Vista Still Running C*ap With 4gb Ram

Legacy_user

I updated my ram and Vista is still running horrible, I think its my processor thats the problem, Its a Celeron 575 2.0ghz, It runs like XP does with 512mb ram, If you do more than one thing at once its sluggish even with 4gb ram, buring DVD's etc is a pain, Games like second life become unresponsive, I have dual booted with XP and it flies, Should I just stick to XP? The problem however with XP is it only sees 2.5gb ram, but even at that, it is a flying machine.

Any adice?

danmanchester

First, is your Vista 64bit? Secondly, you may have to update your BIOS which is what I had to do when I upgraded to 4gb.

Mr_Yoda

Just out of interest, I dont mean to highjack a post, but how do update your BIOS? Had my PC for 4 years now and never updated it.

Airwolf1

Your PC manufacturer's website for one.

danmanchester

Mr_Yoda wrote: »

Just out of interest, I dont mean to highjack a post, but how do update your BIOS? Had my PC for 4 years now and never updated it.

Well in my case..it was a pain! My motherboard is an Asus A8n-sli and after a lot of forum trawling managed to find a link for a 64bit AsusUpdater (couldn't find it on Asus' own website!) application that runs within windows, once I'd updated the bios the 4gb ram ran smoothly.
Just go to your motherboard manufaturers website and look for support/downloads for your particular model. By the way, if your pc is running fine I wouldn't advise updating bios!

Mr_Yoda

danmanchester wrote: »

Well in my case..it was a pain! My motherboard is an Asus A8n-sli and after a lot of forum trawling managed to find a link for a 64bit AsusUpdater (couldn't find it on Asus' own website!) application that runs within windows, once I'd updated the bios the 4gb ram ran smoothly.
Just go to your motherboard manufaturers website and look for support/downloads for your particular model. By the way, if your pc is running fine I wouldn't advise updating bios!

Thanks, i'll give at a miss. It's a Dell PC and i'm not too much a technie type (probably end up messing it up).

BillScarab

Updating your BIOS should only really be done to fix a specific problem, it can be a good way of trashing your motherbopard if you do it wrong. If things are working OK generally it's best to leave it alone.

nirelandguy what scores does the vista experience rating thing give each of your components? That may give you an idea what the bottleneck is.

euphoricstate

What is the FSB of the processor ? Many people think that putting a faster CPU in there computers and adding more memory will speed up there computer but in theory you need the right combination.

It could be possible that your CPU has a small FSB or your memory is wrong.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Front_side_bus

Also take a look at your resources usage by using task manager to which application is using the most.

euphoricstate

Mr_Yoda wrote: »

Just out of interest, I dont mean to highjack a post, but how do update your BIOS? Had my PC for 4 years now and never updated it.

There is no requirement to Flash your BIOS unless you really need to and its something you should never do unless you know what you are doing. Always backup your BIOS before Flashing it.

System

Its not 64bit, The details I could find out bout the processor are

Intel® Celeron® 575 (2.0 GHz, 1 MB, 667 MHz)

basmic

Mr_Yoda wrote: »

Thanks, i'll give at a miss. It's a Dell PC and i'm not too much a technie type (probably end up messing it up).

Dead easy, in your case - look at the back of the machine for the System Tag (6 digits long (if I remember right) of letters and/or numbers).

Enter the Service Tag into Dell's support site (link) and in the download search choose BIOS.

Note the version and download it (don't run it yet). Restart the computer, and as it restarts look for a similar number to BIOS version you noted - ie, you might have the option to install A08 over your A06 version of the BIOS. If so, then install the BIOS - otherwise, if the numbers match, leave it be.