Hi Angela: Did these problems come with the installation of Windows ME ?
The computer I have now came with ME and it seemed like it was looking up 5
to 10 times a day, a reboot would fix it. I to had a burner and a cam. I
wrote it off as HP was not as good of a computer as I was told. I received a
XP disk from HP and clean installed it and it was not the same computer when
I got done. It never locks up, I have ask a lot of people if they had
problems with ME and they all had complaints.
If you are on a budget I would go back to Windows 98SE and add more
memory,MIN 128mgb and turn off your screen saver, set your burn speed at 2X
when burning CD's to prevent under buff if that is one of your problems.
If you are not on a budget I would buy a bare bones and move your Hard
drive and burner over to it. Your memory (RAM) won't work on a newer
machine. If you shop you can find SDRAM for about $10.00 per 128mgb stick,
the Bare Bones may come with it. You might check inside your computer to
make sure you have no ISA slot cards in it, the last few newer Bare bones I
helped set up did not have these slots. I noticed on the Wal-Mart web page
they have a computer, no modem or Operating System for $200.00 can't
remember all the details but you do get a 1 year warranty.
This is all my opinion and hope it sparks other input for you.
Good Luck
Rick Schanlaub
----- Original Message -----
From: "Angela Espinoza" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, December 16, 2002 12:19 AM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Trouble shoot
Hi I have a question.
Is there a program to find out if your computer is working properly, I have
run scan disk several times, and defrag, and also the virus scan, but my
computer does not find anything wrong, but it is not working properly, I
installed a 20 GB hard drive and I went to a computer shop and I was told
that I would run in to problems because my computer is old I installed
windows me, I was running before windows 98, I had a 1.99 GB Hard drive now
I have 20GB hard drive, Intel pentium MMX 200 mhz 64 ram and I have
installed a 40x12x48 Sony cd-RW have a digital camera, and a web cam, if
there is a program can you let me know the name so that I can purchase it,
or what type of mother board can I buy and if I have to buy a new computer
what do I need to look for.
Thank you
Angela
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