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kmkrreeves1

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I have a fairly old HP a410e pavillion desktop running windows xp home, that is extremely slow. I have recently had to downgrade its ram to 512MB because of a bad stick, so it is now running on one stick of 512MB when before it was two sticks of 512MB. but when i was trying to find out what was causing the failures i remember something leading me to believe the integrated graphics card was bad but I don't remember what. The system will not go into sleep mode either it immediatly resumes I have tried a system restore from the discs from HP but no luck. Could this problem be the integrated graphics card and if so would buying a PCI graphics card be able to help this problem?
 
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Download and run ccleaner. Also you still may want to run memtest on your remaining memory to make sure that don't have errors as well.
 
I have done some defragging but the hard drive is practically empty anyway, and i don't use this computer i just maintain it for a friend. i know the graphics card has issues because any "3d" screen saver and it freezes and i have to restart. I will do some mem tests, I have a good test disk.
 
I am a total expert in this area.....

Grab a sledgehammer and smash to million pieces. Build your own, then the problem will be solved. :)

If this isn't an option, a lot of work is needed otherwise. Disk clean-up (mentioned above CCleaner). Remove any programs that are not being used (add/remove progams can help you out with that, gives you date last used. If date is over 6 months, chances are you are not going to use it again). Disk De-fragment (I think Jonny was trying to say this but was apparently drunk at time of typing.). This will organize and compress files to run faster. Add more memory. Find out what kind of memory you can add and add more. Update CPU. Don't have to spend a lot to get a decent and better CPU that will help with your problem.

Here's the order i would do these in:

Sledgehammer (if not applicable, go to next)
Add/remove programs
Disk Clean-up
Disk Defragment
At this point you have almost done everything that a reformat would do, but reformating does do little more, so you could reformat the hard drive.
Add memory
Update CPU
 
CrazyMike said:
I am a total expert in this area.....

Grab a sledgehammer and smash to million pieces. Build your own, then the problem will be solved. :)

If this isn't an option, a lot of work is needed otherwise. Disk clean-up (mentioned above CCleaner). Remove any programs that are not being used (add/remove progams can help you out with that, gives you date last used. If date is over 6 months, chances are you are not going to use it again). Disk De-fragment (I think Jonny was trying to say this but was apparently drunk at time of typing.). This will organize and compress files to run faster. Add more memory. Find out what kind of memory you can add and add more. Update CPU. Don't have to spend a lot to get a decent and better CPU that will help with your problem.

Here's the order i would do these in:

Sledgehammer (if not applicable, go to next)
Add/remove programs
Disk Clean-up
Disk Defragment
At this point you have almost done everything that a reformat would do, but reformating does do little more, so you could reformat the hard drive.
Add memory
Update CPU
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try the steps given above!good mate your awesome sledgehammer?lol
 
sledgehammer please

I have recently restored it from hp disks (reformat, restores to factory conditions), and i know it doesn't have much ram, but it still seems slow for 512MB. The processor is a 2GHz which i wouldn't consider low for xp. I read somewhere that upgrading the video card can be better than upgrading ram in some cases even when your not gaming on it. And when the random blue screens of death from the bad ram were occuring and i couldn't find why i almost used a sledge hammer. And i don't really want to put any more money into this old piece of **** because i don't use it. (and the drunk guy telling me to defraggle...defraggler is a better,free defragmenter than windows defragmenter)
 
Any suggestions on brand, size or weight of sledgehammer to use? I dont want to bottleneck my swinging action with a bad sledgehammer.... :)
 
kmkrreeves1 said:
I have recently restored it from hp disks (reformat, restores to factory conditions), and i know it doesn't have much ram, but it still seems slow for 512MB. The processor is a 2GHz which i wouldn't consider low for xp. I read somewhere that upgrading the video card can be better than upgrading ram in some cases even when your not gaming on it. And when the random blue screens of death from the bad ram were occuring and i couldn't find why i almost used a sledge hammer. And i don't really want to put any more money into this old piece of **** because i don't use it. (and the drunk guy telling me to defraggle...defraggler is a better,free defragmenter than windows defragmenter)
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In your case the ram is the bottle neck. 512mb is not enough to make the computer to run smoothly without going to virtual memory.
Cheers.
 
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