i know for a fact that Matlab takes up alot of ram and just running vista
does. with just matlab running (run any loop program that runs for about a
minute) and vista what percentage are you at?
I havent installed matlab onto my vista partition yet and im worried to do
so for this very reason.
"Aaron Riggs" <Aaron
Riggs@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Alright folks, after a long wait my new laptop (Gateway) showed up on
> Monday(2 days ago):
>
> Intel centrino core 2 duo T7200 2.0GHz, 667MHz, 4MB L2
> 2 GB ram
> 100 GB hd
> ATI Radeon X1400 128MB graphics (up to 256 HyperMemory)
> Vista Ultimate preinstalled
>
> ...and for as much as this piece cost, I'd rather be running a desktop
> with
> windows 3.x. In the three days I've had it, the fan has run 75-90% of the
> time along with almost constant hard drive noise. Im running around 50%
> memory but only 2-5%CPU even though it runs slow and the fan whines like
> I'm
> at 100%. Twice I have had bootup trouble that used system recovery and
> once
> it just turned off for no reason. Anyways its extremely slow and it feels
> like its getting worse. I have only installed a few programs: Office07,
> MatLab, and AIM so I dont think its a software issue. I would understand
> running into conficts with an XP to Vista upgrade but for an
> out-of-the-box
> (and pricey) system this seems a bit much.
>
> A few specific questions:
> 1. I have 13 instances of svchost.exe running under processes, one of
> which
> is using almost 50k of ram. Is this common with Vista??
>
> 2. Looking in the Event Log, there have been 112 events recorded. Almost
> all are from shutdown or bootup and a few from the desktop manager. Most
> are
> "warnings" but there have been a handful of "error" and "critical" level
> events. Also many of them occured in clusters at the same time. Should
> there be events occuring this frequently?
>
> 3. Events have been logging pretty regularly since Monday (2/19) and
> there
> are also 5 events logged on 2/14 which I assume are from when the machine
> was
> tested prior to shipping... BUT there are also 8 events that occured back
> in
> November?? Also, in the details the events from November list a different
> computer name than the more recent ones. Is it possible that Gateway
> installed Vista on an old/returned/refurb computer??
>
> I would hate to think that would be the case but it seems like it could
> explain some of the issues I'm having. Anyways, I wanted to get some of
> your
> guys' thoughts and suggestions before I spend hours on the phone talking
> to
> recorders. Sorry this is so long and thanks for any help.
>
>
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