Reliability index & your experience with Vista 64 on T6x

Message

jgrobertson · #1 Post by **jgrobertson** » Sat Jul 14, 2007 10:06 am

What are you finding with Vista 64. I am running it on a Core 2 Duo and have had a lot of stability issues. Currently thinking that those are related to the Norton 360 & 2007 that I had on there at different times but not sure.

The reliability index since I did a clean install on this machine (3 GBYTE, 100 GB 7200 HD, T7400 Core 2 Duo), started at 6 and went down to 1.2 then it reset itself because of corruption.

I did send the whole mess of about 40 events to Microsoft before it reset.

On the other hand, it runs my office applications real nice and is far faster than XP on the same machine (I have 2 HD and dual boot). It also does a nice job with MS Flight Simulator on my two 1600 X 1200 flat screens. (This T60P has 1600 X 1200 IPS Flexview screen).

mdarter · #2 Post by **mdarter** » Fri Jul 20, 2007 4:11 pm

My experience with x64 Vista Enterprise has been quite good so far. My Reliability Index is 7.66 right now, and really the only problems I've had are when I've brought the laptop out of sleep mode and either removed or added a USB device. Minor annoyance, and if I would just wait for it to wake up and then make the change I think I would avoid even those issues.

I'm running an eval of Norton 2007 Internet Security. I never thought I would go back to a Norton product, but after running evals on AVG, PCcillin, Kaspersky and CA, I must say I'm impressed. A little more dumbed down than I would like, but the resources used are lower than any of the others I've tried. They've cleaned up their code significanlty. Norton used to be a major resource hog.

My perception is x64 is quite a bit faster that x86; maybe 25%?. I have two drives that I can swap back and forth, but haven't taken the time to do any performance comparisons.

The only driver issue I've had so far is an unsigned 64-bit driver for my Sprint USB broadband, but turning off driver signing allows it to load and work fine.

mdarter

T61 | T7300 2.0 GHz | 4 Gb | Vista Enterprise x64 | Momentus 7200.2 160 Gb | 14.1" WXGA+ | nVidia Quadro NVS 140M | 1Gb Turbo |

NW8000 | Pentium M 735 1.7 GHz | 2 Gb | XP Pro | Hitachi 7200 100 Gb | 15" SXGA+ | ATI Mobility Fire GL T2 |

jgrobertson · #3 Post by **jgrobertson** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 1:04 am

How long have you been running it with 64?

Do you have all the Lenovo drivers installed?

Was it a Lenovo pre-install or did you install it from a retail version?

Thanks.

mdarter · #4 Post by **mdarter** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 6:12 pm

jgrobertson · #5 Post by **jgrobertson** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 9:31 pm

I am on my 8th day since rebuild from retail Ultimate 64 after reformatting the HD.

The Reliability Monitor index has gone from 7.17 to 4.09 (out of 10) in that time. What is yours reading?

The main problem I am having is the docking & undocking with different networks (WiFI, Verizon WAN, wired on two different routers). Specifically the big culprit is:

HPSLPSVC Which is Hewlett Packard sleep manager that comes with their Ink Jet all-in-ones, at least with the Officejet 6310. Googling this I see that there is a long history of trouble with this going back more than two years and with XP too. Apparently it is more pronounced on Vista.

Thinking of dumping the printer and getting something from a better manufacturer. I have an HP Color Laserjet 3600n at home and that is fine. I think they put more effort into the higher end printers.

mdarter · #6 Post by **mdarter** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 9:05 pm

Reliability index & your experience with Vista 64 on T6x

Reliability index & your experience with Vista 64 on T6x

Who is online