My Dell Mini Forum

holmes4 · 08-30-2010, 03:23 PM

Chrome runs each tab in a separate process - better security and helps avoid crashing the browser if a plugin in one tab fails.

hypnotoed · 08-30-2010, 06:41 PM

Ah, fair enough. I suspected as much, thanks for the confirmation.

While I have your attention, do you have any suggestions/solutions for my small predicament? (pun intended

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rrfranczak3 · 08-30-2010, 06:42 PM

seems like a terrible waste of resources if you ask me...but then again FF usully has about 100k-200k in my task manager and if you divide it by my open tabs I guess it comes out to about the same.....just never saw it done that way before....

thanks Steve....

holmes4 · 08-31-2010, 01:02 PM

Look for other browsers to adopt a similar model. Firefox 4 does this, I think.

brookheather · 09-03-2010, 04:09 PM

Your freezing problem symptoms could indicate a failing hard drive - basically Windows is locked up while trying to flush out pending writes to the disc and the hard drive is not responding in a timely fashion. Install Speedfan and look at the SMART info for your hard drive - does it show any hardware problems?

Download SpeedFan - Access temperature sensor in your computer

- Simon.

tnguy · **Not the browser. It is a HDD or Windows problem. -** 12-11-2010, 07:03 PM

The "freezing" problem has nothing to do with your browser. I just bought two identical 1012's. One has the "freezing" problem, the other does not. I swapped the hard drives, and the problem followed the hard drive. Running the Diagnostics from F12 on bootup shows everything passed. Dell's India support are not only difficult to understand, but completely unhelpful. I was transferred among 4 different people, over a 1hr45min call, and finally hung up when they left me on hold for 20 min and never returned. I considered that Windows7 Starter could have some corruption, even though I never got any error messages or blue screens, and used the Anytime Upgrade on both machines to update to 7 Pro. On the machine with no problems, it took about 30-40 min. On the machine with problems, I stopped the "upgrading" after it sat there for 2 days. As soon as I popped the drive into the other machine, the upgrade completed. Still, it freezes randomly. I may just wipe the drive and try to copy the image from the good machine to the bad one. It has to either be something physical with the HDD, or something software in Windows, but I am stumped at this point. If I get conclusive evidence, I will repost here.

BeBoP BiGsHoT · 12-16-2010, 04:59 AM

When I upgraded one of my two machines from XP to Win7 Ultimate I backed up my files on the harddrive. This caused a huge slowdown / lag / crashing.

When I did a fresh install of Win7 (losing alot of files that i didn't back up). Everything was much better.

sggrant323 · 01-01-2011, 09:31 PM

Does anyone have a solution to this problem?

I have upgraded to a fresh install of Windows 7 Home Premium. I am still getting these random freezes that last about a minute every so often. I turned off the Intel Speed tool from the BIOS and now I can move the mouse around when it freezes, but I could not before. I just got this damn thing 4 days ago, and I really need to figure out how to fix this problem. I'd prefer not having to send it to dell. If it is a bad harddrive, will they just send me a replacement hard drive that I can put in myself?

sggrant323 · 01-02-2011, 03:05 AM

Ok this is slowly driving me nuts. What program can I use to test the hard drive? The dell diagnostics utilities say everything is ok.

plchan · 01-02-2011, 04:22 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sggrant323

Does anyone have a solution to this problem?

I have upgraded to a fresh install of Windows 7 Home Premium. I am still getting these random freezes that last about a minute every so often. I turned off the Intel Speed tool from the BIOS and now I can move the mouse around when it freezes, but I could not before. I just got this damn thing 4 days ago, and I really need to figure out how to fix this problem. I'd prefer not having to send it to dell. If it is a bad harddrive, will they just send me a replacement hard drive that I can put in myself?

did you format your HD before you did the refresh install Windows 7 home pro? just wondered.

I better start playing with the mini. I got it on the new year eve and I have been busy and not able to open the box.

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holmes4 Super Moderator Posts: 5,686 Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: New Hampshire	08-30-2010, 03:23 PM Chrome runs each tab in a separate process - better security and helps avoid crashing the browser if a plugin in one tab fails. Steve Mini 9\|2GB RAM\|64GB RunCore\|Intel 5300\|Windows 8

hypnotoed Junior Member Posts: 8 Join Date: Jul 2010	08-30-2010, 06:41 PM Ah, fair enough. I suspected as much, thanks for the confirmation. While I have your attention, do you have any suggestions/solutions for my small predicament? (pun intended )

holmes4 Super Moderator Posts: 5,686 Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: New Hampshire	08-31-2010, 01:02 PM Look for other browsers to adopt a similar model. Firefox 4 does this, I think. Steve Mini 9\|2GB RAM\|64GB RunCore\|Intel 5300\|Windows 8

BeBoP BiGsHoT Junior Member Posts: 18 Join Date: Mar 2010	12-16-2010, 04:59 AM When I upgraded one of my two machines from XP to Win7 Ultimate I backed up my files on the harddrive. This caused a huge slowdown / lag / crashing. When I did a fresh install of Win7 (losing alot of files that i didn't back up). Everything was much better.

sggrant323 Junior Member Posts: 15 Join Date: Dec 2010	01-02-2011, 03:05 AM Ok this is slowly driving me nuts. What program can I use to test the hard drive? The dell diagnostics utilities say everything is ok.

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