10-08-2006, 12:07
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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
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10-08-2006, 12:09
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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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10-08-2006, 12:13
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Re: my aunties slow pc!
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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10-08-2006, 12:17
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Re: my aunties slow pc!
LOL XP on that spec with 256MB of RAM? Amazing.
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10-08-2006, 12:21
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Re: my aunties slow pc!
i know!
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10-08-2006, 12:24
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Re: my aunties slow pc!
May as well just buy a cheap new PC?
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10-08-2006, 12:30
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Re: my aunties slow pc!
i know. i cant find that everest thing.
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10-08-2006, 12:31
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Re: my aunties slow pc!
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
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10-08-2006, 12:33
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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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10-08-2006, 21:01
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Re: my aunties slow pc!
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LOL XP on that spec with 256MB of RAM? Amazing.
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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 
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10-08-2006, 23:42
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Re: my aunties slow pc!
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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11-08-2006, 07:46
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Re: my aunties slow pc!
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Originally Posted by nicke261192
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? 
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11-08-2006, 15:16
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Re: my aunties slow pc!
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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11-08-2006, 15:32
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Re: my aunties slow pc!
But it's not BTs fault you didn't check out the hardware for bottle-necking
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11-08-2006, 15:40
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Re: my aunties slow pc!
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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