I was just wondering what the benefits of over clock is. Iam runing a amd 2.6 quad core the system tells me i can take it to 3.2 my cpu temp is between 40 and 42 at idle it can go up to between 54 and 58 at load
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I installed Vista recently and now, when I've got all updates and I've installed few programs into Windows like Visual Studio, Mobile Device Center, some SDKs etc, every time the system is idle the CPU load is 50%, not exactly, but about 50%.
So I've tried to determine which process makes this CPU load. After Alt Ctrl Delete and Task Manager I haven't got to know anything. I've installed Process Explorer from Sysinternals. He told me process "System" makes this high load. I've tried to "kill" process "System". Yes, load felt down. But this isn't solution because after reboot it's the same.
I've read all the limitations and the use of the /PAE and /NOEXECUTE switches and all that stuff. I've just never had so much memory on a system before. Can't wait to finish it. I would've went Phenom but I bought the motherboard before it was available. Plus I want to run SLI not Crossover on AMD silicon.
My new system has 4 Gb of Corsair DDR2 800 installed on a Gigabyte GA-M59SLI -S5 motherboard and an X2 6400+. I am going to run XP 32 bitfor gaming and Vista Ultimate for everything else. I have 2 questions:
1. Diminished returns or not. Will 4Gb of ram benchmark better than 2Gb on a 32 bit system?
2. What are the benefits of vista x64 over the 32 bit version?
I have switched between Vista Ultimate x64 and x32 on numerous occassions and for the life of me am unable to distinguish or realise any improvement in performance when I use x64.
In fact, if anything, my computer seems to run faster with x32 and has the same Windows Experience Index Base Score of 5.5 for both versions of Ultimate.
Yes, I understand x64 utilises all of my 4,096MB of memory compared to 3,072MB with x32 (it says 1,024MB appropriated in Settings whatever that means?), but I just don't experience any noticeable difference in performance.
So having said all that, what are the benefits of me running Vista Ultimate x64 over Vista Ultimate x32, if any?
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1)what are the benefits of mapped drive and sharing folders in a home network?
2)which folder cannot be shared? can you think of reason why an operating system might not allow certain types of folders to be shared ?
3)Amapped drive provides apointer to a network resourse,but mapped drive letters are said to be locally signification only.what do you think is meant by locally significant ?
I have just downloaded speedfan 4.37 and done a test. My GPU is running at 75C!! I have a Nvidia Geforce 7300SE. I also have just a standard CPU fan. I have a thermal take case fan on order aswell. How else can i cool my GPU?
View 9 Replies View RelatedAt idle, I have 50% cpu usage at times. It seems to be msiexec.exe. I have absolutely no idea why. Is this a normal Vista behaviour? Second, at startup I have 67 processes running, then it jumps to 72, then back down to 67. I had this amount on my XP pro machine, but had probably over 60 different programs installed, as it was a shared machine with CAD programs, graphic design software, etc. Now I only have vista, adobe cs3, blackberry, and office... And for my final question, Why does eSata not able to "hot-swap"? Is this normal as well (sorry, I've always used firewire for my external drives, but now I'm trying to use eSata)
View 9 Replies View Relatedwhy my harddisc drive is very active and has allways been that.? It is mainly when I don't use the PC and it should be idle - I guess that the search indexer doesn't use so much capacity.
View 9 Replies View Relatedmy computer is running idle and nothing is going on, i am just staring at the screen and it seems like a lot of ram is being used up...and i dont know whats eating it...is 51% a little too high for an idle..if so, can u guys help me point down whats eating it all up?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI have Vista Home premium for 2 years. About a week ago it slowed to apoint where it may take 5 minutes to respond. Task manager Performance shows about 50% CPU usaage but Processes says 98% idle. If I start in safe mode Task Manager is the same but I seem to get a little better response. I use a free version of AVG.This problem seems to show up a lot in Google but each one seems to get resolved a different way. I tried some things others did but it has had no affect. The last time I started there were about 10 SVCHOST
processes. I ended a few but nothing changed.It takes a long time for one to end because the response is so slow.And it gets slower the longer I am up.
Where do I start to get to the bottom of ths?
I am using Vista x64 on my Laptop. The Problem - Vista Automatically logs me off, if i am inactive for 2 minutes (it brings me on logon page - and asks me to enter password) I have checked -
- Control Panel
- Screensaver settings
- Power Settings
- Searched on google
But could not find anything there. Can someone tell me, how can we set auto log off idle time in Vista :o ? Enable or disable this function?
explorer.exe is using 50% CPU when the computer is idle. This started after being in hibernation for about 6 hours. I can log in, but have no use of the task bar. I can click on a program icon on my desktop and the program opens with no problem. When I mouse over the taskbar, either nothing happens or my cursor changes into an hourglass. I cannot use the Windows key on my keyboard either. If I use Task Manager to stop explorer.exe and then restart explorer.exe - the taskbar works normally for a while, but explorer.exe is still using at least 50% CPU time when the computer is idle............
View 7 Replies View RelatedMy Acer laptop runs at 125 degrees F Idle, and it runs at about 160 F - 180 F when I play a game or do intense work. I was wondering how I can decrease the heat and keep my laptop cool. I've tried Speed Fan with no luck, and I haven't found any Acer Software to help me out. The computer it hot to the touch, and the temperature monitor is Speed Fan. I've even tried blowing out the dust in the case, and it doesn't fix it. I once opened up the bottom of my laptop, and saw lots of dust and blew it out. Most came out but some was left behind.
View 7 Replies View RelatedFrom time to time my system (Vista64) shuts down - when IDLE - for no reason. WIndows restarts and says: Windows recovered for an unexpected shutdown... error report send. How to debug? Note that the system is idle; only background processes are running.
What I've done sofar:
- Ran extended memory test: no problem
- Disabled power saving settings (as I suspected a problem going into hibernate/sleep). No effect.
- Disabled all "user based processes" as Picasa, Google indexing, CPU-temp watcher etc..
- Removed all USB sticks (no readyboost anymore)
I leave the system idle and 10minutes to 2hours later; bang; shutdown Note also that the system never chrashed when I'm actually working. So, not a severe issue but I feel intellectually challenged to get the thing under control.
This laptop is fairly new and both when I'm using it, and when it's idle at night, it will just restart for no reason. It's happening more and more, and no error code comes up.
View 5 Replies View Relatedeverytime i log on to my PC (vista) the monitor will stay on for about 5 - 10 secs then go idle, but not stand by or shut down. i have to press the monitor power button frequently to try and get it to fire up,eventually(after a few re-boots) it will stay on,the OS is still working in the background but no screen.
View 5 Replies View RelatedWhen my Vista Home Premium-SP1, is idle for awhile, the computer freezes. the screen is a grayish color and the mouse circle just keeps twirling. I have to manually re-boot. Everything is fine until I leave and come back...and it is frozen again. I cannot ctrl-alt-delete either. When I went to do a system restore, I saw that all my restore points were gone. How could this have happened? I thought maybe a windows update could be the source so I uninstalled the many updates (approx. 25). the next morning, I saw they had all returned even though I have it set not to download automatically.
View 7 Replies View RelatedI have noticed that my hard drive is busy doing something even while the computer is idle. I can't figure out what it is. I have turned off indexing, Windows Defender, and my system doesn't come with shadowing. (Windows Home Premium). I don't have any visible background programs running, (no antivirus programs, etc). The system restore is scheduled to happen daily, not all day long every day. Screen savers are turned off. Powering down is turned off. The computer is not connected to the internet. So what the heck is the computer doing when it's left idle? Why is it still grinding away computing something?
View 4 Replies View RelatedMy new system was running at idle temps of 46c and under load (2 games and ventrillo running) it was sitting at around 61c @3.1Ghz. Now tempted to go a bit further to see how it will perform. I wanted to get the Thermalright Ultra 120 Extreeme but found it difficult to locate from local supplies but with more reading i found that a lot of people also had good reviews with the Zalman 9700 LED HSF setup so i was able to get that and man what a difference it made. I now run my system @3.5Ghz easy with idle temps at 38c and under load at 50c thats a damn vantastic difference it has made. extra rep points from me but i am not sure how to do that
View 9 Replies View RelatedI want to know how I can prevent my computer from going back to the log on page after it has been idle for a time. I would simply rather touch the laptop pad and just be able to pick up from where I left off instead of having to sign in all over again. I use Vista Ultimate. I have tried going to Personalization and the Screensaver page and checked to see if the On resume, display logon screen has been unchecked and it has been all along apparently.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI calculated that to migrate to Vista or Windows 7 will cost close to =A32000. not including my time - It will take around 100 hours. This is because many of my existing software / tools / utilities does not work on Vista and the vendors expect me to buy a new license because it is a "new product" even though it does exactly what it did before - just on a different OS. Even the products that do work have problems and glitches that have to be worked around. All this takes time MY VALUABLE time. In other words I am suffering because Microsoft want money. In the past some versions of windows were worth migrating to Windows 2000 and Windows XP were great
But most of the improvements to Vista / Windows 7 are mostly transparent to normal users - even monster power users like me. I believe Microsoft have a serious attitude problem. just wait until they take full advantage of TPM to screw even more money out of us. If I am wrong please point out a real tangible benefit that Vista or Windows 7 brings to a large percentage of users or to me. I also I can no longer buy a laptop because they only come with Vista GPU drivers (some come with buggy unsupported XP GPU drivers - great)
I use my laptop to play an MMoRPG Game and I noticed it runs extremely slower than a few months back. I also noticed the System Idle Process is running and using 90% of the cpu. Is there anything I can do to speed up my computer or to stop the System Idle Process from using up all the CPU?
View 9 Replies View RelatedPROBLEM: I have an XP laptop that I'm using as a file/print server, with two Maxtor external USB drives, and an HP color laser printer. I have a home network to which I've connected several computers (a wireless XP laptop and two Vista desktops, one Ethernet and one wireless). When I first booted up all the computers in the morning, my Ethernet-connected Vista desktop could access the HP printer and the Maxtor external drives. Thereafter, at some time later, I couldn't get to the XP laptop, nor the printer, nor the Maxtor drives. When I would click on the mapped network drive, I would get the "The specified network name is no longer available". If I rebooted, all was well -- for a time. I could never figure out a sequence of events that was causing the problem.
UNTIL... I came across this thread and your tutorial Network Idle Session Time to Automatically Disconnect ... OMG!!! THE SOLUTION. Life has been SO good since I set the autodisconnect to 'never'. Disconnect. Geez. I had no idea there was such a thing as Network Idle Session Time.
Desktop 6 months old and time gone haywire today.Updated it a number of times but keeps going slow>
View 9 Replies View RelatedMy system clock keeps changing, off by 1 hour, if it's really 6:03 it says it's 5:03. I'll change it and then the next time I reboot it may have it correct or it may have it wrong. But eventually I notice that it's back to being off by 1 hour. I am running XP Home edition with all the latest updates.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI just change to Vista x64 and im having some issues with the display image my monitor shows: the text looks out of place, I cannot see the clock, a lot of things missing, cannot use the right mouse button. i add a photo showing the problem:
This always happen when Ive been using the PC for around 1hr or more. If I close the explorer.exe application and run it again (the explorer.exe app) the problem goes away but after a while it backs. I already install the latest drivers for my graphic card, the refresh rate of the monitor its ok... Im running out of ideas and I been looking all day for a solution, you are my last chance
I have an HP laptop using Vista SP-2. Until recently, the power settings worked the way I set them (especially shutting off the display after 15 minutes of idle time). Now, this particular setting doesn't work (the display stays on all the time). I haven't checked the other settings yet. Tried Google but couldn't find anything that applied.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI just got a new HP pavillion dv3 with vista home primium. But every time the computer went to sleep the clock and date stopped. I could not find out why, tried to remove sync with internet but nothing helped. But then we tried to correct the time and date ind bios and now it works Don't know why but it does. So if anyone else have the same problem I think it is worth trying.
View 0 Replies View RelatedI am having issues with my clock. It seems that everytime I close my laptop the clock freezes in time. When it is open it also seems like it loses time. I have to continually update it to get the correct time but if I close my laptop or if my internet drops the signal, it stops working.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI have a laptop with vista on and lately whenever I turn the computer off it resorts to October 2006 wwhen I turn it back on. If I restart the computer it's is ok, it only happens when i turn it off. I think it maybe the mobo battery, but I don't want to open it up if there's an easy remedy.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI was running Atomic Alarm Clock on x86, but that does not seem to work, and I see by a thread in these forums, that Chameleon clock has issues too. So, can anyone suggest a customizable clock, one that can prompt the time servers much more frequently than the built in clock, that does run properly on x64?
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