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| Thread ID: 110255 | 2010-06-09 10:56:00 | is this a good deal? | goodiesguy (15316) | Press F1 |
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| 1108504 | 2010-06-09 10:56:00 | i just got a Compaq Presario V2000 laptop off a mate for $80. its in good condition. these are the specs: Windows XP Home Edition AMD Mobile Sempron 1.7Ghz ATI Radeon Xpress 200M 128MB 383MB RAM (gonna upgrade) 40GB Hard Drive (10GB wasted for compaq recovery partition) widescreen i need help though. its goes slow and has all these games from gamehouse.com on it (jewel quest etc..) and it goes quite slow. it has MSE on it. should i do a format and reinstall to start from scratch? i recon it would go twice as fast if i formatted it, and i don't like the recovery partition taking up 10gb of space. any ideas? (and i'm thinking of putting windows 7 home premium with own key! on it once i upgrade the ram to at least 1GB) |
goodiesguy (15316) | ||
| 1108505 | 2010-06-09 11:02:00 | Sempron CPU's arent exactly fast | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1108506 | 2010-06-09 11:03:00 | try find a dead laptop with a turion and swap it over, other wise its always going to be a bit slow. | Alex B (15479) | ||
| 1108507 | 2010-06-09 11:04:00 | its a good laptop though. am i safe formatting it? i have run ccleaner on it etc.. the previous owner let his ex-partners boys on it. they go to dodgey game sites. i want to format it and start from scratch. is it safe to do this? | goodiesguy (15316) | ||
| 1108508 | 2010-06-09 11:04:00 | it will be faster than my old compaq evo n410c | goodiesguy (15316) | ||
| 1108509 | 2010-06-09 11:04:00 | What do you mean is it safe to do this? Its the same as doing it on any other pc. | Alex B (15479) | ||
| 1108510 | 2010-06-09 11:07:00 | I would do a factory recovery, then run decrapifier, and then make some recovery discs. Should run like a dream,I wouldn't bother with upgrading the ram unless you had some already to suit,nor would I install W7. If managed properly and kept lean and mean it would make a very nice XP machine, if you try and make it something its not it will be a pig. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 1108511 | 2010-06-09 11:12:00 | ok. i've never done any factory recovery on anything before. all my stuff has been custom built. and my old compaq evo n410c has never had a recovery partition as long as i've had it. i've formatted that fine | goodiesguy (15316) | ||
| 1108512 | 2010-06-09 12:16:00 | So format it then. | Sweep (90) | ||
| 1108513 | 2010-06-09 12:27:00 | so it won't bugger it? (sorry, i never have delt with recovery partitions). what about its factory software, drivers etc.. | goodiesguy (15316) | ||
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