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 Apr 29 2008, 10:13 PM
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any pointers or insights on this would be great. |
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 Apr 29 2008, 10:37 PM
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 Just enough info to be armed & dangerous... Group: Members Posts: 1,712 Joined: 18-March 06 From: St Kilda, Dunedin. South Island. NZ Member No.: 59,805 |
svchost.exe is normal and is used by your system and services. I have 7 instances running at this moment.
To check them out, use a program such as Process Explorer which will give you a much better insight into what your PC is doing than Task Manager does. Info and download link on this page - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinte...s/bb896653.aspx (scvhost.exe - note spelling difference - is bad and should be investigated further.) Cheers This post has been edited by rowal5555: Apr 29 2008, 10:50 PM -------------------- |
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Apr 29 2008, 11:22 PM
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New Member Group: Members Posts: 8 Joined: 29-April 08 From: california Member No.: 206,146 |
thanks but how many instances are too many i have upwards of 20 goin' on. also you wouldn't happen to know how to see what programs are running in the backround besides using process explorer or task manager would you? if so can they be disabled?
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Apr 30 2008, 12:06 PM
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You might have a look here:
http://www.blackviper.com/ I would recommend using the safe options first. |
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Apr 30 2008, 12:41 PM
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 Visiting Alien Group: Members Posts: 3,942 Joined: 20-May 07 From: millenium falcon Member No.: 131,963 |
QUOTE I am constantly using at least 27% if my ram. that vista for you, but it shouldn't be causing game crashes, something else is wrong 3 gigs is an odd number, did you order it that way or was memory added to the original setup? what cpu? what video card?? what games are crashing? -------------------- |
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May 1 2008, 01:41 AM
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New Member Group: Members Posts: 8 Joined: 29-April 08 From: california Member No.: 206,146 |
I boought it at best buy and it came with 3gigs ddr2 Ram
it has an amd 64 x2 dual core processor graphics card - nvida 8600 GTS I know some of the games crash due to bugs (gothic 3) butothers crash and the pc tells me it ran out of memory. why is 3 gigs odd? |
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May 1 2008, 03:43 AM
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Just enough info to be armed & dangerous... Group: Members Posts: 1,712 Joined: 18-March 06 From: St Kilda, Dunedin. South Island. NZ Member No.: 59,805 |
This tutorial may help
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tutorials/tutorial129.html -------------------- |
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May 1 2008, 06:08 AM
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 Forum Addict Group: Moderator Posts: 12,364 Joined: 2-October 05 From: Southeastern CT, USA Member No.: 35,824 |
I've recently read something about asynchronous DDR2 settings that enable a system to run different size modules in dual channel mode. As I recall, it stated that it's faster than not running in dual channel mode, but slower than having matched modules in synchronous mode. I've seen quite a few of these systems and chalk it up to a marketing gimmick. The reasoning (I suppose) is that it's better to have 3 gB that the customer can see, than to have 4 gB where the customer can only see 3.26 gB of it. And, it'll decrease the service calls from customers asking "Where's the rest of my RAM?"
-------------------- - John
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May 1 2008, 06:36 AM
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Visiting Alien Group: Members Posts: 3,942 Joined: 20-May 07 From: millenium falcon Member No.: 131,963 |
I suspect the matching 512's might not play well with the matching 1 gig sticks
each motherboard/chipset/bios would be different tho intel claimed to be able to keep dual channel working with non matched pairs, I had one guy who kept quoting it but every time he removed the old smaller pair his computer sped up Another poster pulled his old lame ram and installed premium low cas ram in an amd64 computer, voltage was fine but he kept crashing mid way thru a long heavy duty video conversion, the single core cpu was not overheating, memtest86 could run for days no errors He upgraded his bios and the problem went away -------------------- |
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May 1 2008, 09:35 AM
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New Member Group: Members Posts: 8 Joined: 29-April 08 From: california Member No.: 206,146 |
QUOTE(DaChew @ May 1 2008, 04:36 AM)  I suspect the matching 512's might not play well with the matching 1 gig sticks each motherboard/chipset/bios would be different tho intel claimed to be able to keep dual channel working with non matched pairs, I had one guy who kept quoting it but every time he removed the old smaller pair his computer sped up Another poster pulled his old lame ram and installed premium low cas ram in an amd64 computer, voltage was fine but he kept crashing mid way thru a long heavy duty video conversion, the single core cpu was not overheating, memtest86 could run for days no errors He upgraded his bios and the problem went away what??? you'll have to either dumb this down or educate me here. are you saying I can tell the cpu to use one processor another to work on a single app? |
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May 1 2008, 11:14 AM
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Visiting Alien Group: Members Posts: 3,942 Joined: 20-May 07 From: millenium falcon Member No.: 131,963 |
there's no dumbing down this ram technology, it's extrememly complicated and even after years of experience it can be intimidating
many technicians still just rely on plug and pray to test or fix problems I use a program called cpu-z http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php to compare the cas levels of each stick you might also have some luck optimizing vista have you checked for the latest video drivers? -------------------- |
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May 2 2008, 05:04 PM
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 New Member Group: Members Posts: 3 Joined: 2-May 08 From: West Coast USA. Member No.: 206,704 |
Hey Blood
Try running a Spybot or spyware killer of your preference. Some hidden spywares will present as running items. Then reduce the number of items in your boot up. I have found on many different types of machines that more is not better. For example, why have a app start up unless you use it everytime you boot? There are more aggressive tasks to use if this does not work. Good Luck. -------------------- Passion Drives What Knowledge Provides!!
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