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    Just got my G50 A2...

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by infinityjew, Aug 26, 2008.

  1. infinityjew

    infinityjew Notebook Enthusiast

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    First off amazing out of the box just a beautiful laptop. I have a couple of questions though...

    1. 36% of my memory is being used when nothing but vista is running...what vista bull**** can I disable so that I can actually use the memory im paying for?

    2. does removing the jumpers from the hd's make that big of a difference? Im not to keen with taking apart my laptop but if it makes a big difference ill go get the screwdriver.

    Thanks!
     
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  2. Slaughterhouse

    Slaughterhouse Knock 'em out!

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    Congrats on the purchase!

    I disabled a bunch of start up services and my memory is still at 30% so I don't know what's going on. Who knows how to reduce even more system resources?
     
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  3. NAS Ghost

    NAS Ghost Notebook Deity

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    1) Best way to do this; Clean install.

    2) Um....yea; it determines how the hard drive it set. There should be a picture on the side of it showing what the jumpers do in different positions.
     
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    AM Radio Notebook Evangelist

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  5. ViciousXUSMC

    ViciousXUSMC Master Viking NBR Reviewer

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    Time for yet another of my photoshop pictures :p

    I was waiting for an opportunity to use it :p

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    Moral of the story: Unused ram is wasted ram, not the other way around. So your actually using what you paid for. Vista is better with memory than XP and with a machine like this with 4gb it can run much faster.
     
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    corruptz0r, Aug 26, 2008
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