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alfieferenzo84   11-03-2008 at 10:45:39 AM

Can i upgrade the cpu? It has a 1.6 m 479 chip, The thing takes 5 min to turn on even after a fresh xp install.

I upgraded the ram to 2gb matching kingston no luck

the hard drive was the next step as its only 4200 rpm would a 5400 make that much of a difference?

Please let me know or should i just toss it out the window?

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dwellman   11-03-2008 at 04:35:32 PM
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I blame hard drive.

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frozenlead   11-03-2008 at 05:00:41 PM
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I do too. 4200-5200 is a big, big speed boost, if you've ever had the opportunity to see it.

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alfieferenzo84   11-03-2008 at 11:58:11 PM
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i just did the jumper mod so insted of a 1.6 400fsb i have 2.16 ghz and 533 fsb all checked with prime and running good but still this thing takes 5 min to boot.

so i guess i might buy the 80 dollar hd to see if that will help

Any other ideas?

I sell computers for a living and my dells that are p4 1.6 would blow this thing away i dont understand? ANd they only have 512mb of ram...

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dwellman   11-04-2008 at 04:10:28 PM
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You could so a S.M.A.R.T. check on the drive. I bet the drive has met it's max spare sectors or something similar. SpeeFan has a SMART reporting tool, in case you need one.

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alfieferenzo84   11-07-2008 at 01:51:12 PM
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i put the new drive in and loaded xp in 20 min and reboot is only about 25 sec now so i think that was the problem thanks for the help...

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