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| Authored by: qheart on Tuesday, March 23 2004 @ 07:44 AM CST |
Not sure what your problem is with your eMachine PC, but, I also have an eMachine and just upgraded my memory AGAIN, and it all works fine.
I have an eMachine 633ids, which only came with 64 MB. I knew this wouldn't be enough, so the day I purchased puter, I also bought more memory, raising it to 192MB. In my opinion, even 64 MB wasn't enough to run Windows ME, etc... very well. Recently I decided to upgrade to Windows XP Home, wish I hadn't of, and I figured it would suck up quite a few resources, so, I added more memory.
I took the 64MB memory card out, added a 256MB card, moving the 128 MB card over. This gave me a total of 384 MB of memory. My PC recognized it all right off the bat, no problems.
But, getting PC to recognize memory isn't my actual problem. Even though I added 256 MB, before upgrading, my PC is slow now. Once I upgraded to Windows XP Home my computer runs as slow as Christmas. Or it seems so to us anyway. That is my situation. I have done some tweaking that others more 'experienced' in pc's and windows have suggested, which helped some, but it is just still too slow. I am actually considering taking the 128 MB card out and putting in another 256 MB, to make me total of 512MB of memory. Do you think that this would help me at all, or, does anyone have any ideas of something else that may be going on, something that may be slowing my system down. If you have any good suggestions it would be appreciated.
I have a cable modem, which should be fast, but lately it is just slow as Christmas also, it seems, along with PC. I've ran virus scanner on my PC, and a free online scan, to ensure I don't have any viruses, worms, etc.... so that isn't the problem either. Any ideas anyone??
What are some major things that I can get rid of, or disable, that you KNOW Windows runs by default and isn't needed? Something that can help speed me back up again. With my adding the extra 256 MB, I just can't understand why I have slowed down. I don't feel this should be happening and I am wondering if something may be wrong. Help!
Also, what are good signs that I may be fixing to need a new Power Supply? My system has recently, within past couple of months, started to hum, sometimes very loudly. Could this be what is happening, I need a new PS? Could this be a reason for my PC majorly slowing down?? I read above somewhere about integrated video or something. Are all eMachine PC's like that? If so... can I disable that, or change it, or do I have to get another card, etc... before doing this? I know enough about PC's, do all my own installing, work, etc... and I am a woman... but I don't consider myself a real "techi" if you know what I mean. There is still much I would like to learn and would appreciate it if Anyone COULD explain some of this to me in regular, everyday terms, that I could understand!! Please!
Thank you!
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