my computer keeps saying i have low disk space help!

Money_Grabber13579

Lokolo wrote: »

Do you have any friends or family who know a bit about computers?

He has given you a single core 1.8GhZ processor. Which is a good few years old.
The RAM, you have 1GB which it very low nowadays, although can handle XP.

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He is nicking your old parts, selling them, and replacing them with cheaper/worse parts I suspect.

Yes, it looks like that is exactly what he's doing. The processor you've got was released almost 3 years ago. It's a cr*p processor anyway by todays standards. The memory is very poor.

Price wise:

Processor = £30 max
Memory = £15 max
Fan = c£30 max

So £100 labour? What a rip off.

JasX

irishgirl62 wrote: »

my drive is cracked which is why it is showing low memory

This completly technically infeasible, this guy is scamming you. It is not possible to 'crack' a hard drive or do anything really to damage it that would reduce its capacity and have it have it report a different model number. They either work (at full capacity) or don't work at all.

If you're very lucky he's unessairly changed your processor and RAM for something of a similar spec. From the sounds of things he's stolen your original hard disk and replaced it with a near useless brick. I'd be very worried something untoward might have happened to your other hardware so definitely try to check what you originally had vs whats currently installed.

Its looking like you've paid £185 for the pleasure of having anything worth stealing from your PC taken by this guy. If you can find your original paperwork/some indication of what you had to begin with and can follow peoples tips on this site to check whats installed now you might scrape together enough evidence to get the police involved.... or at least trading standards

JasX

Lokolo wrote: »

Do you have any friends or family who know a bit about computers?

He has given you a single core 1.8GhZ processor. Which is a good few years old.
The RAM, you have 1GB which it very low nowadays, although can handle XP.

Hold your horses, we don;t know if thats the original sticker from when she originally bought it or if its a sticker the guy from the shop added, we also don;t know what CPU is in the box now

Money_Grabber13579

JasX wrote: »

Hold your horses, we don;t know if thats the original sticker from when she originally bought it or if its a sticker the guy from the shop added, we also don;t know what CPU is in the box now

No, that's what is in the box now. It's come from the system properties, so the computer is reporting that's what is present.

Lokolo

JasX wrote: »

Hold your horses, we don;t know if thats the original sticker from when she originally bought it or if its a sticker the guy from the shop added, we also don;t know whats in the box now

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irishgirl62 wrote: »

or is is this one?

430@180GHZ
1.8GHZ 0.99 OF RAM

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If you google 430 1.8GhZ its a Intel Celeron.

Even if they were the originals, he has still charged the OP for a new processor and RAM which they won't have got.

Money_Grabber13579

irishgirl62 wrote: »

its a compaq presario
the sticker is still on it it says 2800+ (2.08GHZ)

That'll be the processor name you've given us. Is it a desktop? If so, there should be a model number in small writing somewhere on that label. Possibly SR1234UK. It will be different letters and numbers, but that's the kind of thing you're looking for.

-TangleFoot-

The sticker probably refers to the Athlon XP 2800+ which runs at ~2.2GHz. The replacement appears to be a Celeron 430, so the motherboard must've been swapped out as well.

irishgirl62

Money_Grabber13579 wrote: »

Did it get very warm? Did the fan run all the time? Or not at all?

It could've been something a simple as a virus.

It was hardly likely that the processor would need replacing because of that. And that's the expensive bit! (By the way, do you still have your computer, or did you leave it with them again? If you still have it, can you look up what the processor is by right clicking my computer and going to properties. Also post up how much RAM it states on the same screen.)

I am not sure if the fan ran or computer gets warm

irishgirl62

i found the number it was on the back of the computer it is S0000

Money_Grabber13579

Lokolo wrote: »

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If you google 430 1.8GhZ its a Intel Celeron.

Even if they were the originals, he has still charged the OP for a new processor and RAM which they won't have got.

Oh they've got a new processor all right. But they've replaced an AMD 2800+ 2.08Ghz with an Intel celeron 1.8Ghz. Sounds like a downgrade even before I do any research on it!