I own a Sager NP 8890 (3.2 GHz, 4 hard discs (100+100+80+80 GB), TV tuner, 1 GB RAM etc.) purchased late in October, 2003. So far, the computer functioned normally, but now there is a serious problem. 
The primary disc begins to slow down in writing (not reading!) data after half an hour of work, and if the computer has a heavy enough duty (e.g. video encoding), data writing speed gradually drops to approximately 1 megabyte per second (from approximately 20). Besides, it seems that this slowdown is caused by writing pauses, which is seen from highly altering time remaining shown when performing different tasks. The 2nd, 3rd and 4th hard discs have no problems at all. If I replace the primary disc with new one, the problem remains the same.
By the way, when I replaced heat sink for ordinary dust cleaning, I noticed that fixation substance for a row of brown condensers next to the heat sink was heavily burned and had turned dark brown from yellow; actually most of it has crumbled up. May this possible overheating be the reason for the mentioned problem? If so, what could be overheated — these condensers or something else? What other reasons and solutions could there be? Would really appreciate anyone's ideas......
darius.kaunelis@takas.lt
The primary disc begins to slow down in writing (not reading!) data after half an hour of work, and if the computer has a heavy enough duty (e.g. video encoding), data writing speed gradually drops to approximately 1 megabyte per second (from approximately 20). Besides, it seems that this slowdown is caused by writing pauses, which is seen from highly altering time remaining shown when performing different tasks. The 2nd, 3rd and 4th hard discs have no problems at all. If I replace the primary disc with new one, the problem remains the same.By the way, when I replaced heat sink for ordinary dust cleaning, I noticed that fixation substance for a row of brown condensers next to the heat sink was heavily burned and had turned dark brown from yellow; actually most of it has crumbled up. May this possible overheating be the reason for the mentioned problem? If so, what could be overheated — these condensers or something else? What other reasons and solutions could there be? Would really appreciate anyone's ideas......
darius.kaunelis@takas.lt
