cleanup without reformat/reinstall?

[fastpakr]

2x1GB PC2100 SDRAM on eBay for $20 shipped

 

[kunar]

2x1GB PC2100 SDRAM on eBay for $20 shipped

i didnt look on ebay, cause i don't really trust buying electronics on ebay. i guess with my budget dwindling as fast as it is, it may be worth taking a chance though. not to mention that memory doesnt 'wear out' so theres less chance it will be DOA

 

[Jay FX4]

i didnt look on ebay, cause i don't really trust buying electronics on ebay.

I wouldn't either.

 

[fastpakr]

eBay is all about doing your homework. Buy from a seller with a solid reputation and a guarantee that it will work. I've been doing it for years. You're purchasing memory for an older system. Why spend $60-80 when you could spend $20 for the same thing and put that money towards something else?

 

[kunar]

eBay is all about doing your homework. Buy from a seller with a solid reputation and a guarantee that it will work. I've been doing it for years. You're purchasing memory for an older system. Why spend $60-80 when you could spend $20 for the same thing and put that money towards something else?

well that particular seller has nearly 200 trouble free transactions on record, with a 100% rating, but they don't offer any sort of guarantee on the parts. i cant believe it's that expensive though, i bought 2 gb ram for my mother's desktop brand new from newegg and it was just over $20. it must be a difference in the type of memory each system uses or something i guess...

 

[fastpakr]

Hang on - I linked you to the wrong type of memory. You don't want ECC.

Edit: I'm not finding what you need for less than about $50 even on eBay. Might as well grab this at NewEgg.

 

[kunar]

Hang on - I linked you to the wrong type of memory. You don't want ECC.

Edit: I'm not finding what you need for less than about $50 even on eBay. Might as well grab this at NewEgg.

that one's ddr400, which according to my spec sheet is incompatible (unless it's backward compliant?) either way, i dont have the budget for something like that right now. i've spent too much on my car and my truck both, now i'm gonna be broke for a while.

 

[fastpakr]

I believe it's backwards compatible. Somebody else can confirm that.

I'll look around the office tomorrow. Might have something floating around.

 

[schmoo]

my nice clean system runs just
fine with 256 meg. more ram
just encourages sloppy habits.

 

[Bruce]

I buy all my computer parts from new egg..

Have you dumped or deleted your prefetch folder?

I dump my cookies cache history temp files and such once a week.

Im running windows XP pro sp2 with only 1 gig of ram with no problems.

 

[Jay FX4]

I buy all my computer parts from new egg.

+1

 

[Mark_88]

the spec sheet link wouldn't work for some reason, but it seems to be looking at the 845GEM MoBo...since you've gotten plenty of advice the only thing I would say is updating the RAM would improve performance of the system considerably...

I was running Win2K with 256 Mb of Ram and it was a dog with an 1800 Ghz processor...when I dumped in another 500 Mb of RAM it improved quite a bit...but I had to buy the older style SDRAM and that stuff is getting very expensive...

 

[fastpakr]

Yep. Even 1GB would probably be plenty for you and make a very noticeable improvement. I checked around the office and can't find any DDR modules. Found a few old 168 pin modules ranging from 32 to 128, but that's it for the older stuff.

Look at this for $25 on eBay or this for $39 at NewEgg. Either will help you out a lot.

 

[mgn465]

when was the last time you ran a defrag or error checking tool ??? also disk cleanup will speed things up.

Cant believe that u still use that version of windows...Dude upgrade it to Vista or atleast xp

 

[Jay FX4]

3.5" floppy = LOL