SXPS 1340; occasional high kernel times and RAM usage

Before I start, let me state that I have very good hearing; I can hear very high-pitched sounds that most other people can't. And I'm not making stuff up.

So, I've noticed that my laptop occasionally becomes REALLY slow. A glance at the Task Manager reveals that the kernel times eat up around 50% of resources. Unfortunately for me, I've no way of checking what it's PRECISELY doing (after all, it's not some one process that's hogging up all the CPU). When that happens, I can HEAR the system uses RAM extensively; I can hear when either my PC or my laptop do RAM operations. Yes, that's why the first paragraph was important. It's a feint, really-high pitched sound.

So, with all the talk about RAM trouble in the SXPS and the recent BIOS (the problem occurs both with the latest and the previous BIOS), I was wondering if anyone has any thoughts or suggestions on this. Is there any way I can find out what exactly the kernel is doing (and what's going on with the RAM) when that happens?

 

I will recommend you to reinstall the idt driver. Then you might want to upgrade your OS to vista sp2. I got 30% ram usage after upgraded to this. then follow this vista tweak guide to disable some services. http://www.speedyvista.com/services.php See if it helps a bit.

 

I may have been a bit unclear on this.

I didn't mean that the system uses a lot of RAM. What I meant was that it's doing a lot of RAM operations. So I don't think I'd need to shut down services.

I will try the IDT driver suggestion tho.