M11x Processor replaceable?

you need to see whats eating your cpu in task manager

 

A couple of times when I checked it turned out that system idle was taking like 40+ cpu to run...Also, I think that the defrag deleted my drivers, so I'm gonna try reinstalling them, and start at step one again I'll check what's eating the processor in a few after I fix the drivers. Also, I read some posts on the alienwarearena site, and some people said that something like stealth mode slowed their computer, so I'm gonna try and see if stealth mode is running all the time...

 

Reinstalled latest driver, now it says I don't even have a graphics card and I can't open the nvidia control panel. Things are now worse ;( I really wish my laptop would just work...

EDIT: Currently system is eating from 5 - around 50 cpu, this is not going too well...

EDIT 2: Oh and I forgot to mention that after the defrag I can only go up to about 1024 x 768, probably due to the driver issue I'm now having on top of my original problem.

 

I've lost all hope, I don't know what to do. My screen is all messed up and I can't open any games. Says I don't have a Nvidia GPU yet I have the driver installed. AVG really messed up my laptop and I regret ever using it. I guess I have no choice but to wipe my entire system, wasting even more time. Does anyone know what's wrong, or am I the first one to ever have this problem? I just can't believe how a simple disk defrag would mess up everything.

 

Reinstall the video drivers. Make sure you have checked the Clean Install box.

 

To bad you couldnt replace it

 

Did this, didn't work. This makes me so mad, paying so much money and having these problems :/

EDIT: Did a system restore to earlier today, think it fixed the driver problem. Now I'm back to problem one -_-

 

Well I guess I'm out of options. It's probably a hardware issue and I guess I'll send it in once I'm back at home in another week. I bought a warranty so hopefully I can simply receive a new laptop if it is a hardware problem. Oh well :/

 

Use your USB drive to restore your laptop to factory default? I always do that when my laptop has long boot up time/ high idle CPU usage lol

 

its not the laptops fault... you need to use a GOOD registry cleaner.. use CCleaner. and you need to use driver cleaner to uninstall the nvidia drivers, then use the clean install option when installing new drivers... and the system idle process is SUPPOSED to show usage... say nothing is using your cpu, it will show 99-100 percent by the system idle process.. and if something wants to use the cpu it will change...

you need turn off ALL windows start up items from MSCONFIG, search that in the start menu. and disable your antivirus when gaming... its simple.. its NOT the computer that has something wrong with it. its how you have everything configured.

you need to see whats eating your resources, also download malwarebytes and scan for viruses, its the best free virus scanner out there

 

Already checked for malware, disabled startup programs, tried turning off anti virus, didn't help. Also I already scanned registry but didn't improve performance too much. I uninstlalled the old drivers and chose clean install. Don't think the problem is the graphics drivers because it only starts lagging every few moments in most games. The newer games lag almost all of the time though. Is Mcafee known to eat alot of resources? I can't find a way to completely disable it, do I just end the process???

 

Mcafee sucks big time.. eats a lot of sources. ALOT. uninstall it. infact you dont even need an antivirus if you know what your doing. i dont even use one. there more trouble then there worth. the active scanners suck, and eat resources. try without for awhile, and if you want one i highly recommend threatfire or nod32.

 

Yah I've heard this alot, but just incase, would stopping the process with task manager actually "close" Mcafee? I don't think it has a built in option to exit.

 

prevent it from starting up when your m11x starts? from msconfig?
and it might, or it might not. whats taking the most cpu cycles in task manager?

 

Taking some screenshots of my task manager/resource monitor, will post in a few. Hopefully this will help you help me

EDIT: The photos are in a photobucket album, all labeled. Link here: http://s1090.photobucket.com/albums/i368/BrodyZera/

EDIT 2: I also have Game Booster 2.2 enabled, but it increases performance by stopping unneeded services.

 

We're doing Mcfee at the moment, but in the next 10 posts or so we should start to look at AlienFX and etc.

Just introducing the idea for when we get up to that stage.

No hurry, just keep posting.

 

good idea haha

 

Well disabled McAfee Security Center on startup, going to test performance again. Btw there's some other McAfee services in my msconfig like site advisor/MC Shield. Should I end those as well? Btw I already took a quick look through AlienFusion, all the settings seemed to be normal.

EDIT: wth McAfee just enabled itself....

EDIT2: After taking a look through google, I found that I can't completely disable McAfee...go figure. So if I were to uninstall McAfee, would Windows Defender and Windows Firewall be enough to protect me while I surf the web?

 

you dont need alienfx on all the time, and just uninstall mcafee. also over 100 processes???? holy crap. heres a screenshot of my desktop and task manager to show the difference.


EDIT: you dont even need windows defender or firewall.. iv gone without for olmost 7 months, havent gotten any viruses. just use malwarebytes to scan sometimes.

 

Woh...I thought my amount of processes were normal. I'm not sure on which onces I should delete though :/

 

disable anything you absolutely dont need.. get rid of mcafee. and disable windows processes, and uninstall anything you dont use that leaves left over processes. my m11x is highly optimized.

 

Maybe you should TeamView me Is it normal to have like 10 svhost processes? And I guess I'll stop all windows processes >.<

 

And here I was thinking maybe I should clean up my system because I have 52 processes at idle with no applications open.

And I have Avast,MySQL server, Apache Server, Java ... and the list goes on.

Admittedly, a lot of the processes on your system are just those spun off a parent process i.e Chrome tabs, so that's just normal.
Plus Windows 7 creates numerous svhost.exe processes.
Some times 10+.

If you're into that sort of thing there are applications that allow you to read the processes being run within each svhost.exe and as you'll see some can be disabled, like Windows Defender and etc.

103 processes, very impressive, none the less.

You'll need to 'can' AlienSense if it's still running.

 

yes, svhost processes are normal. and dont disable them all, open up msconfig and open up game booster, and press customize, and from the list of processes in gamebooster to turn off, go threw them in msconfig and disable them. those are the safe ones to turn off.

 

Wouldn't Game Booster automatically disable these? Btw I'm currently uninstalling McAfee to see if it helps.

 

yeah it will, but yes it would, but disabling them in msconfig will disable them when you log on also, and speed up regular stuff.

 

Oh ok, going to finish uninstalling McAfee then restart and see if there's a change in performance...

 

im sure it will help.

 

89 processes now...seems a bit better so far. Also noticed that when I right click, the menu pops up faster :O Going to test performance in a game now...

 

awesome =P if you can get it down to 50 or less processes it will help a lot.

 

My god...I can run Minecraft on far distance fancy graphics with smooth framerate...although its a small test, it proves that the performance has at least increased...now time to test fallout New Vegas....

 

exactly just needed a bit of optimization.

 

NV ran great on high graphics, was too afraid to try ultra XD Now one more game that had very bad lag: Global Agenda...

 

your welcome haha

 

you still have 50+ processes running???


I'v got mine down to under 37 while idle...

 

Well Global Agenda was still a little laggy, but much better than before. I will clean out my laptop tonight and try to eliminate even more processes. Also this was done while laying in bed, so my laptop is probably pretty hot, even with a cooling pad. Oh and this was without tweaking the graphics, so I'll probably get very good performance after messing around with the graphic settings. Thank you so much for your help To think I spent so much time when it was actually stupid McAfee causing my problems I've have for half a year ;(

 

Does this mean that a GT555m should be able to run Oblivion as well as the card you're talking about, or that the GT555m will be worse? Can Oblivion be maxed on the 555m?

 

oblivion the game? it can be run on much lower specs. the GT335 is not a bad card at all. but the GT555 is faster.

oblivion can run on a 4 year old pc.

 

Yah Oblivions required specs aren't high at all

 

If the M11X's CPU wasn't soldered down and non-replaceable, I would have crammed a better CPU in there.

 

Same, then it would truly be epic

 

I'd still do a fresh re-install with all latest drivers from Dell (not nVidia)

 

dells drivers are old and outdated. if your running in discrete mode, its best to use the official nvidia drivers.

 

Has OP said he wants to get rid of hybrid? I assumed he/she wants to keep the ability to switch.
I mean something is chronically wrong if he can't game as mentioned, I was sure reading thru it was just he hadn't discovered Fn+F6.

 

Dell Nvidia 263.08 is not that out of date and I'm not sure your new found forum friend is up to speed to be able to make valued judgements.

A few posts ago the OP didn't even know what notebook he/she had purchased.

But then again, the AI boys working from Haifa, MIT or Berkely having probably corrected that logic area. So now the program has learnt enough to be able to address more specific areas of expertises. At least we're working at a level beyond the Turing test.