New Hard Drive Needed

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If you are going to reinstall windows, it won't be slow. How has it given up the ghost?

KillerWatt

Lokolo wrote: »

You won't need 2GB, 1GB will be more than enough, 512MB should be enough. Are you sure you need some?

There is a very noticeable difference between 1GB & 2GB of RAM on XP, and if you can't see the difference in day to day use then you are either not pushing the machine hard enough (in which case, 2GB is not needed to start with) or you have a bottleneck elsewhere within the system (eg, cheap crappy motherboard, "economy" RAM, slow HDD, etc).

Donnie

nunnygirl wrote: »

Currently got 120GB, so I'm thinking stick with the same. The size is right for what we need. Price wise, maybe £40-£50 ish?

Thanks Donnie. Do I burn that to a CD once it's downloaded?

No, you run it now in order to make a copy of your Drivers, which you subsequently back up on to a CD.
Once you have reinstalled Windows, if there are any missing Drivers you can pop the CD into the machine in order to assist in their replacement.

If you cannot get your head around that product, you can try Driver Genius Professional 10


Also now...Download, install and run CPU-Z and produce a .txt dump(via the About Tab) which you can post here.

There are just too many cooks on this thread.

nunnygirl

Donnie wrote: »

No, you run it now in order to make a copy of your Drivers, which you subsequently back up on to a CD.
Once you have reinstalled Windows, if there are any missing Drivers you can pop the CD into the machine in order to assist in their replacement.

If you cannot get your head around that product, you can try Driver Genius Professional 10

Downloaded the Driver Genius Program instead


Do you want all the cpu_z log?

KillerWatt wrote: »

There is a very noticeable difference between 1GB & 2GB of RAM on XP, and if you can't see the difference in day to day use then you are either not pushing the machine hard enough (in which case, 2GB is not needed to start with) or you have a bottleneck elsewhere within the system (eg, cheap crappy motherboard, "economy" RAM, slow HDD, etc).

Currently only have 512mb installed, want to upgrade it to either 1GB or 2GB. Have been told by 2 people now to get 1GB so that is what I will use

closed wrote: »

If you are going to reinstall windows, it won't be slow. How has it given up the ghost?

It keeps clicking and blue-screening. According to all the information I have been reading it is indicating a problem with the hard drive which may fail

nunnygirl

CPU-Z TXT Report

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Binaries

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CPU-Z version 1.55 Processors

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Number of processors 1 Number of threads 1 APICs

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Processor 0 -- Core 0 -- Thread 0 0 Processors Information

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Processor 1 ID = 0 Number of cores 1 (max 1) Number of threads 1 (max 1) Name AMD Athlon 64 LE-1600 Codename Orleans Specification AMD Athlon(tm) Processor LE-1600 Package Socket AM2 (940) CPUID F.F.3 Extended CPUID F.5F Brand ID 2 Core Stepping F3 Technology 90 nm Core Speed 2210.2 MHz Multiplier x FSB 11.0 x 200.9 MHz HT Link speed 1004.6 MHz Stock frequency 2200 MHz Instructions sets MMX (+), 3DNow! (+), SSE, SSE2, SSE3, x86-64, AMD-V L1 Data cache 64 KBytes, 2-way set associative, 64-byte line size L1 Instruction cache 64 KBytes, 2-way set associative, 64-byte line size L2 cache 1024 KBytes, 16-way set associative, 64-byte line size FID/VID Control yes Max FID 11.0x Max VID 1.300 V K8 Thermal sensor yes K8 Revision ID 5.3 Attached device PCI device at bus 0, device 24, function 0 Attached device PCI device at bus 0, device 24, function 1 Attached device PCI device at bus 0, device 24, function 2 Attached device PCI device at bus 0, device 24, function 3 Thread dumps

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CPU Thread 0 APIC ID 0 Topology Processor ID 0, Core ID 0, Thread ID 0 Type 02002001h Max CPUID level 00000001h Max CPUID ext. level 80000018h Cache descriptor Level 1, I, 64 KB, 1 thread(s) Cache descriptor Level 1, D, 64 KB, 1 thread(s) Cache descriptor Level 2, U, 1 MB, 1 thread(s) CPUID 0x00000000 0x00000001 0x68747541 0x444D4163 0x69746E65 0x00000001 0x00050FF3 0x00000800 0x00002001 0x078BFBFF 0x80000000 0x80000018 0x68747541 0x444D4163 0x69746E65 0x80000001 0x00050FF3 0x000004C3 0x0000001D 0xEBD3FBFF 0x80000002 0x20444D41 0x6C687441 0x74286E6F 0x5020296D 0x80000003 0x65636F72 0x726F7373 0x2D454C20 0x30303631 0x80000004 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x80000005 0xFF08FF08 0xFF20FF20 0x40020140 0x40020140 0x80000006 0x00000000 0x42004200 0x04008140 0x00000000 0x80000007 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x0000003F 0x80000008 0x00003028 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x80000009 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x8000000A 0x00000001 0x00000040 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x8000000B 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x8000000C 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x8000000D 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x8000000E 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x8000000F 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x80000010 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x80000011 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x80000012 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x80000013 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x80000014 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x80000015 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x80000016 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x80000017 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x80000018 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 MSR 0x0000001B 0x00000000 0xFEE00900 MSR 0xC0010114 0x00000000 0x00000000 MSR 0xC001001E 0x00000000 0x00000053 MSR 0xC0010015 0x00000000 0x02000000 MSR 0xC0010042 0x310A120C 0x0A0E020E MSR 0xC0010041 0x00000001 0x00000C0E Chipset

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Northbridge NVIDIA MCP61 rev. A3 Southbridge NVIDIA MCP61 rev. A2 Memory Type DDR2 Memory Size 512 MBytes Channels Single Memory Frequency 245.6 MHz (CPU/9) CAS# latency (CL) 4.0 RAS# to CAS# delay (tRCD) 4 RAS# Precharge (tRP) 4 Cycle Time (tRAS) 12 Bank Cycle Time (tRC) 17 Command Rate (CR) 2T Memory SPD

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DIMM # 1 SMBus address 0x50 Memory type DDR2 Module format Regular UDIMM Manufacturer (ID) Micron Technology (2C00000000000000) Size 512 MBytes Max bandwidth PC2-4300 (266 MHz) Part number 4HTF6464AY-53EE1 Serial number D21F3CE6 Manufacturing date Week 40/Year 07 Number of banks 1 Data width 64 bits Correction None Nominal Voltage 1.80 Volts EPP no XMP no JEDEC timings table CL-tRCD-tRP-tRAS-tRC @ frequency JEDEC #1 3.0-3-3-9-12 @ 200 MHz JEDEC #2 4.0-4-4-12-16 @ 266 MHz DIMM # 1 SPD registers 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 0A 0B 0C 0D 0E 0F 00 80 08 08 0D 0A 60 40 00 05 3D 50 00 82 10 00 00 10 0C 08 18 01 02 00 01 50 50 00 00 3C 28 3C 2D 80 20 25 37 10 22 3C 1E 1E 00 06 3C 7F 80 1E 28 00 00 30 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 12 27 40 2C 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 34 48 54 46 36 34 36 50 34 41 59 2D 35 33 45 45 31 20 20 01 00 07 40 D2 60 1F 3C E6 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 70 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 80 FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF 90 FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF A0 FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF B0 FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF C0 FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF D0 FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF E0 FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF F0 FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF Monitoring

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Mainboard Model MS-7309 (0x000001A0 - 0x005F1C39) LPCIO

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LPCIO Vendor Fintek LPCIO Model F71882F LPCIO Vendor ID 0x1934 LPCIO Chip ID 0x541 Config Mode I/O address 0x4E Config Mode LDN 0x4 Config Mode registers 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 0A 0B 0C 0D 0E 0F 00 FF FF 00 FF FF FF FF 04 FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF 10 FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF 20 05 41 20 19 34 00 80 5E 40 00 00 00 08 0E 00 00 30 01 FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF 40 FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF 50 FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF 60 0A 00 FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF 70 00 FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF Register space LPC, base address = 0x0A00 Hardware Monitors

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Hardware monitor Fintek F71882F Voltage 0 3.44 Volts [0xD7] (+3.3V) Voltage 1 1.25 Volts [0x9C] (CPU VCORE) Voltage 2 1.98 Volts [0x7C] (VIN2) Voltage 3 1.45 Volts [0x7B] (VIN3) Voltage 4 5.09 Volts [0x79] (+5V) Voltage 5 12.23 Volts [0x8B] (+12V) Voltage 6 1.84 Volts [0x73] (VIN6) Voltage 7 3.44 Volts [0xD7] (VSB3V) Voltage 8 3.15 Volts [0xC5] (VBAT) Temperature 0 28°C (82°F) [0x1C] (TMPIN0) Temperature 1 34°C (93°F) [0x22] (TMPIN1) Fan 0 3268 RPM [0x1CB] (FANIN0) Fan PWM 0 50 pc [0x80] (CPU) Fan PWM 1 60 pc [0x99] (System Fan 1) Fan PWM 2 50 pc [0x80] (System Fan 2) Fan PWM 3 50 pc [0x80] (System Fan 3) Register space LPC, base address = 0x0A00 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 0A 0B 0C 0D 0E 0F 00 FF 03 00 01 FF FF FF FF FF FF 00 00 55 4C 00 00 10 00 00 00 00 FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF 20 D7 9B 7C 7B 79 8B 73 D7 C5 FF FF FF FF FF FF FF 30 FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF 40 FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF 50 FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF 03 04 10 19 34 FF 60 00 00 00 00 FF FF 02 78 00 00 FF 0E 40 24 FF 08 70 FF FF 1C FF 21 FF 80 FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF 80 FF FF 46 46 64 55 55 46 FF FF FF FF FF FF A8 FF 90 00 0E 0E 00 25 FF 55 FF 41 24 FF AA 55 55 FF 0A A0 01 CB 00 80 00 A7 3C 32 28 1E FF D9 B2 99 80 0D B0 0F FF 00 99 03 FF 3C 32 28 1E FF D9 B2 99 80 0E C0 0F FF 00 80 03 FF 3C 32 28 1E FF D9 B2 99 80 0F D0 0F FF 00 80 03 FF 3C 32 28 1E FF D9 B2 99 80 0F E0 FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF F0 00 00 00 00 00 00 3B FF 00 31 FF 00 FF FF FF FF

nunnygirl

Double post

Donnie

You have 512MB DDR PC2-4300 installed. Not unusual for Crucial to only report what they actually have in stock, rather than what is installed.

Perhaps you are mixing the description DDR2-533 with PC2 4300, as they are one and the same.
It appears your Motherboard can support up to PC2-6400.

So you can buy a matching 512MB PC2 4300 or a single 1GB PC2 6400. So yes, a single 1GB PC2 6400 will be faster than 2 x 512MB PC2 4300.

Don't spend too much on the thing.

nunnygirl

Each memory slot can hold DDR2 PC2-6400, DDR2 PC2-5300 with a maximum of 2GB per slot


So purchase a 1GB PC2-6400 and I should be faster once the new hard-drive is in?

Donnie

Has the Driver Genius Program worked in backing up the Drivers or does the trial version limit you from this option?

nunnygirl

Yes, has successfully backed up the drivers