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    Mini 9 Stuttering problem

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by M Kapral, Apr 12, 2009.

  1. M Kapral

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    Hey guys. I got a 4gb Mini 9 with Ubuntu and love the thing to death, but right from the beginning it would always stutter when I was on the internet. It happened a lot more when I was looking at flash things (games, youtube, ect), but even when I was scrolling through a forum it would just stop... and then pick up again but scroll all the way down if I was scrolling (it would catch up).

    So I thought... hmm. Maybe it's the RAM since ojly had 512mb. So I ordered 2gb (which i wanted anyway), but this didn't help at all.

    Then I though, hmm, maybe it's Ubuntu (Ive heard that Adobe has bad Linux support) so I installed XP and honestly I like it more than Ubuntu, but anyway... yeah it's still stuttering, although maybe less Ican't really tell though.

    Is this just something I have to live with? Are all of yours doing this? Or is this a bad SSD or maybe a faulty laptop in general?

    I really want to get this fixed as I LOVE the thing so much and just want to have this fixed.

    Note: This is only happening with a browser open as far as I can tell. I ran Eclipse and was coding for a over 15 hours since I got it and it didn't stutter once when I was doing this. This is both when I am wired at school, using the school's wireless, or at home using our internet (wired and wireless)

    Any help is appreciated :cool:
     
    M Kapral, Apr 12, 2009
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  2. namaiki

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    What kind of scrolling?

    Do you mean like holding the down arrow key or the down arrow button in the browser window, or using the touchpad scroll zone to scroll?
     
    namaiki, Apr 12, 2009
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  3. M Kapral

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    All of the above :p
     
    M Kapral, Apr 12, 2009
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    Does it 'stutter' in XP?
     
    namaiki, Apr 12, 2009
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  5. M Kapral

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    Thought I had that, but I missed it. Added it in.

    Yes, it is still stuttering. it happens when scrolling sometimes. It happens when loading pages sometimes, it happens when I click a link, it happens randomly somethings.
     
    M Kapral, Apr 12, 2009
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  6. The_Moo™

    The_Moo™ Here we go again.....

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    lower your res and tell me if it happens

    I am going on a hunch
     
    The_Moo™, Apr 12, 2009
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  7. M Kapral

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    No dice. Back on its native resolution.
     
    M Kapral, Apr 12, 2009
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  8. The_Moo™

    The_Moo™ Here we go again.....

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    never mind , i had a computer that when i tried to run max res it would stutter because the gpu wasnt strong enough / crappy driver
     
    The_Moo™, Apr 12, 2009
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    I'm pretty sure the Atom processor is probably maxing out and that's why it's stuttering.
     
    namaiki, Apr 13, 2009
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  10. M Kapral

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    Well i figured it out.

    It seems that by switching to FAT format rather than NTFS fixes this problem with the 4gb STEC
     
    M Kapral, Apr 13, 2009
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    Interesting, i never would have guessed.
     
    bobnova, Apr 14, 2009
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  12. The_Moo™

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    how the heck did you figure that out ?
     
    The_Moo™, Apr 14, 2009
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  13. M Kapral

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    Google helped me lol
     
    M Kapral, Apr 14, 2009
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