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[quote1270115117=jeepers01]Perhaps he’s in a cold ambient and hasn’t got the central heating switched on :D[/quote1270115117]
Hmm well no central heating here, though the wood burners keep the house pretty warm. 😀Though this reminds me…
[quote1270115217=Suftop]Has anyone yet tried to take their n210 apart to apply new thermal paste?I was doing some reading that they might use the tape instead, and I have this nice new tube of AS5 that I bought a while back after lapping the HSU on my desktop…it’s almost full.[/quote1270115217]
Although I don’t have an N210 (I have an NC10), I replaced the thermal paste on my processor and chipset with AS5.[quote1270115217=Suftop]Wondering if it might help keep it cooler than the thermal tape that is probably on it now does.
Also wondering if doing so would void all my warranties of course, and not sure if it’s worth the risk…[/quote1270115217]
Yes it would likely void your warranty.
Though I don’t think it really makes much of a difference, at-least not when I tested it before and after (and then again a few weeks later).Just like everyone else I’m running Windows 7 Ultimate + Bitlocker drive encryption and it runs fine.
However I wouldn’t bother with Ultimate unless you need Bitlocker or multiple interface languages, Home Premium or Professional seem to be a better deal.
A performance score of around 2.2 is usual for the NC10.
Just ran the health check on mine, everything passed though there was one warning as it couldn’t detect any anti-virus software, though I have Microsoft Security Essentials installed…Did you run the test while on battery, as if you did and you haven’t changed the power plan settings the processor will be limited to 50%. You can change this if you want, details are here.
I would leave the resolution at 1024×600 as that’s the native resolution of the panel, anything higher will just be scaled to 1024×600, though it is useful for running programs that need a larger screen.
My bet is that it’s the same as with most of the other Samsung netbooks, which is that it varies depending on which country the N150 is meant for. Also there are often different models for a particular country e.g. ones which come with HSDPA, different sized batteries etc…
Just as a quick followup it seems that I’m getting different readings from SpeedFan and CPUID Hardware Monitor. Here are my current readings, the netbook is mostly idle with a few programs open in the background and has been running for a few hours. These readings seem more inline with other peoples.
no it’s a bug in the drivers, well it might be performance related as well.
Supposedly whats happening is that the graphics card is taking too long to wake and so Windows assumes that it’s crashed and so reloads the driver. Though it’s been a while since I last looked into the issue.
The graphics card itself should be more than capable of handling something like auto hiding the taskbar.
Hmm for some reason Speedfan is only picking up the Core0 and Core1 temps at the moment…
Anyway for my NC10 they are both reading at around 22’C, I’m currently just browsing the internet on it and dong some light work.
After running the Prime95 stress test for a while my netbook hits at maximum around 50’C, though this is pretty much a worst case scenario. The bottom is warm, but not uncomfortably so.
Yes it stops when I turn off the auto-hide, I set the taskbar to be small instead and it hasn’t happened since. I would disable the auto hide and see whether it still crashes.
Though do you get the message popping up, saying that the graphics driver has crashed?
The display should shut down if you sleep the computer or shut the lid.
When the display stops working for a split second do you get a driver error popup?
I seem to get this if I have the taskbar set to autohide.Check out this thread to set the default power profiles maximum to 100%. Though when you use Fn + F8 to go into speed mode, it should be running at 100%. Though it’s still worth doing in my experience.
If you haven’t already I would also go into msconfig (you can type it into the search on the start menu) and check to make sure that you don’t have a load of unwanted programs running at startup.
Odd it should reasonably quick at most tasks.
Did you try changing the maximum processor speed while on battery from 50% to 100% and replace McAfee with something else?
I would be tempted to uninstall the Easy Display Manager first, just in case you have the Windows XP version installed.
If you press F2 at startup to get into the BIOS, you can then use the left arrow key to move to the Main tab. It should specify the BIOS and MICOM versions, I think 07CE is the latest version for the N120.
Try going to Samsung’s website and download then (re)install the Samsung Easy Display Manager.
Additionally make sure you have the latest BIOS (Firmware), as it’s needed for the correct operation of brightness control under Windows 7.
[quote1269726475=__spc__]I’m not sure SRS4 gives a performance hit… and without a Recovery Partition, just use an external drive. I like this software….
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You can’t install it if it doesn’t detect a partition of the correct type. At-least it wont for me.
Not that I’m particularly bothered by not being able to install it.
