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    Vista Score & Activation

    Discussion in 'HP' started by RPDRamy, Jun 11, 2007.

  1. RPDRamy

    RPDRamy Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hello ...

    My windows vista index base score is very low ... it is 2.2 :confused: ... my laptop is dv6236us ... a friend of mine owns the same harware components as mine and her index base score is 3.1 but she owns dv2000 ... so why is that?

    My hardware compenents are :
    Intel core duo @ 1.73 GHz , 2MB cache size
    1 GB Ram
    120 GB HD space
    Intel 945GM/GU express chipset family , 256 shared RAM


    My windows vista activation period expires today ... is it really true what is said in the help and support that windows won't work ?? I have tried many times to reenter the product key that came with the laptop ... always say that this is an invalid product key ... i have been told that the recovery disks will solve this problem... but unluckly i don't have em for the moment... I have already ordered em ...

    Thank you.
     

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    Donsell Notebook Evangelist NBR Reviewer

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    You can't expect a good WEI score with an older integrated GPU. Your friend's maybe higher if she doesn't have the integrated GPU, which was an option with the dv2000.

    Yes, you can expect Windows to only allow very basic service after your activation period expires.
     
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    weiser701 Notebook Consultant

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    the GPU is always the bottleneck for the Core Duo Pavilions in regards to WEI. even with dedicated GPU's since the ones offered are kind of sub-par anyway. i wouldn't expect much out of the older integrated GMA's. my X3100 gives me a 3.4 and 3.7 in the graphics department. that's adequate, imo, since i prefer battery life over gaming and my computing tasks aren't very demanding of my CPU either.
     
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  4. f15hp

    f15hp Notebook Consultant

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    Are you running on the 256mb of shared ram? because I know some times the computer runs in a lower depending on the gpu it can have default of 64mb or 128mb and you have to manualy set it up to 256mb through the bios.
     
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    RPDRamy Notebook Enthusiast

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    Thank you all for your answers... :)


    Well In the BIOS it tells that the minimum vga ram is 8 MB and the maximum is 128MB ... in the Graphics properties while using windows ... it tells that the maximum is 224 MB ... i only found 256 MB once when i first used my laptop... never found it since.... and HP product information webpage tells 256 MB ...
     
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    f15hp Notebook Consultant

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    yeah, I just remembered that when I got mine, in windows it say 256mb and in the bios it say 128mb. But some of the guys frome the forum told me that when you add more tham 1gb ram it goes up to 256mb. It mean that the computer is capable of using 256mb but it need to have more than 1gb of memory ram.
     
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