that means you are Driving a Ferd Pinto...in an era of Super Cars....
and, the 'net at your house is working at the speed of molasses....

get one of your nerd buddies to help you get some RAM.

or, else, take the box apart, find 2 sticks (about the size of a cigar), take them out, and take them to Walmart or best buy, and some geek there will match it up for ya.

post up the number right above your RAM size, that should be your operating speed, you may need a whole new box...

but even a 800mhz machine will cook right along with 1g of RAM in it.

 

He's not sharp enough. He left out the very important instruction to defrag the drive BEFORE you change those settings.
And for an even faster computer, run Linux instead of Windoze.

 

Yep, running Linux is much quicker- especially if you run Gentoo on a dual-Xeon with enough RAM (4Gigs) and a SATA striping array.

 

gee that sounds great!!! This 'puter is only about four years old! (yea i know it was probably out dated before it got delivered) Heres what it says on teh "System" page
Dell 8250
Intel
Pentium 4CPU 2.40GHz
2.39GHz, 256MB of RAM

and we are running Windows XP Home and IE7( the BOSS found FireFox confusing)
I thought this oe wa a lot faster than what we used to have, but compared to the network at the BOSS's job, she is always complaining about how slow it is..

 

Your processing speed isn't too bad Chris. Get a gig of Ram and you'd be suprised at how much that wakes up your machine. 2.4 ghz isn't all that outdated. Sure there are much faster ones out now but you can still do everything that you need with 2.4 ghz. Add the Ram you won't be dissappointed.

 

well, that is the problem, you have basically no RAM

XP needs like 512Mb minimum, just for itself. so with just 256, you are choking it down.

that is a good processor speed of 2.4 ghz.

DELL does that all the time - sells a fast computer that does not have enough RAM to operate, my Dad's Dell was like that.

pull the RAM, take it to Wally World, and get at least 1g of memory.
if you can't find the RAM, post up a pic of the interior.

preferably, buy one stick, so that in a few years, you can buy a second stick.

if you put 2g in now, you will be well satisfied.
RAM is so cheap, and time is so valuable, 2G of RAM would pay for itself by allowing you to do stuff faster.

info on your Motherboard, you can probably print this page, and take it to WallyWorld:

http://www.ascendtech.us/itemdesc.as...LH0678&eq=&Tp=

the 4 black rows (vertical in the picture, 2 pairs) are where the ram goes

 

OK, i was just in mine two days ago repalceing the sound board, those rows are empty Gonna have to make a trip to Best Buy I reckon....

 

Anybody ever mess around with overclocking the processor or graphics card? It use to be a common way to get a lot more smoke, but now-a-days the processors are working just about as fast as I need.

 

Yep. It used to be that you had to mess with jumpers and dip switches to overclock. If it crashed or overheated you went to far. Now it is all done in the bios settings. Pretty cool.