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    zv5000z feez

    Discussion in 'HP' started by vlk, Sep 29, 2004.

  1. vlk

    vlk Notebook Consultant

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    I was wondering if its normal. My zv5000z freezes or lags, almoust every day when I run lots of programs, such as internet-explorer, firefox, windows player, spysubtract, and some other. Is it normal that it freezes because of too many programs? Or it this something wrong with software or hardware?

    Thanks

    zv5000z AMD 64 3000+ 1.8 Ghz 768 DDR SDRAM 15.4" WXGA (1280x800) 30 GB 4200 RPM Hard Drive 64MB NVIDIA(R) GeForce(TM) 4 440 Go
     
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  2. Wiz33

    Wiz33 Notebook Deity

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    Take a look at your system process and see how much memory you are using, if you are above your physical Ram range you may be hitting the swap drive a lot and on a 4200rpm drive that would be real noticable. If not, look and see if some application or process is spiking up during the freezes. On the safe side, you should run a catch for spyware and such also.
     
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  3. brianstretch

    brianstretch Notebook Virtuoso

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    768M RAM should be plenty (I have 1GB), so I'd guess the problem is either the slow HD (I swapped in a 7200RPM drive) or a software issue (most likely a virus/worm infection... actually, if you've got an infection, you've probably got LOTS of them).

    You might be able to get away with shutting down virtual memory. That'd speed things up a bit but you do risk out-of-memory errors. Works for me though.

    I'd bet on a combination of slow HD and WinXP's lame virtual memory management. My zv5000z is nice and snappy even though I generally keep the CPU locked to 1 or 1.4GHz (undervolting with ClockGen).
     
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