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    x205-sli1 vista crawling - eating all my ram

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by nendren, Jan 13, 2008.

  1. nendren

    nendren Notebook Enthusiast

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    I'm not sure where to post this, so I posted one in Toshiba and here.

    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?
     
    nendren, Jan 13, 2008
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  2. |SONY|

    |SONY| Notebook Evangelist

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    ditch vista.
     
    |SONY|, Jan 13, 2008
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  3. Lithus

    Lithus NBR Janitor

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    Remove bloatware, manage startup items. Vista reserves RAM when not in use, and will release it if needed.
     
    Lithus, Jan 13, 2008
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  4. nendren

    nendren Notebook Enthusiast

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    @ |Sony|: I want to use XP, but I can't find what sata drivers I need for my x205-sli1.
     
    nendren, Jan 13, 2008
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  5. Kdawgca

    Kdawgca rotaredoM repudrepuS RBN

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    Please do not cross post(posting the same thing in multiple forums).

    Thread closed. Continue discussion here in your other thread
     
    Kdawgca, Jan 13, 2008
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