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    Turbo Memory OFF = More stable?

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by joer80, Feb 19, 2009.

  1. joer80

    joer80 Notebook Evangelist

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    I have started to notice my t500 freezes up less with my Turbo Memory 2.0 turned off. Has anyone else had this experience?
     
    joer80, Feb 19, 2009
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    sometimes when i use a SD card for readyboost and remove it, i find occasional freezing.
     
    martinmach, Feb 19, 2009
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    Turbo/Readyboost isnt effective. Its a waste of time and money if you have more than 2gb RAM.
     
    flipfire, Feb 19, 2009
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  4. joer80

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    What about Ready Drive though?
     
    joer80, Feb 20, 2009
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    I just noticed about 5 new patches on the lenovo update that address system freezing.. I am turning it back on after the patches are done to see if the problem is gone..
     
    joer80, Feb 20, 2009
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    It's like those memory optimizers, they apparently optimize your ram but they consume ram in order to optimize ram (duh?)
     
    terdefe, Feb 20, 2009
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    Turbo Memory is known to have a very little or no effect at all. why bother with that thing? Just leave it turned off and you'll be good to go. :D
     
    visiom88, Feb 20, 2009
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  8. joer80

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    Rats.. It just happened again today with it off...

    I open my screen and everything is black. The 6, 7, and 8 lights are on, but I cant get the screen to turn on no matter what I press. ie. Keyboard, mouse, power button etc.
     
    joer80, Feb 22, 2009
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    restart os?
     
    hsbsitez, Feb 23, 2009
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  10. nomanland

    nomanland Notebook Consultant

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    It could be clashing with some other thing you have running.
     
    nomanland, Feb 23, 2009
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