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    Why is my W7J slow?

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by twisties, Jun 16, 2007.

  1. twisties

    twisties Notebook Enthusiast

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    hey guys i just got my W7J with really nice specs, but for some reason it doesn't as fast as it should be. Here are my specs:

    Core 2 Duo 7200
    Nvidia Go 7400 128 + 256 Turbocache
    1GB 667mhz DDRII RAM
    120GB 5400 Hitachi HDD
    Vista Home Premium

    I just did the 3DMark05 benchmark, with the power cable plugged in and everything, turned off norton, and it gave a score of 1588. However i read the W7J with Core 2 Duo review here at notebookreview.com and the author got nearly 2000 for his score with a slower CPU. I haven't updated any drivers, all i've done is installed programs that i need like MS office and photoshop, as well as moved my essentials such as music and documents over from my desktop. My C: and D: partitions are about 50% full but i don't think this is why its slow?

    Could it be due to vista? possibly incompatability with the nvidia drivers? i've tried to run Call of Duty 2 however its all jerky, even at low graphics settings. Are there any Geforce Go 7400 drivers that i should download and install? maybe some CPU drivers or BIOS settings i should change. My w7J takes about 1 minute to start up and the battery lasts for about 2:15hrs on battery save mode.

    Any suggestions would be helpful. By the way, is this normal? but when idled at startup, it seems vista eats alot of my RAM, it says i only have about 450mb of my 1022mb ram left

    Also: Theres 2 partitions, C: VistaOS and D: DATA. How does the recovery disc work? Will it restore my laptop to "exactly" how i first got it? AKA with the opening welcome screen from Vista. Does anyone know if it would wipe "both" partitions? AKA clear D: DATA partition? (I'm assuming it would restore the operating system partition back to its original state meaning i'll lose all added data, and just have a clean copy of Vista on it along with all the default drivers?) - YES?

    Thanks
    twisties
     
    twisties, Jun 16, 2007
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  2. mujtaba

    mujtaba ZzzZzz Super Moderator

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    Welcome :)
    The thing that matters for 3DMark score is the GPU power.So I think it's driver's fault - the driver on your laptop might be old - and new drivers have performance increase on top of many improvements.

    I really suggest upgrading the drivers now, because I think they will help on power saving too, also turn off any Vista eye candy. Anything that puts pressure on the GPU will lessen the battery life.
    As for the booting time, it's mainly CPU's fault.You might want to check the Dual-Core fix - a sticky in the Sager forum.

    Vista does eat memory, but make sure you have killed all the bloatware too.
    Also, when the free space starts to decrease, usually the Windows starts freeing a bit of memory AFAIK.

    To bring the recovery console, as the manual states, when you turn on the laptop and just after the ASUS logo, press F9.
    This will bring up the recovery console.
    The recovery console has some options, but is no way near advanced as Thinkpad's recovery, You can do recovery to the whole hard-drive - killing all the partitions :eek: - or to recover to the first partition (but it's erase all the data on it/
     
    mujtaba, Jun 16, 2007
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