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hi all,

i have an x61 tablet, 7200, 100GB HD, 3gigs Ram, 1gig turbo memory, 2gig extremeIII SD-Card and windows vista business.

I´m EXTREMLY happy and satisfied with the machine, and my expectations were very high. everything happens super fast and instantly. only thing to improve is boot down time.

i´ve bought the 2GB SD card for use with readyboost. initially i experienced BSOD-problems caused by some conflicts between turbomemory and the active disk protection/auto-rotate. after hours of internet research and millions of re-boots and driver changes i decided to turn off active disk protecion for now, and everything works perfect.

the thing is: i´m not sure what would be the best use for the SD card, as i can´t use it for redaboost because it already works on the turbomemory. i tried to turn of readyboost manually and only let readydrive run on turbomemory so that i could use turbomemory on the sd-card but after some reboots it always changes back to auto-activation and turbo memory for readyboost.
don´t get me wrong, it´s not that i´m unhappy with the performance, i just want to get the maximum.

2nd: to deactivate the disk protection just to avoid BSOD´s is very unsatisfying... does anyone know of a really working configuration with all these components?

to finish, just let me repeat how incredible usefull, powerfull this machine is for me, it really changes my working style to the better every day,

cheers,

aldric

well this might not be what you want to hear, but the fact that you have turbomem and 3GB of RAM already kills the readyboost usefulness. Even if you are using x64 version ReadyBoost wont be of any use with that much RAM already installed. ReadyBoost is for those systems with the 1GB limit (T30s i think and other machines). Systems with lots of RAM don't even need ReadyBoost and Vista doesn't use it.

There was a thread tho i think from Crunch about ReadyBoost causing BSODs.... it's some conflict that's repaired in SP1. He upgraded to the RC and he said it's been solved.

thanks,

i never thought that readyboost would significantly increase my performance, but i just wanted to benefit from it, as it comes for free with vista.

in this case i think for my config the best way is going to de-activate RB/RD, and go with the disk-protection.

thanks,

al