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I cought the virus, twice. First tme, paid to have it cleaned out. They gave it back. Virus was in there, got loose, and messed up machine.
NOW, the important part. At that time, I had only 64MB RAM, and without knowing to close all other programs, I opened wintotal/alamode, and it ran fine, although, with a lot of programs running, it sometimes froze up on me. I figured I'd need more memory soon. But, IT RAN>
Take the machine back to computer "experts", More $$$$. They say, you need more memory. The system was running about 60%. OK. pay more. add up to 194MB RAM. Use the computer & wintotal. It runs slow, and NOW, I get a low memory message. Go back to "experts", more $$, you need more memory. Installed up to 256MB Ram, AND a new hard drive.. to eliminate bugs altogether. Then they re-installed my programs onto new hard drive. Clean disks, scandisks, close out all other programs, and with wintotal open, it runs at about 45% system resources available. If I leave other programs open, it runs very very sloooooow.
I believe something else is wrong. I have the standard windows 98 MS programs that come with, a MLS connection program, a virus program, and wintotal. Others I know are running on 64 or 128 MB RAM. Mine did before !!!! Other folks say with 256 MB Ram, there's no reason the system percentage should be so low. It should be at 75 or 80 percent of resources.
I noticed that they installed the 2 128MB chips that were rated PC 133 each. The HP manual says they should be PC 100 each. Experts say it doesnt matter.
Anyone with the knowledge or experience, suggestions, please help. Thanks,
Rontax@earthlink.net
NOW, the important part. At that time, I had only 64MB RAM, and without knowing to close all other programs, I opened wintotal/alamode, and it ran fine, although, with a lot of programs running, it sometimes froze up on me. I figured I'd need more memory soon. But, IT RAN>
Take the machine back to computer "experts", More $$$$. They say, you need more memory. The system was running about 60%. OK. pay more. add up to 194MB RAM. Use the computer & wintotal. It runs slow, and NOW, I get a low memory message. Go back to "experts", more $$, you need more memory. Installed up to 256MB Ram, AND a new hard drive.. to eliminate bugs altogether. Then they re-installed my programs onto new hard drive. Clean disks, scandisks, close out all other programs, and with wintotal open, it runs at about 45% system resources available. If I leave other programs open, it runs very very sloooooow.
I believe something else is wrong. I have the standard windows 98 MS programs that come with, a MLS connection program, a virus program, and wintotal. Others I know are running on 64 or 128 MB RAM. Mine did before !!!! Other folks say with 256 MB Ram, there's no reason the system percentage should be so low. It should be at 75 or 80 percent of resources.
I noticed that they installed the 2 128MB chips that were rated PC 133 each. The HP manual says they should be PC 100 each. Experts say it doesnt matter.
Anyone with the knowledge or experience, suggestions, please help. Thanks,
Rontax@earthlink.net