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    M860tu lagging

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by jmstewart93, Jan 28, 2009.

  1. jmstewart93

    jmstewart93 Notebook Consultant

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    Hey all,

    So I own a sager m860tu notebook that is relatively decked out. It has 4 Gbs ram and 2.5GHz processor, but for some reason it has been going very slowly for the past 2 days or so.

    Things that occur to me:

    I installed windows 7 on a new partition of the drive, but I do not think that that would effect the speed of the other partition.

    It is possible that there are tasks running in the background that I am not aware of.

    Virus?


    I am no expert on this, so I was hoping that someone would have some ideas. I do not think that the laptop should perform this slow considering its age and specs.

    Thanks
     
    jmstewart93, Jan 28, 2009
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    scourge18a Notebook Consultant

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    how big was your partition?
    Did you leave windows enough room to run?
     
    scourge18a, Jan 28, 2009
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  3. jmstewart93

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    I left more than enough room for the vista partition. 265 gigs for he vista partition and 35 for the windows 7.
     
    jmstewart93, Jan 28, 2009
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  4. Heathkidd

    Heathkidd M860TU

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    what GFX card drivers are u using with windows7?.... use 185.20 Works like a charm.

    laptopvideo2go. Just select the latest vista ones on the right... be it 32 or 64 bit dep on your Win7 install even thou they are windows vista drivers they pick up win7 and change the config for it.
     
    Heathkidd, Jan 29, 2009
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    yes ive noticed mine has been a bit slow too, the thing is, there doesnt seem to be any heavy stuff going in the taskmanager.......i might update the bios to the last version too....
     
    Bluemercury, Jan 29, 2009
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    Did you solve this??i formated mine and reinstaled windows xp sp2, might it be the chipset driver? i instaled the alpha intel chipset_9.1.1.1004 version.....dont know if it might be this....
     
    Bluemercury, Jan 29, 2009
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    Are you running in silent mode?
     
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  8. jmstewart93

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    Well something weird happened an hour ago. I installed a video game and restarted my computer. Since I installed it on my Vista partition, I tried to go back onto Vista to play it. Will NOT log back into Vista. At all. No safe mode or anything, even after letting it run the drive checks. I get a very quick flash of a BSOD and then it restarts, giving me a message that windows has run into an unexpected shutdown.
    What I am getting at is that maybe the lappy was running slowly because things were starting to go badly on that drive. Over on this 7 partition it is lightning quick, so at least I will be able to recover my files from here.
    Next question is, is there any way to completely erase or reformat only ONE partition? For instance, can I wipe my C:/ drive without touching the windows 7 part?
     
    jmstewart93, Jan 30, 2009
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    Me? well i didnt remember that.....i just formated and installed a xp sp2 version a few, but it doesnt seem to be as fast as it should i think......too much reading happens....opening stuff sometimes seems to be taking more time than it should......checked the velocty and its on max(2.53 Ghz)......
     
    Bluemercury, Jan 30, 2009
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