They don't like each other much eh. I upgraded my friend's XP to 7. Aero works fine, but whenever UAC dims the background screen, it "shutters"/"goes blank" and there is a few seconds delay before the UAC pops up. Same goes to logging on and off. Logging on, there's a blank screen for like 5-10 seconds compared to like 1 second. Looks like I have to use Aero Basic on this chip
What version of Windows 7 are you using? Could be a driver issue but I'm sure you are already using the latest Windows 7 driver.
7 Ultimate. Tried the original driver that came with Windows 7 as well as the latest driver via Windows Update. I guess this "GPU" is pretty weak. or maybe its a hard disk problem. Because I know the Windows XP MBR got curropted due to bad sector Should I tell my friend to "upgrade" the hard disk? Laptop warranty just expired last month I wonder how healthy is the hard disk. Any programs to check how healthy it is? I check using Crystal DiscInfo and it says "warning". Just like my retired 5-6 year old WD 250gb drive.
Aihhhh.. If not, you can get the HDD replaced for free. Well, no harm asking though, cause some will still cover the notebook if the warranty just lapsed a week or two (e.g. Dell). You can either take it out and attach it to a desktop and run Scandisk... or you can boot up using the Windows 7 installation disk and run chkdsk from it.
Windows 7 got rid of scandisk right? I believe Microsoft uses chkdsk now. I wonder what commands should I run on chkdsk. Before I formatted it, It did detect some error. Now I have formatted it, there's no error. Does the format on the windows 7 cd reallocated bad sectors?
No la.. It's always there, albeit it's called Error-checking now. Just right click on the drive in Windows Explorer, select Properties and go to Tools. You will see the Error-checking option there. If you are using a command prompt, use chkdsk /r to check for bad sectors and correct them. If you are doing a normal format, yes, it will reallocate bad sectors. But if you run a quick format, then it skips that step and your bad sectors will not be identified or replaced.
