Hey, my mother bought an HP 503n computer the other day... I would never buy a computer that wasn't custom, but she liked the package and the price and the look of it.. so she went ahead and bought it. It's the model that has a 1.7 celeron, 128mb ddr ram, 40gig hdd, intel integrated video etc.
Anyways, she wanted me to set the computer up for her. As soon as I had it out of the box and working, I formatted it because it had XP home and also had a sh!t load of installed stuff that was just taking up resources that my mother would never have any use for. She really isn't that great with computers, so all this stuff is confusing to her. Anyways, I formatted it and put XP Pro on it. I installed a fair amount of all the updates that were in windows update.
Anyways, something just doesn't seem right with the computer.. it is kind of hard to explain, but just the feel of it.. like when I right click I see the hour glass for a second, the hdd makes a noise then I get the menu.. (not like it takes long, but it seems to be lagging".. also, when I close out of a program or minimize a lot of times it doesn't just close right away, it shows the window going away from the top to bottom (much like looking at porn on dialup). Anyways, just general stuff like that.. I think the computer should be half quick.. especially since it's brand new and it still has like 98% free space etc.
Also when I installed XP it didn't pick up the integrated video. I used a tool from intel that identifies intel chipsets.. it told me what the chipset was, and I downloaded the appropriate drivers for it. Just incase that may have anything to do with it
Is anyone here familiar with these HP machines? I have a feeling that I haven't installed some drivers or something that may be important.. god knows what they have pre-installed when you buy it.. i'm concerned that i'm missing something. Any info would be appreciated.
And no, there was no recovery disc that came with it. And virtual memory is set to 192. Also, I defraged the drive, and the meny delay in windows is set to '0' in the registry.
Just taking another look here.. I'm noticing some hugh memory leaks or something. Right now I have Internet Explorer, Kazaa and MSN Messenger open. I did a control-alt-delete and it's showing like total 128 megs of ram and available is only 20mb.. it is also showing that it is using 140mb of the 192mb virtual memory. What is going on here? I checked msconfig, not much running at all.. this is a fresh install of XP Pro without all the extras.
Anyways, she wanted me to set the computer up for her. As soon as I had it out of the box and working, I formatted it because it had XP home and also had a sh!t load of installed stuff that was just taking up resources that my mother would never have any use for. She really isn't that great with computers, so all this stuff is confusing to her. Anyways, I formatted it and put XP Pro on it. I installed a fair amount of all the updates that were in windows update.
Anyways, something just doesn't seem right with the computer.. it is kind of hard to explain, but just the feel of it.. like when I right click I see the hour glass for a second, the hdd makes a noise then I get the menu.. (not like it takes long, but it seems to be lagging".. also, when I close out of a program or minimize a lot of times it doesn't just close right away, it shows the window going away from the top to bottom (much like looking at porn on dialup). Anyways, just general stuff like that.. I think the computer should be half quick.. especially since it's brand new and it still has like 98% free space etc.
Also when I installed XP it didn't pick up the integrated video. I used a tool from intel that identifies intel chipsets.. it told me what the chipset was, and I downloaded the appropriate drivers for it. Just incase that may have anything to do with it
Is anyone here familiar with these HP machines? I have a feeling that I haven't installed some drivers or something that may be important.. god knows what they have pre-installed when you buy it.. i'm concerned that i'm missing something. Any info would be appreciated.
And no, there was no recovery disc that came with it. And virtual memory is set to 192. Also, I defraged the drive, and the meny delay in windows is set to '0' in the registry.
Just taking another look here.. I'm noticing some hugh memory leaks or something. Right now I have Internet Explorer, Kazaa and MSN Messenger open. I did a control-alt-delete and it's showing like total 128 megs of ram and available is only 20mb.. it is also showing that it is using 140mb of the 192mb virtual memory. What is going on here? I checked msconfig, not much running at all.. this is a fresh install of XP Pro without all the extras.
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