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    Slow Asus S96s

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by manic1982, Jan 1, 2008.

  1. manic1982

    manic1982 Newbie

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    Hello everyone!

    Yesterday i bought the a/m notebook and I'm facing the following problems
    until now.

    The startup is extremely low (abt 13 bars passing) and I have only installed the drivers for everything.

    Furthermore when I go to Start->All programs with the mouse the new window opens very very slowly (the window appears faint and becomes usable in 3sec).

    I opened the taskbar but nothing is taking much ram (or eating continuously)
    at processes.

    My OS is XP pro,cpu 7500, 2GB ram, HD at 7200rpm.

    The drivers for the gpu are the latest.

    I would really appreciate your help because I'm very disappointed.

    Thanx in advance

    ( I just found out from BIOS that the VGA card is operating at abt 98 degrees C.

    How normal is that??? Should I go for replacement?)
     
    manic1982, Jan 1, 2008
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  2. socketbind

    socketbind Notebook Guru

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    Hello,

    98 degrees is excessive, the highest I ever got was 71 C. So it seems that the graphics card is the culprit in some way.
     
    socketbind, Jan 1, 2008
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  3. manic1982

    manic1982 Newbie

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    Thanx for the advise m8! Do you know if this is a reason for replacement of notebook since the vga card is part of the barebone?
     
    manic1982, Jan 3, 2008
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  4. socketbind

    socketbind Notebook Guru

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    I don't think that replacement is necessary. They were just lame during the assembly and screwed up the cooling. That can be fixed (not a lengthy procedure) and apart from that your notebook should be okay.
     
    socketbind, Jan 3, 2008
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