my aunties slow pc!
 

Right my antys pc is very old! its a viglen genie 2 Pro

Its Pentium 2 333MHz
20GB HDD
256MB RAM
64MB Graphics

Anyway she wants to add more ram. anyone know what kind she needs

Re: my aunties slow pc!
 

have you ever seen anyone here mention Everest? this will tell you im sure you must have seen it mentioned ;) (its prob pc 66/100 and you may well be on the boards limit this will all have to be checked)
Have you thrown xp at it? if so get rid and put win 2000 or win 98 se on there

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its had xp on since she got it and was working ok but for the past week its been going slow. defraged, cleaned reg, cleared temp files etc, system restore files cleaned and its still slow ill check everest then thanks

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LOL XP on that spec with 256MB of RAM? Amazing.

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i know!

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May as well just buy a cheap new PC?

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i know. i cant find that everest thing.

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I have to go with Smicer on this one, it'd probably be more economic than trying to source PC66/100/133 SDRAM :)

---------- Post added at 12:31 ---------- Previous post was at 12:31 ----------

Here for Everest: http://majorgeeks.com/EVEREST_Free_Edition_d4181.html

Re: my aunties slow pc!
 

I can get branded pc100 anytime I want pretty much.
Cheapest pc I sell is £250(To wer only) and I make fair profit on that ;)

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Yeah, some laptops are sold with that now (Advent 7094 i'm looking at you).

I personally wouldn't touch anything with less than 1 GB now and am considering upping the desktop to 2.

Nick - no offence but with that information i wouldn't be confident in finding you any compatible RAM to the extent I'd be equally confident in saying putting the Derby Ram in there would make a difference :D

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allright anyway i found the source of the slowness. she has just gone from talk talk with a usb modem to bt with a usb router. thats what was making it very slow so we got a £8 LAN card from PCWORLD and since i didnt have to install any drivers it has stopped freezing and going slow. Bloody BT! GRRR!

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Why bloody BT? If the computer cant handle a heavy USB device, then how is that BTs fault? :confused:

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beacuse i had to spend 6 hours restoring xp and putting all the software back on. it says on the router pack 200mhz +

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But it's not BTs fault you didn't check out the hardware for bottle-necking ;)

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To be honest you could replace that pc for her with something twice as fast for the cost and trouble it would take to find some RAM for it, even a 750mhz old p3 would seem like a Ferrari compared to what she has, and you could even move the HD over with her stuff on as a slave and install xp onto the primary HD of the new system.

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good idea ive been looking at "greatit" the seller on ebay has some to meet her needs for 45 pounds with free postage

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well I bought 256 meg of single sided samsung pc100 the other week for 20 quid or less cant remember

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I don't see any for £45, but all the £35 ones and the £55 one only have 128meg RAM, which would still be a bit skimpy. But perhaps you can use the RAM from the old machine?

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I've a old p3 with 547mhz 20gig HD and 8mb gfx I was stripping for bits, in two minds wether to rob its HD and leads and psu or refit it all and sell it on with the crt.

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The Crucial site could well recommend what memory is needed. Also, why not test it with PC Pitstop - it will inform you of the weakest parts of the system.