I have a Dell Inspiron 1521 computer, 250gig HDD and 2gigs of DDR RAM. Ever since I've bought it it has ran vista fine and until recently it has had some physical memory issues. When I open Task Manager and go to the performance tab it show's 1407 of my total 1917 MB of RAM as "CACHED" with little as 10 free MB open. I have only Firefox open and aim as we speak. Earlier today and yesterday when i installed Vista on my new HDD, mentioned above, everything was running fin and the cached memory number was lower. Since I have such a high amount of cached memory does this mean I need to upgrade to 4 GIGS? Or are there any other ways to fix this issue, please any assitance is greatly valued!
Hey bro, a gross consumption of system resources s a good sign of... sorry to be the one to tell you, but a virus. A good free virus removal/detector is avg ( http://free.avg.com/ ). If this isn't the problem, you might want to shut down extra junk. You can delete stuff from your Programs folder, or you can do a temp thin. Under run on the start menu, type msconfig. From here, you can shut down any programs that you don't need. Just make sure to restart when you're done.
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I am no expert at vista yet but I can tell you that 2 gigs of RAM is not enough. You can disale some features in Vista, but it is a memory hog and you should probably be running about 4 gigs Ram.
It seems your new HDD is not formatted properly there are few bad sectors so u need to format once more. Thats a page file error once your OS detected you new HDD it started using root of that HDD for pagefile.sys and that fall on bad sector which generated delayed write and in turn you got dun dun dun.
Just looked at the details that are stored on fixya, I see the laptop would have a SATA connector, so the new one is IDE? you will have to get a SATA drive and it should fit. well compair the original to the new one, the one with flat connectors fits?
checklist:
1. sound driver
2. microphone settings in volume control applet
3. tap test (tap the area around the microphone and see if eg Sound Recorder picks it up)
4. external microphone
If you get to step 4 before you get anything then your problem is one of missing or damaged microphone.
How can I clean my computer, I mean I just installed Vistta onto my new HDD yesterday...i barely have downloaded anything so disk cleanup or what?
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