I'm trying to fix this Dell Inspiron 600m. When I first diagnosed it the OS was so slow and the CPU kept getting ping to 100%, I was able to browse around but it was painfully. I decided to buy more RAM for it since it has only 256 and reload the OS.
I put the new 512 stick, run the Dell rescue to go back to factory state. OS loads get XP logo screen and then a black screen.
Wipe out the drive and reload from XP CD and same problem.
Also twice I got blue screen after XP logo screen.
I removed the new RAM stick just in case and still have problems.
Before I wiped out the drive XP would load and get to the desktop. After a few minutes you could move around, but as soon that i tried to explore or go to my computer the system would ping at 100% and could not get anything else done. I was also able to extra lots of files from the drive to a USB stick using a rescue disk, but lots of files had CRC issues.
I also now have run windows system repair and did chkdsk /r and it got to 71% then went back to 50% and hung.
Could it be the hard drive?
I put the new 512 stick, run the Dell rescue to go back to factory state. OS loads get XP logo screen and then a black screen.
Wipe out the drive and reload from XP CD and same problem.
Also twice I got blue screen after XP logo screen.
I removed the new RAM stick just in case and still have problems.
Before I wiped out the drive XP would load and get to the desktop. After a few minutes you could move around, but as soon that i tried to explore or go to my computer the system would ping at 100% and could not get anything else done. I was also able to extra lots of files from the drive to a USB stick using a rescue disk, but lots of files had CRC issues.
I also now have run windows system repair and did chkdsk /r and it got to 71% then went back to 50% and hung.
Could it be the hard drive?
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