Ibm t43 and windows 7?

[americo24]

Okay I have an ibm t43 2.0ghz and 2 gigs of ram, but I want to know am I the only one feeling excess heat when I use windows 7 on this machine I me my god it gets hot! and its using over 50% of my ram, Linux on the other hand (uses alot less resources) doesn't even use 1/4 of my ram and guess what the laptop doesn't get hot either, just slightly warm.

Do you think it is slightly possible th windows 7 is a lot on the cpu? amd what are your experiences?

[killer]

Maybe you ought to ask this question in the Win 7 forum? I have no intention of using it on my machine ... unless they pay me.

[ajkula66]

If you have a machine with ATi graphics, W7 should run smooth, no overheating whatsoever even under full Aero.

Have you installed all the applicable drivers - including power management ones - after you were done with OS?

[americo24]

If you have a machine with ATi graphics, W7 should run smooth, no overheating whatsoever even under full Aero.

Have you installed all the applicable drivers - including power management ones - after you were done with OS?

All of my drivers are fine Im sure thats not the problem, but It seems the computer just gets hot underneath like sometimes very hot but when I use Linux the computer is a bit warm, so thats why I am asking if win 7 uses alot of cpu, well maybe I should ask this in the 1in 7 forum.

[ajkula66]

FWIW, I've ran W7 on my last T43p which was not a cool machine by any stretch of imagination, and haven't really noticed any difference in temperature between XP and W7.

You can always undervolt it using the NHC, it will run cooler and give better battery life in return as well.

[Tasurinchi]

I've ran W7 on my last T43p which was not a cool machine by any stretch of imagination, and haven't really noticed any difference in temperature between XP and W7

I concur, I'm also running Win7 ultimate in my T43p and it's not getting hot at all (I also did not undervolt it).

Please run Windows Update and install Lenovo System Update to have all latest drivers. That may help...

Cheers

[RealBlackStuff]

And maybe your fan is full of fluff, or there is no thermal paste between CPU and cooler!
Replacing the paste (or lack of it) with fresh Arctic Silver is definitely a good idea after so many years.

[Tasurinchi]

with fresh Arctic Silver is definitely a good idea after so many years.

Definetely! I allways use Artic Silver 5 for my desktops. Excellent termal paste.

On a second note, does anybody know how long termal paste will be effective? Or how often should be applied new?

[IBM]

I would never put Win7 on these older IBM Laptops, especially when their stock design was optimized for Windows XP. Maybe Vista or Linux, but I do not like Vista too much, and Linux is RAM hungry. But my T43p has Windows Longhorn on it. Seems to do fine. BTW, Longhorn is one of those Microsoft fails I suppose.

IBM

[Tasurinchi]

I would never put Win7 on these older IBM Laptops

I thought many of the posts above (and other threads in this forum as well) were showing that Win7 will work fine. In my case without any issues in both my T43p and X31.

Even if I compare the responsivness against my Desktop (a Pentium Quad with 4GB an XP Pro) I don't feel any big differences in browsing or emailing.

Just my 0.02 cents...

[RealBlackStuff]

Longhorn is the codename for XP. You must have a very old XP-version from around 2000 or 2001

[ajkula66]

IBM wrote:

I would never put Win7 on these older IBM Laptops, especially when their stock design was optimized for Windows XP. Maybe Vista or Linux, but I do not like Vista too much, and Linux is RAM hungry.

I've had both Vista and W7 on a variety of high-end T4x units, and W7 runs a lot smoother than Vista.

As for Linux being RAM hungry...right now I'm in Mint 7 with about 12 browser windows (10 Firefox + 2 Galeon) open, and all I'm seeing used is 512MB which is really not that bad...and this in on T43 with Intel integrated graphics which suck RAM as well...

[Xenomorph]

I would never put Win7 on these older IBM Laptops, especially when their stock design was optimized for Windows XP. Maybe Vista or Linux, but I do not like Vista too much, and Linux is RAM hungry. But my T43p has Windows Longhorn on it. Seems to do fine. BTW, Longhorn is one of those Microsoft fails I suppose.

IBM

I think you got things a little backwards.

You wouldn't put Windows 7 on them, but maybe Vista?

Windows 7 runs better on older systems like the T43 than Vista does.

[spikex34]

I would never put Win7 on these older IBM Laptops, especially when their stock design was optimized for Windows XP. Maybe Vista or Linux, but I do not like Vista too much, and Linux is RAM hungry. But my T43p has Windows Longhorn on it. Seems to do fine. BTW, Longhorn is one of those Microsoft fails I suppose.

IBM

I would not put Vista on a T43. But I think Win7 is fine if you have enough RAM and a reasonably quick hard drive. I recently installed Win7 Pro on my T43 (2 gigs of RAM and reasonably new Seagate Momentus), and I think Win7 runs fine. Boot times are significantly faster with Win7 than XP SP3 (time to usable desktop after BIOS loads is around 25 seconds vs. around 35 seconds). Things are a bit sluggish immediately after booting up, but Win7's bigger appetite for RAM makes things run quicker down the line. For reference Win7 is using 500MB after idling for a minute post-bootup with no programs loaded.

Also keep in mind Win7 was in part supposed to run on netbooks the way Vista could not; while I don't think Win7 is optimized for Pentium M machines, as others have said above me it's not exactly a resource hog the way Vista was either. Not sure either where you're getting the idea of Linux being a RAM hog. I'm not 100% sure how much RAM the latest version of Ubuntu uses, but an older Ubuntu or a Gentoo install with something like XFCE does not use up very much RAM at all.

Edit: for what it's worth not using Aero and have ATI card.