saulat_99

Working on my coworkers commputer. He has a gateway 2.0Ghz P4 computer, 128MB Ram DDR lol, and about 35Gb free space. His computer was crashing, not booting up, not starting in safe mode, running very slow, ect. I tried to install malwarebytes anti malware but could not get it to install I thought from viruses. I reformated with his xp and driver disc. I can't get Windows service pack 2 to install. I then looked again at his ram and saw the low specs. I am advising him to buy the max his system can handle which is 2 512Gb ddr pieces. Before I order this and install it for him is there anything I should check other than the ram? The ram in there is 128 pc2100u. Kinda confused as to the bus speed and what I need to order for him and whether any DDR will do. I just saw one of these computers go for like 10 bucks on ebay lol. It is a gateway Esx 500s.

I am pretty sure the problem was from viruses and lack of RAM. If I might be missing anything please give me some advice, I'd hate to order stuff for him without fixing the problem.

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Intel CPU : Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 2.66GHz, 1333FSB (Dual Core) 4096K
Intel Motherboards : ASUS P5K PLVM G31, 1333FSB,
GPU : 8800 GT OC 512 mb Ram
Sound Cards : AC 97 3D Full Duplex sound card (onboard)
Network Cards : Ethernet network adapter (onboard)
Cases : Nikao Black Neon ATX Case w/ Temperature control, iEEE
Power Supply : Corsair VX 550 Watt
RAM : 4GB RAM
Monitor : 19 inch widescreen Hanns-G
OS : XP Pro Keyboard : Logitech G15/Wireless Mouse Laser 5000