updates installed if you do have enough of a computer to run Vista. If the fan is making a lot of clunky noise, it's becoming faulty and you run the risk of over heating which leads to hard disk failure.

Your PC fan very well could be going out and your PC is stepping down the CPU to prevent over heating so it's taking 100% to run anything and then it's slow. Did you also check if your fan, heat sinc, and air breather is clogged full of thick matted dust? They get clumps of thick dust in just a few months. I suck it out with my house vacuum through the air breather vents of my notebook as well as the keyboard, and USB ports. In a desktop, you want to crack open the case every now and then and take a look and know your systems.

If this is only with Firefox; not anything else, then I'd uninstall and reinstall. I use Firefox, but never had this issue. I have had the issues I mention above which are common.

[mack the knife]

It's an HP Celeron D machine, believe it or not. It came bundled with Vista.

Check this out: It came with Vista, so I said screw that and installed XP. When it crashed recently (after a year or more with XP running just fine) the HP guy reinstalled Vista and now suddenly I have all these fan problems. Oh, and did I mention he installed Vista Korean? I could've choked the twaat.

[Robot_Teacher]

You downgraded the OS to get more speed? Yes, your 5 year old tech Celeron CPU was probably the 1st line of computers bundled with Vista back in 2007. Do you still have the original OS disk that came with the machine? Often, it's not called Microsoft Windows, but is just that, it's the system CD. And is a version of Windows with specific hardware drivers to make your machine work like it should. I'd say re-install it and start over. You're non-Korean machine is overworked running a generic Korean version in my guess opinion.

Check out the fan issue though. The Korean Vista might run fine, but you could have your fan malfunctioning. I've seen this happen on computers only 1 year old. Go back to your English Vista if you're like me where you can't understand all that Hangul.

[OneWayTraffic]

Try Vistalizator to change display language.

http://www.froggie.sk/

[bassexpander]

Do you have an HP printer with it?

I won't allow the full HP printer application on the computers here. I loaded the bare drivers and use other programs to get things done. It's horribly written, sucks up the CPU, and causes all kinds of problems for us.

[mack the knife]

[eamo]

Your fan speeds up only when you start up Firefox?

Your Firefox may have been hacked........if it only happens when Firefox is running then it has nothing to do with Vista or XP. Korean or English.....it's to do with Firefox.

Try uninstalling and re-installing Firefox.

[Thunndarr]

Yes, the problem is probably firefox. Firefox has a bug where it maxes out your cpu usage. (this was true in the past anyway.) Either reinstall firefox or use google chrome.

[blackjack]

[OneWayTraffic]

I'm in love with Chrome myself.

[mack the knife]

*UPDATE*

I reinstalled XP and everything's kosher again. Vista was crazy buggy with all sorts of shit, not just Firefox.

[Robot_Teacher]

Cheers. It if works good with your English XP OS, then stick with that for the life of the machine.