Three Questions, please help

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gt5l · #1 Post by **gt5l** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 7:13 am

Hello, I have three questions/problems to address
1. The power meter gauge displayed in the taskbar area flickers maybe every 10 seconds or so, why is that and is there a solution to the annoying issue?
2. At any given point of time, I have at least 40% of RAM occupied, even when I restart the computer and before starting any program. Is that reserved for graphics card? What is the deal?
3. My computer will not enter sleep mode on its own, I have the computer set to go into screensaver mode after 10 minutes, then sleep after 60 60 minutes, but it only goes into screensaver. I have the sleep setting in Lenovo power management and I can see it reflected in Windows power management too. Can anyone help me fix this issue please?

CP-Geek · #2 Post by **CP-Geek** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 12:00 pm

1. I don't use the Thinkpad gauge. Vista gadget is IMO better / More informative.

2. Windows Vista uses memory more "*nix-like" than for example XP. It reserves more physical memory and reduces swapping to HDD compared to XP. Why are windows-people always so obsessed to have a lot of free memory? You have paid for the memory, use it! I'm running T60 w 2Gb mem and 1.35Gb is used. And I love it. It's made for using, not being idle. (And my comp's not swapping to slow HDD...)

3. Strange. Is everything (Thinkvantage) updated?

#3 Post by **gator** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 12:16 pm

3. Make sure you have disable the 'wake on LAN' setting in your wirleless/ethernet card profile.

gt5l · #4 Post by **gt5l** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 12:32 pm

gator wrote:3. Make sure you have disable the 'wake on LAN' setting in your wirleless/ethernet card profile.

Thank you for the advice, that was one of the first things I tried but still no luck.

gt5l · #5 Post by **gt5l** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 12:34 pm

CP-Geek wrote: 3. Strange. Is everything (Thinkvantage) updated?

Thank you for the comments, but I run the update frequenlty (plus it is scheduled to run on its own too).

gt5l · #6 Post by **gt5l** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 9:58 am

Well, Sort of, I tried to uninstall Migration Assistant and my computer started acting funky, every time I boot it up it tries to configure migration assistant and gets stuck on that screen, and my kaspersky AV would not work for some reason. I tried restore from previous backup but that did not help. Therefore, I formatted and reinstalled windows. This resolved the entering into sleep mode, now my computer goes to sleep, the battery gauge is not flickering anymore, and I have a fresh install.

Three Questions, please help

Three Questions, please help

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