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| Thread ID: 80880 | 2007-07-08 01:02:00 | Dell and Vista | joholdaway (12527) | Press F1 |
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| 566889 | 2007-07-08 09:54:00 | Running Vista with less than 1GB of RAM is alway going to create issues . Whilst it is possible to run Vista with less memory, I would think to get a decent amount of performance from the system one would install 1GB of memory at the very least to make things run a little smoother . Actually it ran perfectly fine with 512mb . . . I was surprised myself, I thought it would keel over when I switched the infamous aero effects on . In fact I turned on ALL the bling I could find and no problems . Had F/fox, t/bird, OO and P/shop all going at the same time . If anything I would say the speed of the HD had more to do with things . I dropped another 1gig in and saw very little difference . In case you're wondering my 'experience' score was a very modest 2 . 0 . I assume that if you had the mythical 8 . 0 it would open the wine for you and pour it as well :thumbs: If you naysayers don't believe me- go out and buy your own cheap lappy and see for yourselves . :D |
Shortcircuit (1666) | ||
| 566890 | 2007-07-08 15:33:00 | xp ? Or 64MB. I've seen it done, works fine. yeh right...........like a three legged dog with a very large dose of valium ! |
drcspy (146) | ||
| 566891 | 2007-07-09 01:09:00 | I'm with Cyabro re Nortons . Heave it and replace with less hungry ones . Proprietary systems also come loaded with heaps of crap that want to load up at startup and, usually, want to dial home as well . This can nobble any system but with 512MB of RAM you especially don't need them . Usually I can disable 10-12 startups in any system I work on - makes a difference! The trick is knowing which ones to heave, of course! If in doubt, google the program name to see what it is . msconfig is good for checking what is running and allows you to uncheck stuff . This way you can probably find what is stopping the shutdown . Good luck . |
linw (53) | ||
| 566892 | 2007-07-09 03:59:00 | Vista works fine with 512MB of ram. Mine is only using 500MB most of the time anyway. However with the price of ram the way it is why would anyone have a machine with oly 512MB. Well, you all must have the patience of GOD, because I have had to suffer Vista Basic on a C2D with just 512Mb ram and just about threw the damn thing out the window. Enter an extra 1Gb and it is a different machine all together. Checking the task manager for memory showed 43% on the total 1.5Gb used, therefore when only 512Mb of ram, the pc was swapping to the hard drive and is therefore deemed underspec'd. |
SolMiester (139) | ||
| 566893 | 2007-07-09 04:00:00 | Actually it ran perfectly fine with 512mb . . . I was surprised myself, I thought it would keel over when I switched the infamous aero effects on . In fact I turned on ALL the bling I could find and no problems . Had F/fox, t/bird, OO and P/shop all going at the same time . If anything I would say the speed of the HD had more to do with things . I dropped another 1gig in and saw very little difference . In case you're wondering my 'experience' score was a very modest 2 . 0 . I assume that if you had the mythical 8 . 0 it would open the wine for you and pour it as well :thumbs: If you naysayers don't believe me- go out and buy your own cheap lappy and see for yourselves . :D I'm calling you out - Read above post . . |
SolMiester (139) | ||
| 566894 | 2007-07-09 04:17:00 | If it is not shutting down try giving more time or check what processes are running before shut down, it is possible that it is still trying to shut stuff down before turning off. It being slow is the lack of RAM. Minimum requirement for vista is 512kb and Dell being Dell will put in minimum of anything. Microsoft minimum is rarely enough unless your just going to run notepad and play their card games. Go back to them and add some more. 1Gb minimum or in this day and age probably more depending on what else your trying to run. |
Bantu (52) | ||
| 566895 | 2007-07-09 04:23:00 | If it is not shutting down try giving more time or check what processes are running before shut down, it is possible that it is still trying to shut stuff down before turning off . I agree with that . How long are you actually waiting for before assuming it has not shut down? Sometimes my PC takes a while to close down depending on what has been running as it needs time to finish saving things to the hard drive and closing the apps down properly . And like the others say, more RAM would make a bit of a difference . |
FoxyMX (5) | ||
| 566896 | 2007-07-09 05:17:00 | I'm calling you out - Read above post.. You can call me anything you like, I don't give a stuff. I actually bought the extra gig of ram same time as the comp... fired it up and thought to myself- 'what a waste of money' on a stick of ram. This was only a few weeks ago and alzheimers hasn't quite kicked in yet. Yours ran like a dog, mine ran fine- end of story :badpc: |
Shortcircuit (1666) | ||
| 566897 | 2007-07-09 05:39:00 | 512 MB RAM here allocated to XP Pro when it is running otherwise I have 1GB RAM for OS X 10.4 and it runs fine but 2GB would be nice when I have 4 or 5 apps up and running | winmacguy (3367) | ||
| 566898 | 2007-07-09 05:54:00 | You can call me anything you like, I don't give a stuff. I actually bought the extra gig of ram same time as the comp... fired it up and thought to myself- 'what a waste of money' on a stick of ram. This was only a few weeks ago and alzheimers hasn't quite kicked in yet. Yours ran like a dog, mine ran fine- end of story :badpc: Okay then, take out the 1gb stick, check the memory % used, replace the 1gb stick, $50 says when you check the memory % used, it will now include part of the new 1gb stick. Therefore the system was short memory and underspec'd. So, you are talking out of a hole in your a** |
SolMiester (139) | ||
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