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Cide wrote on 2011-12-21 17:43
yesterday, i factory restored my dell studio 540, which reformatted my harddrive, reinstalled the OS, and restored my computer to factory settings.
now, upon startup and when changing many things (resolution especially) i freeze for up to a few minutes before the computer begins to respond again. when i start mabinogi, it similarly freezes except this time so badly that i generally have to hard-restart my computer.
i should specify what "freeze" means in this case; several (~10-20) seconds of unresponsiveness and, if i'm moving my mouse at the time, when it finally does respond my mouse will pop over to wherever it's supposed to be. in mabi's case, this lag is much longer.
on mabi, after several minutes of freezing i can sometimes get in if i'm set to fullscreen mode, but it then freezes when i try to open the menu, open pretty much any window, or change settings. it's unplayable in this state.
i originally thought it was a graphics driver issue, but after fighting with those for hours last night i think i got those to work for me. maybe not, though, i don't know. if it's any help, i'm using vista home professional 64bit, and an ATI radeon hd 3450 as my video card.
if someone could help, that would be really lovely because this is really really frustrating.
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Coy wrote on 2011-12-21 17:46
i hope someone can help you bebe /cryyy
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Zid wrote on 2011-12-21 18:18
Sounds like it's a RAM issue. Unresponsiveness like that generally occurs due to lack of virtual memory, I believe.
You could test it out by opening up Photoshop and a pretty big .psd (perhaps a 50-100MB file). If the computer doesn't respond at all while loading that file, I'm sure the problem lies with your RAM.
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Cide wrote on 2011-12-21 19:23
Quote from Zid;700817:
Sounds like it's a RAM issue. Unresponsiveness like that generally occurs due to lack of virtual memory, I believe.
You could test it out by opening up Photoshop and a pretty big .psd (perhaps a 50-100MB file). If the computer doesn't respond at all while loading that file, I'm sure the problem lies with your RAM.
the thing is it was working just fine before i factory rebooted it.
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Zid wrote on 2011-12-21 19:38
Quote from Cide;700901:
the thing is it was working just fine before i factory rebooted it.
Did those RAM parts come pre-installed with your hardware setup?
I don't know much past this point, but it seems like your motherboard isn't able to optimally utilize your RAM in its default factory settings. You could try to detach then reinsert the RAM, but that's just the novice in me talking.
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Yoorah wrote on 2011-12-21 22:02
I doubt it's the RAM. :p It's most likely a software issue.
My guess is that the Windows installation got corrupted somehow while it was installing, or you did something weird to it by accident after it installed. You should have absolutely no problems after a fresh install.
What I'd suggest is that you follow so-called best practices for installing a system reliably:
Start from scratch: Format and install again.
Once you do that, be sure that the first thing you do is run Windows Update and get all the important fixes. Reboot between each batch of patches, then check for new patches, etc, until you've got em all.*
After, do so for the optional updates--there are some that improve reliability. Go through them and see which ones may be useful to you.*
*Alternatively, if your system restores itself to Vista SP1 or Vista with no SP at all, you could download SP2 from Microsoft and update the whole OS directly. This is my preferred method, although some people think downloading a file manually is too complicated. :<
Only once you've done the above, should you download the drivers for your system. DO NOT get driver updates from Windows update! While they are usually okay, it is not that rare of an occurrence for Microsoft to put the wrong driver there. <_<;; Get them from your system manufacturer's support site.
Then install your favourite antivirus, IM programs, games, crap etc.
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Cide wrote on 2011-12-21 22:17
upon reinstalling vista from a disc rather than the partition, the problem seems to have been resolved.
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Zid wrote on 2011-12-22 04:24
Glad that worked. Didn't figure it'd be corrupted OS installation.
I had problems similar to the listed until I upgraded the RAM on my rig, but that was years ago.