Re: Question for Genious:Dell Dimension 8100 Extremely Slow
- From: Malke <notreally@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2005 15:39:10 -0800
Rahman wrote:
> Hello Experts,
> I had one of my friend complain about his Dell Dimension 8100.He
> brought it to me so that I can take a look at it.
> It was a Windows ME / 128 RDRAM/60 Gig /1.6Ghz.
> I was like ME, noooooooooooooo but she was an old lady didnt wanna
> hurt her feelings so figured i will take a look at it and see what I
> can do Issues.
> Everytime it would start it would go striaght to SafeMode and restart
> it self.
> I decided I will just format the whole hard drive and reload the baby
> with XP.Well first I figured I will try my best to recover the data so
> took the hard drive out made it slave and tried to grab the data,but
> couldnt exactly comeup with proper jumper settings so gave up on
> that.So I put the drive as it is and started to reformat the drive and
> load XP and then all the misery started.
> I just put the default jumper settings back on the hard drive ( which
> I
> think was Cable Select)First install took 46 hrs and finally XP came
> up and it was extremely slow,just the first startup took 45 mins,I
> have reformated many computers before but havent seen a behavior like
> this.I was patient I figured I will run windows update everything
> should be OK but couldnt get connected to internet.(Ethernet drivers
> were loaded fine in device manager just this check took 20 mins)
> Then I figured it was the RAM and first time heard abt RDRAM so
> finally found the right vendor and bought the most expensive RAM in my
> life I bought two 256MB chips and now the system has 128+518=640MB RAM
> and guess what system is still running at same speed.
> I have no clue whats going on, I flashed BIOS,ran diagnostics on
> harddrive and memory got sucess results but still system is slow.
> So finally figured I will just reinstall XP again as new memory is
> installed and guess what its been 3 days and its still installing.This
> morning it said 6 mins to finish the install and its almost time for
> me to go home and it still says 4 mins to finish install (Saving
> Settings) I have no idea what in the world is making this system run
> so slow.I ran every diagnostic possible,hard drive looks ok ,memory is
> good, i can see it says memoy 640 in bios.
> Any one had an issue like this with Dell Dimension 8100 ...Crappiest
> system of all time ...
> I was helping a friend by fixing this machine ,thought i will take it
> over the weekend fix it and return it trust me its been 2 months and
> iam still trying to figure out what exactly is wrong with it.
> I can call my friend and junk it but I have put so much time into it
> ,wanna know what the heck is wrong with this machine.
Arrgghhh!!! You should have left it alone! *You* are the one who cr*pped
it up! We'll never know what was wrong with it now. You are right that
you have no "clue what's going on". I usually try to be a lot more
polite than this, but you should not be playing tech with someone
else's machine. Take the machine to a real professional computer repair
shop (not your local version of BigStoreUSA) and give them the RAM you
bought and have them straighten out this poor lady's machine.
Malke
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