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Laptop very slow and sluggish

Right, thanks..
- vizo
- Post #18
- Jun 29, 2006
- Forum: Laptops
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Laptop very slow and sluggish

What would you recommend as far as RAM goes? I have a dedicated audio workstation and gaming machine, this is just going to be for email and simple web editing. Would generic RAM be sufficient? Should I get a name brand? Ive always used semi-generic RAM for my main machines and I have never had...
- vizo
- Post #16
- Jun 28, 2006
- Forum: Laptops
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Laptop very slow and sluggish

I already have, but its fine now. I was just hearing from several people that HP notebooks were notorious for only working with certain brands of drives. I went ahead and purchased a Samsung 40GB/5400RPN/8MB for $55. Ill keep you updated, since youre the only one who has attempted to help me...
- vizo
- Post #14
- Jun 28, 2006
- Forum: Laptops
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Laptop very slow and sluggish

Ive wiped the drive 20 times in a span of 24 hours. Im sick of messing with it. Im going to order some RAM and a new HDD from newegg and see if that fixes it. If not, then Ill get a CPU. If none of that works then Im simply throwing all of this crap out. EDIT: It was the hard drive, it...
- vizo
- Post #12
- Jun 27, 2006
- Forum: Laptops
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Laptop very slow and sluggish

There is an option to reset the BIOS, but unless that also defaults settings not available to the user in the BIOS itself then all its doing is resetting two values that I could do [that havent been touched yet]. Ive tried reformatting with several utils on UBDC and even FDISK.
- vizo
- Post #10
- Jun 27, 2006
- Forum: Laptops
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Laptop very slow and sluggish

A Full Burn In test on Powermax passed... No, I dont. Im in town visiting my parents and they dont have one.
- vizo
- Post #8
- Jun 27, 2006
- Forum: Laptops
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Laptop very slow and sluggish

I havent tried it on another system but I have tried two different copies of XP and they both yield the same result. I tried Powermax but everytime I try to do either the Quick or Full test it says "Please contact Maxtor customer service in your area for more assistance," tells me to hit any...
- vizo
- Post #6
- Jun 27, 2006
- Forum: Laptops
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I tried reinstalling XP and it got stuck @ about 39% this time, and I heard the HDD making this 5 second stuttering sound over and over, as if it was unable to write to that part of the drive, or that the drive was malfunctioning. Im going to go buy a new HDD today to see if that fixes it. It...
- vizo
- Post #4
- Jun 27, 2006
- Forum: Laptops
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Laptop very slow and sluggish

I recently got around to trying to get my sisters old laptop to start working again but Im having a bit of trouble finding out the problem. Its a near 4 year old HP Pavilion ZE1115. The specs, as far as I can remember include a 1.1ghz Duron, 20 gig WD HDD [5400 possibly] and 256MB of PC133...
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- Jun 26, 2006
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- Forum: Laptops

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