x205-sli1 vista crawling - eating all my ram

Now I have a new problem, when I tried booting up my laptop last night Vista took around 20 minutes to load and every time I try to use Vista it takes about the same time. Now I opened up Task Manager and it said that Vista is using 1.95 - 1.99 gb of ram and that's with no applications running and just a few processes (since most take forever to load and I'm not patient enough to have them all load)... nothing looks out of the ordinary so I'm not sure what it is... I ran memory test thinking that maybe it was a memory error, but nothing showed up bad...

Once I did let it load and it was running okay I let Kapersky run and it didn't find any viruses. I also looked at the problem report tool and it said that vsmon hanged and true vector stopped working. Then when I tried starting Zone Alarm it wouldn't load.

I've had some problems before where applications would stop responding (mostly firefox) or hang for a couple of seconds. I'm wondering if I have a bad piece of hardware somewhere.

I'm going to take it over to my brother's later and see if he can fix it... I might just format my hard drives and go to XP and see if that takes care of the problem... or at least do a system recovery using the recovery disk.

I'm just wondering if anyone else has had this problem and if it's something fixable or if I have to send my laptop in to get it fixed?

 

Do a clean install of Vista, and the problem should be resolved. Also, did you remove the bloatware from the computer when you first bought it? If not, you should do so immediately.

 

Okay, I'll do that. I'd rather just go to XP Pro, but I can't find out what sata drivers I need for my x205-sli1 hard drives.

 

First clean off the bloatware though...and make sure you back up all data before a clean install.

 

Is there an easy way to clean it? I don't know what I should keep or what I should delete... I'm deleting McAfee/google stuff for sure... other than that I really have no clue.

 

Wow I had that same problem with Zone alarm about 1.5 yrs ago. Its a virus I forget all the details, but there was a flaw in ZAlarm and one problem was the vector being disabled, Zone Alarm is junk. Recover your computer and use a better antivirus, try NOD32.

 

Okay, I'll try NOD32 then. Thanks.

 

My SLi3 had performance problems with McAfee A/V in games, so I uninstalled it. Currently, I am using Windows Live OneCare and performance is greatly improved.

 

Oh dear! You have mcfeces - that's the first thing to remove before all other bloatware!

 

Try AVG for a free antivirus. If you downgrade to XP you won’t be able to run games in DX10, Crysis runs worlds better (faster) in DX10 mode, for instance. …I have an X205-SLI1 btw. The ability to run DX10 is the main reason to have NVIDIA 8M series cards, otherwise their not much (if any) faster than upper end 7000 series cards.

 

Really, you're getting "worlds" better performance with DX10 versus running in DX9 mode? I always got better performance in Crysis with DX9, but maybe the patch changed things noticeably? Same with World in Conflict, running DX10 hurt performance fairly significantly versus DX9. Curious if this has changed recently, as I've since downgraded to XP Pro SP2.... Vista wasn't so much a problem performance wise (can't really tell much difference verse a good tweaked Vista install), and I do miss the new features, but the lack of compatibility killed me, couldn't run a lot of my slightly older software and games, and that was unnacceptable.