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02-06-2008, 02:50 PM
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Extremely slow Win 2000 --stumped!
I'm working on a friend's pc. It's a celeron 800mhz HP that had Win Me. It was the slowest box I ever saw. I formatted and put Win 2000 on it--it's still the slowest pc ever. Specs:
30GB Quantum Fireball hdd- ran tests with HDTune, all is OK 128 MB pc100 SD RAM (more ordered) Ive tested everything I can think of. THere's nothing running except AVG. It's a clean install, no spyware, adware etc. System says it doesn't need defragging. Checked disk, OK ,No bad blocks on disk. Before I got hold of it, owner had a guy in to "fix" a few things. He had charged her $ several times. I found the router plugged into itself, no connection to pc at all. Makes me wonder what else he did to it. WOuld changing the memory settings make it so slow? Total Physical-129,520 KB (Yes, KB is what it syas in System Info) Available physical memory-29,880 KB Total Virtual Memory-439,476 KB Available Virtual Memory- 202, o44 KB Page file space- 309,956 KB I have no idea about these settings WOuld these be appropriate? ( CPUZ shows 128 MB RAM) I fixed up an old Dell 700mhz pc with XP Home for my brother and it will run circles around this. I never saw anything as slow as this machine. WIll the 512 MB memory I ordered make a difference? SOrry post is so long but I'm stumped! |
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02-06-2008, 04:01 PM
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02-06-2008, 07:18 PM
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Win2K runs like molasses in January with only 128mb ram, no matter how fast the processor is.
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02-06-2008, 08:53 PM
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Yeah, you need a lot more RAM to run W2k. 512mb if it can support it would work well.
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02-06-2008, 09:40 PM
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Well it's a relief to know that. It'll take max 512 so thats what I'm putting in it. Thanks for the answers.
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02-06-2008, 10:18 PM
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When 2K was current, we sold systems with it with 256, that was acceptable. 512 is even better - that's what I have on this laptop with it and a 700 MHz processor - and I have a desktop with 2K and 1gb.
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02-13-2008, 04:33 PM
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I have a computer I'm fixing for myself now and it came with 128mb of RAM and Windows XP. I wonder how slow it was.
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02-14-2008, 12:28 PM
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XP on 128 is a real snoozer. We sold XP boxes with 512 minimum, today we use 2gb with XP with DDR2 ram being so cheap.
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