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    m1530 lots of swapping?

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by Merranza, Mar 3, 2008.

  1. Merranza

    Merranza Notebook Consultant

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    Quick question to people with m1530 (I have a 200G 7.2k rpm), does your hdd swaps a lot in Vista? This is my 2nd m1530 (a replacement) and both were pretty noisy in Vista. I know it's not the hdd being defective since when installing Vista it wasn't swapping that much and actually both hdd had the same behavior. Is there a way to control this a bit? I'm bloatware free with a fresh install, and I'm not the one that overloads my computer with a lot of background running programs. It's not that bad actually but enough that if I'm not listening to any music or there's nothing else happening around me, it forces me to focus my attention on the swapping noise while I'm reading in the same room. Any input/suggestion?
     
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    nizzy1115 Notebook Prophet

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    Let vista do its thing for about a week. or get more ram.
     
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    Merranza Notebook Consultant

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    ScifiMike12 Drinking the good stuff

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    Well if you had XP, and the noises went away.. then it's a OS/software issue.

    But when I had 2GB of ram, I noticed this as well. I sometimes notice with 4GB (~3GB). I usually go do my homework really quickly or make a quick snack. By the time I'm back, the flashing is gone.
     
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  5. Merranza

    Merranza Notebook Consultant

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    I just turned off Indexing, we'll see :|
     
    Merranza, Mar 3, 2008
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