Slow pc

vinylmusic

I have an AMD Athlon XP2700+ 2.16Ghz running XP SP2
It had 512mb RAM but was only registering 380
I added another 512 but its only registering 896Mb
Someone suggested that it had something to do with the graphics card and memory allocation

Defrag was well overdue but was excruciatingly slow
I also ran ccleaner

Its still very slow and IE wont load up

Has anyone any ideas what else could be done?
Thanks

Schneaky

If you still have all the original disks for your software, then make a backup of all your data, emails, favourites, etc. then format your hard disk and reinstall everything.

I find that doing that every 6 months gets rid of all the junk that clogs up the system. Also if you reinstall only the things you need and not everything you think you may ever use, that will save space/memory. It is a pain and time consuming, but add up all the time waiting for things to load....

Hope this helps.

vinylmusic

Schneaky wrote: »

If you still have all the original disks for your software, then make a backup of all your data, emails, favourites, etc. then format your hard disk and reinstall everything.

I find that doing that every 6 months gets rid of all the junk that clogs up the system. Also if you reinstall only the things you need and not everything you think you may ever use, that will save space/memory. It is a pain and time consuming, but add up all the time waiting for things to load....

Hope this helps.

Thanks for your suggestion but I already thought of that and find such action a little drastic. I think that getting the original disc for that machine a little difficult anyway. I was hoping to repair rather than format

gremlin666_2

Seems to me like one of your 512 memory might have a damaged cells. Try replacing the original 512 aswell it worked for me. As for formating hard drive every 6 months seems a little pointless to me.

CHR15

There is nothing wrong with your memory. It is supposed to be like this.

You have an onboard graphics card with 128MB of System Ram allocated to it (subtract 128 from your installed Ram).

For the speed issue...

Try the normal AV scans, Spyware scans, defrags, more info here:

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=133269

superscaper

There's only so much "cleaning" and "repairing" you can do. Reinstalling from scratch is not that drastic. I mean you should be backing your stuff up anyway so really it should only involve installing XP and neccessary apps and then copying back your files and settings.

gremlin666_2

CHR15 wrote: »

There is nothing wrong with your memory. It is supposed to be like this.

You have an onboard graphics card with 128MB of System Ram allocated to it (subtract 128 from your installed Ram).

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=133269

Just to point out that not all graphics cards use system ram. Most now have their own stand alone memory.