Silence{BA}
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What kind of RAM?
(Not my comp BTW)
hp pavilion 551w
Pentium 4
Windows XP
1.60 gHz
120mb of ram currently...hehe just imagine how it runs.
Has a Internal SiS 650 Rev 00
8mb lol i think the card was made in the 80's.
Im sure that thats the solution to why this comp runs so slow 
So just need to know what type of RAM.
Couldn't find it n the manual.
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Hehe, 8 MB gfx-card in the 80's would have been awesome. Much more is needed these days for gaming.
Does your friend know what the name and number is on the motherboard.
Can your friend see what it says on the Ram that's already there?
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U will have to open the case
the earlier p4 mbs took sd ram and sometimes had slots for ddr also,
As stated above, that will be 8 meg ram allocated in the bios from the installed ram for the on boards graphic card.
U will have to check out to see if the mb has a apg slot for grapic card....the chances are the onboard graphics is a intel, not supported by most
games, including later vers of DF.
This is basically a over powered office work station machine with budget compents including the mb.
These are commonally sold as "gaming machines" sucking in so many ppl.
Computers are like vechiles, u dont by a compact car to haul long distance freight, or a truck for a school bus.
Go thru the forums here, at least once a week I have customers with the same problems of being ripped off...or put another way, not doing there
homework before spending large amounts of cash on their investment
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Silence{BA}
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I just looked at the chip its DDR ram.
And the comp was like 700 bucks, (moms fiance) doesnt know much about comps.
Just stated the GFX card becuase i thought it was funny hehe
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Last summer I installed DF2 here and unistalled at the end of it.
Now im installing again but iget a error at beginning says I might not be able to uninstall DF2.
Then installation continues freezes at 98% and i have to end the non responsive program.
ANy idea why this happens?
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Silence{BA}
Last summer I installed DF2 here and unistalled at the end of it.
Now im installing again but iget a error at beginning says I might not be able to uninstall DF2.
Then installation continues freezes at 98% and i have to end the non responsive program.
ANy idea why this happens? |
Classic symptom of corrupt cd. Try cleaning it, or getting another
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Agrre with DeadLock...
I'm amazed your PC even runs with XP, and 128 meg of ram....
Get a 512..that'll give you what I have..768, less the 8 for the video.
Have you got an AGP slot? Top slot, brown in color, set back a bit further than the white pci slots...
EE
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Silence{BA}
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I cleaned up the disk install worked out.
The comp cant play DF2 that well lol.
HE wont be doing upgrades on it though lol so it doesnt matter.
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Agree w/ EE, that rig needs more ram m8, go to hp website, and run the serial # , it should give the max specs that the bios will hold. At least try
to double the ram, add 1 more stick. RAM is not that expensive, but will definately give it a good boost. 
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Yeah i'll try to get him to get more RAM :P.
And btw..
Whats the min. that virtual memory should be at.. mine is at 300min 400max mb right now.
How do i get in there to change it again?
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I think a minimum of 1500 MB free harddisk-space is best for the pagefile (swapfile) on XP OS. But the more physical Ram you got the less the HDD
needs to write to the pagefile which is the slowest "memory" a machine got (not on my PC because the pagefile is never used...plus the slowest would
be my brain, lol).
There are different tweaks and trix to make the OS run better for gaming but I run '98 SE OS so I know only of that.
Installing Win '98 SE would probably be much better on a machine like that you described because it will not need that much physical Ram to run the
OS.
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As stated above
"128 is not enough for xp"
"will not upgrade"
format and reload with 98se
u may then be able to 'scrape thru' and themachine in its current state will run heaps faster and stable.
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