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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST Sudden Slowdown

    I called this morning and hung around on the phone while the engineer tracked down the BIOS. Reflashing solved the problem. Could have been solved two weeks ago if the BIOS was made available on the downloads page like any other sensible tech company does. Control Centre (for windows 11) still...
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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST Sudden Slowdown

    Yes. I’m not a -complete- turnip :)
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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST Sudden Slowdown

    “We promise we’ll get you the BIOS installer by the end of the day”. This was on the 21st.
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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST Sudden Slowdown

    Yes.
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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST Sudden Slowdown

    Sigh. 11 days and still no working laptop, despite the fix being something which any other vendor would have available as a download on their website. Won’t be buying from here again, that’s for sure.
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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST Sudden Slowdown

    Well, here we are, several days later and my request for a copy of the current bios image has come back with “but there isn’t an update available”. I had originally thought I didn’t have time to sit on the phone, but I think tomorrow I’ll do just that as email support is abysmal.
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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST Sudden Slowdown

    Well, I'm just at first line at the moment and have received the "Did you install all the drivers" email. It's a busy time of year, so I'm prepared to cut some slack :) J
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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST Sudden Slowdown

    An update (now that my restore has completed) - activity monitor is indeed showing the CPU clocked at 0.4 GHz. Booting off a Linux live USB confirms this - it's not anything in Windows that's setting it there (although it does boot quickly then just as quickly slow down) but the BIOS. Now I just...
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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST Sudden Slowdown

    It's strange that it ran quite happily for six months or so. Anyhoo - thanks for your input J
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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST Sudden Slowdown

    Reading through various other threads, it appears that I may need a BIOS reflash. Model is a TongFang GM5IDY. I'll see what support come up with.
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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST Sudden Slowdown

    My downloads area doesn't show any software at all for Windows 11. As I mentioned, Control Centre stopped working (pre-Windows 11). When I was on chat with support, they provided a new version - 3.14.2 - but this doesn't solve that particular problem. It still doesn't work. Those are the full...
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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST Sudden Slowdown

    Hi all, [spec at the bottom] So, my Ionico has been running marvellously for the last 18 months or so (Windows 10 for the first year, Windows 11 for the last six months). T'other day, I booted up as normal and everything was running really slowly - i.e. even rendering a drop down menu in a...
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