Re: Seeking upgrade advise for motherboard change with oem windows
- From: "Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 10:55:43 -0700
Welsh Wizard wrote:
POP- You are right the ram is letting me down
I doubt it. Unless you are running particularly memory-hungry applications
(e. g. editing large graphic imnages or videos), 512MB is sufficiemnt for
most people.
i currently have 512mb
of 2100 speed ddr sdram i think, it takes 10min or so for pc
to start up
My personal view is that the attention many people pay to how long it takes
to boot is unwarranted. Assuming that the computer's speed is otherwise
satisfactory, it may not be worth worrying about. Most people start their
computers once a day or even less frequently. In the overall scheme of
things, even a few minutes to start up isn't very important. Personally I
power on my computer when I get up in the morning, then go get my coffee.
When I come back, it's done booting. I don't know how long it took to boot
and I don't care.
However ten minutes is a very long time. If you do want to address it, it
may be because of what programs start automatically, and you may want to
stop some of them from starting that way. On each program you don't want to
start automatically, check its Options to see if it has the choice not to
start (make sure you actually choose the option not to run it, not just a
"don't show icon" option). Many can easily and best be stopped that way. If
that doesn't work, run MSCONFIG from the Start | Run line, and on the
Startup tab, uncheck the programs you don't want to start automatically.
However, if I were you, I wouldn't do this just for the purpose of running
the minimum number of programs. Despite what many people tell you, you
should be concerned, not with how *many* of these programs you run, but
*which*. Some of them can hurt performance severely, but others have no
effect on performance.
Don't just stop programs from running willy-nilly. What you should do is
determine what each program is, what its value is to you, and what the cost
in performance is of its running all the time. You can get more information
about these at http://castlecops.com/StartupList.html. If you can't find it
there, try google searches and ask about specifics here.
Once you have that information, you can make an intelligent informed
decision about what you want to keep and what you want to get rid of.
--
Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
Please reply to the newsgroup
and for me to get acces to internet after all
programs/internet security have loaded up etc but the 1 GB 2700 ram
i've bought is for the motherboard i want to put in as i seem to have
been unlucky in that my motherboards specifications are quite dated
and don't allow me much scope in upgrading to faster ram or
processor.Will look into the links, cheers..:) Paul
"Pop" wrote:
Welsh Wizard wrote:
Hi,
Having tinkered with upgrading pci cards, various accessories and
wireless internet for my aging pc i wanted to upgrade my current
motherboard to allow a faster processor etc. Having read the
Knowledgebase forums i am now quite unsure about it all as its
given me more q's than answers !!
My computer is 5 yrs old and as i'm studying for a computer
maintenance course i wanted to use my pc as some practical practice
for me, without breaking it !
The operating system is an OEM version of windows xp home saved on
a hard disc partition i believe, and i have a reload/backup cd for
it. The original motherboard became faulty 2/3 yrs ago and was
replaced under warrantly by the seller TIME Computers (who have
since gone bust) , the product key for windows on the case is
different to the findings of the belarc program- i asume it's
because of the motherboard change ? The belarc program has given me
the "current" windows product id and windows product key.
My current processor is an athlon 1400, slow and struggles a lot,
very slow by todays standards and is the reason for the motherboard
upgrade as the current board can only be upgraded to 1800 , so
hardly seems worth it.
I wanted to stay with an MSI "a" socket motherboard like my
current one, and i have bought one in readyness but am now worried
that i am not in a position to do an upgrade due to microsoft rules
over oem xp, or that i may have difficulties with product keys etc
although the computer does seem to be restarting itself quite often
recently, the same problem as the old motherboard before it was
replaced !
Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated, do i go for the
change in motherboard or am i creating BIG problems if i do ?
Many thanks
Paul
Fits, I would think if you think an Athalon 1400 is slow, I would
wonder why. What are you doing? 3-D games and playing DVD movies
maybe?
If not those things, I would make sure you have plenty of RAM. It's
the most cost effective performance enhancement you can do.
With that said,
Be sure you understand the Activation issues. You are heading into
a high risk area regarding licensing issues. I found this page
extremely enlightening.
http://aumha.org/win5/a/wpa.htm
Here is another outstanding reference.
http://michaelstevenstech.com/moving_xp.html
Having walked the road and went from an Athalon 1600+ to a Pentium
Celeron-D 3.3, Good luck and say your prayers. (I don't see much
difference in actual throughput).
Pop
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