Memory upgrade for an old Dell Precision 490
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Finally upgraded to 1 GByte RAM
Comments (34)You guys are funny! If he was sneaking around my computer, it would be divorce court. My husband and son are terrified to go near my machines (2). Both are used for work and if things got messed up I'd have to fix it. He obsesses over his photos. He belongs to a photo group which meets weekly and they have competitions. They also display their photos in hospitals and libraries. He's actually sold a bunch (shocked). I have no interest in photos except to look at them. He will spend weeks working on one photo. He's not a photographer, just a hobby which he loves to do. The computer he uses is really a great machine. It has taken such abuse, I still stand in awe that it works. Hubby knows absolutely nothing about computers and doesn't want to. Leaves all the problems for me to fix. He has numerous photo programs on the machine and will have them running at the same time. He uses AOL and his photo buddies will be emailing back and forth sending each other photos to critique. Plus he has Media Player booming with all the flashing colors across the screen (he has 6 speakers hooked up to the computer. He's a classical/ jazz lover and copies music to the computer and also burns CDs. All this is going on while he's working in photoshop. Oh, I forgot Quickbooks, that's always running too. Best part, when he's through for the night, he doesn't shut anything down. He shuts the computer down without closing anything. The computer freezes and stays that way until the next day. Or he does a manual shutdown complaining about the machine. Its truly a sad state of affairs. I've given up on him and leave him to this poor, abused machine. Someone tell me why it still works, buried under the table surrounded by speakers and wires? And I'm thinking of adding Ram... Jane...See MoreUpgrading Memory - is there a difference in brands?
Comments (29)this may be the artilce about dial a fix. Broken Windows Fixed Quick with Dial-a-Fix dial a fix is a neat little tool and is used on the support forums, it is generally preferred that it be used with the guidance of support forum teams or from djlizards lunarsoft forum. It does basically what we have been doing by typing in the commands in command line but it does all the typing for you which is good because it is easy to type wrong of course. You can definitely try it just for this application. If you want to check out their forum here is the link Lunarsoft and a link to his wiki about dial-a-fix Dial-a-fix Lynn you could try going ahead to windows update and running it again it might give you the option to uncheck sp3 (to not install) if it does not and looks like it is going to install it you can always just hit cancel. OR another option is to go now and get that sp3 blocker tool I posted the link for in the sp3 thread and install that on your pc so that if it does try to install it that tool should block it....See MoreBought a Dell PC from Costco
Comments (22)Anything is possible at BB. The first one I took back had a corrupt hard drive the second developed so many problems that a very qualified award winning certified Microsoft volunteer who has followed that old computer suspects this is what happened. As for the new one I had to replace. Costco concierge service did diagnostics on the phone with me and came to the conclusion that it needed to be returned because the operating system was not responding at all and perhaps the hard drive wasn't installed. It was plugged in and had a friend go through all of the plugs as was asked of us by the service. I took out all of the sockets in my place and had them replaced to meet the country wide code and also bought new surge protectors for my computer. I also have not put in any Microsoft software. The more I read the more I am not qualified to put it in and take care of the problems that most likely will ensue. I called a Microsoft store. There is a central phone bank in Texas that answers for all the calls that come in to the stores around the country. They could not get the store near me to answer the phone and suspected they were all busy. They tried three times as I stayed on the phone. I am not allowed to have the direct number to the store. There are many menus and the idea is you can help yourself by listening to these menus. I want to know if I can bring my PC and buy some software and have them install it.. This can all cost about the same price as my computer. I would like to talk with Bill Gates. The stores have also got bad reviews around the country. There are some excellent ones too but din't reign. I appreciate the idea of not wanting to go through a learning curve for both an operating system that people complained about so vehemently that they made one revision that will help me but then you have software that is either a rental package or a package deal that has difficulty with Outlook That's okay if I have step-by-step instructions or near an IT person which I always had at work. If Bill Gates is reading this please leave a message....See MoreWhat is the experience of "on-line" time to upgrade W7 to W10?
Comments (60)Nice to see "Happy Campers".. was was hopeful as the load, long time as it was, seemed to load everything, all my history and some rather old drivers, e.g., Palm Desk Top. But over a short time, must be about the start of this thread date, the whole computer has bogged down, not just browser, both Firefox and IE, I'm not using the newer whatever-browser, but even the WiFi interface. I try to remember to shut down my WiFi when I am done, but leaving the computer on. Then I click on the wireless Icon and click connect. It is not a click, click, click operation, long (what 5+ seconds or longer) delay getting to each click. Wasn't that way in the beginning. I use a password as that is port of the IE security for saved passwords, I use a master pass word on Firefox.. suppose that's the problem? Wasn't in the beginning. Just before this exploration and gripping Firefox forgot all, I mean all, its personal data. I did a refresh on Firefox, then a restore on Windows 10, still total amnesia for Firefox. I have backup on a flash drive, but haven't plugged that in to recover. Seems houzz log on survived, must be something at the houzz end, not Firefox memory. On Linux, I used the Ubuntu GRUB to set up the dual boot, and right now I don't recall what the problem is... maybe it too slowed down, maybe there's something wrong with my mental clock too high an expectation. That possibility noted, I did some blogging on the Ubuntu forum, now a member, and there was some agreement on the problem. I have considered using XUbuntu to resurrect a XP Dell desktop that is very sick. But rather than dual boot, thinking using a USB Hard drive as the boot for XUbuntu and leave the Windows boot loader in tack. I think that leads to my too slow peeve. I suppose I may have problems with drivers too with Ubuntu.. I want to run my laser printers for one thing. The one dual boot I have worked "out of the box" with my WiFi....See More- 7 years ago
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