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    7510GX problem

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by trakiec, Feb 24, 2006.

  1. trakiec

    trakiec Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hey guys,
    I have a gateway 7510GX and for the past several days I've been experiencing some problems. The laptop has become obviosly slower, the time is takes windows to start has almost tripled, even my mouse pointer freezes for a second or two from time to time. I've run Ad-aware, Spybot SD, I have Zone Alarm. I haven't installed any new programs. Could be overheating problems with the graphics card or the cpu?
     
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    its not the graphics card unless theres weird textures/colors/pixels on the screen and this still shouldnt affect performance. Secondly, ctrl+alt+delete and go to task manager. Take a screenshot of this with the prtsc (print screen) at the top of your keyboard, go to paint and hit edit paste, and crop out the task manager processes window (in case you didnt kno how to do it). I want to see what processes you have running as well as their cpu useage.
     
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    the mobile athlon can take a tremendous heat range. what power management are you using? put it on portable/laptop to enable powernow and produce the least amount of heat until necessary
     
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    here are the processes
     

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    run a hijack this, and post a log
     
    Kadahaf, Feb 24, 2006
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    you are using a ton of resources.. but i wonder which of those is the culprit. go to start, run, and type "msconfig". Go to startup and deselect everything and restart. XP needs nothing to boot, and necessary processes will turn themselves on. try this. When the system restarts select the botton on the box that comes up and hit OK or whatever and see how it runs. Computers slow down because we put a lto of crap on them.
     
    Uscooper, Feb 25, 2006
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    I tried this but it didn't work. Even when I deselected all the processes it was still really slow. Could it be the HDD? Oh, and that's the log from hijack this:
     

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    Uninstall Zone Alarm. That'll kill the vsmon.exe process that's taking up 35MB almost. You don't need Zone Alarm...use MS's Windows Firewall instead. Much less demanding and actually quite effective.

    See if that helps at all.
     
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    Well, I reinstalled Windows and everything is fine now. I guess I should have done this at first place. Anyway, 10x for all the replies.
     
    trakiec, Feb 27, 2006
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