I need computer help!

[APRIL]

Wow all this information would have cost you around $300 with Geek Squad.

 

[fly]

Ok guys I appreciate the advice I will go with the hardware upgrades and see if i can get another year or two out of this thing.

I still think you have something else wrong. I can build an XP machine on a 5-7 year old machine with 256MB of RAM and it wont take 5 minutes to start Firefox.

Does Dave have a laptop? Just borrow his RAM to see if that fixes it.

edit: And btw, if changing the power scheme didn't help, change it back or your battery life will suffer SEVERELY.

 

[my little brony]

edit: And btw, if changing the power scheme didn't help, change it back or your battery life will suffer SEVERELY.

yes, use portable when you're on battery and home or presentation when you've got it plugged in


also, if firefox is the only thing running incredibly slow then it could be something with that particular program. which version? have you tried removing and reinstalling it? could be a bad codec it's trying to load or a gimped dll it's choking on

 

[BeerAd]

Norton is absolutely horrible. I'd rather shoot myself in the face than use it for 1 year.

QFT. 360 is even less configurable then regular NAV or NIS. I despise that one even more. To temporarily disable the AV or Firewall for test purposes is like 5 clicks, when NIS is right click on the tray icon.

A simple "no" would be ok too

 

[Onnotangu]

make sure you update your Bios. do you need any recovery disks or diagnostic discs? I have both. anything del I'm rated to fix.

Oh what is your service tag on your laptop. Should be on the bottom of the laptop in a small white long sticker. 5 characters.

 

[Onnotangu]

Wow all this information would have cost you around $300 with Geek Squad.

$453

 

[Dharma1521]

I still think you have something else wrong. I can build an XP machine on a 5-7 year old machine with 256MB of RAM and it wont take 5 minutes to start Firefox.

Does Dave have a laptop? Just borrow his RAM to see if that fixes it.

edit: And btw, if changing the power scheme didn't help, change it back or your battery life will suffer SEVERELY.

He doesn't have a laptop but his roommate does computer work and it keeping an eye out for some ram for me.

 

[fly]

A simple "no" would be ok too

Now that wouldn't be as much fun now would it. btw, Im removing spyware off a customers computer right now. Part of my cleanup involved removing Nortons spyware crapware and replacing it with AVG.

 

[BeerAd]

Now that wouldn't be as much fun now would it. btw, Im removing spyware off a customers computer right now. Part of my cleanup involved removing Nortons spyware crapware and replacing it with AVG.

I dont care for AVG


havent had any problems since installing 360, tons of constant problems when I just had AVG so i dunno

Everyone always says AVG is better, its just never worked that way for me

 

[Onnotangu]

hmm let me see if you can run th memory I just pulled from my machine.
..nope..closest I could find would be these people. http://www.parts-people.com/index.p...3&prevaction=category&previd=141&prevstart=48

 

[wanko80]

Try going to www.crucial.com to find memory.

 

[Josh]

or www.kingston.com or www.corsair.com
Most likely your laptop takes PC2700 DDR SODIMMs and bumping your memory to a gigabyte or more would add some speed boost, how much, not really sure.

 

[ERage]