Computer Hope
Hardware => Hardware => Topic started by: becca32428 on December 21, 2005, 08:52:20 PM
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I have a dell demsion 2350 1.8 ghz processor 768 mb ram 30 gig hard drive and 80 gig slave drive. I recently had to have my hard drive reformated and of course lost every thing, now my computer is so slow it takes forever to load pages...I have the ccleaner zonealarm I also run spybot and adaware. Of course I only have dial up and I know thats always slow but it is way slower than before, also how can I reinstall my sp2 without it taking 75 hours ? Much thanks for any and all help
:'(
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For what it's worth, I picked up SP2 on a disk that came with a computer magazine. It worked perfectly.
I believe that Microsoft will also mail one to you.
*Edit*
Speed? Is your computer protected and free of nasties?
Online Virus Scan and Spyware Scan
http://housecall.trendmicro.com/
Highly recommended second Online Malware Scan
http://www.ewido.net/en/
Being a fresh install means nothing as you can be infected in just seconds.
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I downloaded the ewido scan and it found one problem that adaware or spybot did not ...thanks and yes I do have norton and it is up to date, but it is still running very slow...maybe it is dying :P thanks for the help.
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When you reinstalled did you install the chipset drivers from the Dell site, or from your CD you got with the machine?
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I re-installed from my disks that I got with/computer and it is ntfs and I dont know how to find the allocation units ? THANKS you guys are great! :) oh I am sorry I see I have to do chdisk will try that
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ok ran chkdsk and it was in read only.......I am really a computer dummy so please expalin further thanks
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What about the chipset drivers?