blackshoe Posted November 25, 2011 Report Share Posted November 25, 2011 "Stick" is slang. Yeah, it's a circuit board. A small one. :) Replace them both. Seriously. If your hard drive has at least 10 GB of free space, and you've defragged recently, so the space is contiguous, you shouldn't get those messages anymore after upgrading your RAM. If it still doesn't suit you, give the computer to your grandkids and buy a newer one. B-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Free Posted November 26, 2011 Report Share Posted November 26, 2011 Adding extra RAM doesn't help much with old computers. Usually you even need to reinstall your OS to optimize the RAM usage! Older Windows versions use half of the RAM, whatever quantity of RAM you install. Installing 2GB means you'll have 1GB free memory... Btw, which operating system do you use? Do you know some Linux freak who might be willing to install Linux to see if this is faster? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerben42 Posted November 26, 2011 Report Share Posted November 26, 2011 Given that Germany is close to KO in terms of net stability, I will look into the uninterruptable power supply also. Anyway, I am also considering a new computer and I'm eyeing with the iMac. For my TD stuff I already have an old laptop that simply works and will continue to work exactly for that function, but my home PC is just yawwwn... I agree that Macs are not cheap (especially in Europe, what's up with that anyway?), but they are powerful and if you want something similar with everything included from Dell or whatever you are looking at €900 also so why not spend the extra €150 and have something nice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onoway Posted November 27, 2011 Author Report Share Posted November 27, 2011 Given that Germany is close to KO in terms of net stability, I will look into the uninterruptable power supply also. Anyway, I am also considering a new computer and I'm eyeing with the iMac. For my TD stuff I already have an old laptop that simply works and will continue to work exactly for that function, but my home PC is just yawwwn... I agree that Macs are not cheap (especially in Europe, what's up with that anyway?), but they are powerful and if you want something similar with everything included from Dell or whatever you are looking at €900 also so why not spend the extra €150 and have something nice. If only the prices were that close! Looking up all the leads I could to various places, it turns out that I can get a new Toshiba or Asus laptop that will do anything I am likely to ask it to do for somewhere between $450-900 but even a refurbished Mac will cost me more than twice that. The thing is that I want a 17 inch screen and even the refurbished ones run around $2000 and up. No way I can justify spending that. Found out that nobody in this neck of the woods has the memory thing ( computer is too old, they say). One place offered to sell me a board they thought MIGHT word for $60 and I could take it back if it didn't. Another quoted me $100 to bring one in but that's not even getting it installed. They also told me that I can only change one out anyway,the other is not removeable. They ALSO told me that the parts number I got from the analysis site was wrong. It all got sorta complicated and messy. It may well be that they were just trying to sell me a new one but for sure nobody is admitting to having the memory board I need. So it's back to getting a new laptop after all, will just keep this one as a backup file, sorta, for the links that I want to keep. Thank you all for your help and advice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenberg Posted November 27, 2011 Report Share Posted November 27, 2011 A 17 inch entry in your comparison shopping endeavor: http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?oc=fndoy56h&c=us&l=en&s=dhs&cs=19&model_id=inspiron-17r-n7110& Quite possibly you can do better, but maybe not a whole lot better. I am not a great shopper, but I'm usually pretty fast. My wife is the fastest shopper I have ever seen. She gets in and out of a store faster than I do. That's on the now rare occasions when she goes into one. I think she did half our Christmas shopping Thursday evening after the company left, and the other half this morning, all online. Anyway, good luck with the new gadget. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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