From: "Creed - 7M3 - Live" <creed7m3live@COLUMBUS.RR.COM> To: <CREED-DISCUSS@WINDUPLIST.COM> Date: Mon 23 Apr 2001 21:52:13 -0400 |
Older Compaqs are notoriously hard to upgrade. I have a Compaq Presario
that I bought in November 1998, and there's very little that can be done to
upgrade it. What I've done with mine is add another RAM chip (bringing it
up to a whopping 64 megs of RAM), and bought a CD rewriter, so I could move
as many files as possible to CDs and run them from there. By moving all my
MP3s, movies, wavs, and picture files to CD, I cleared up over 2 gigs of
space. The only downfall is that CDRWs are expensive... I think I paid $150
for mine... less expensive than buying a new computer, though. You can also
get a secondary hard drive (I think Scott mentioned that in his response)...
right now I have two hard drives in my computer - the 4 gig hard drive that
came with it, and Scott's 1.5 gig hard drive. (They do make some pretty
good sized hard drives that you can insta! ll, though - you can probably get a
30 gig hard drive for about $100). It all kind of depends on what kind of
Compaq you have, what options are available to you. There's some minor
things like those that you can do to improve performance and save space, but
ultimately, it's like having an old Chevette that you're holding together
with duct tape and chewing gum... eventually, technology is going to get so
that you'll pretty much HAVE to buy a new computer. But, those things might
make yours good enough for a couple more years... that's what I'm hoping for
with mine, at least.
Tara
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From: Creed - 7M3 - Live <creed7m3live@COLUMBUS.RR.COM>
To: <CREED-DISCUSS@WINDUPLIST.COM>
Sent: Monday, April 23, 2001 8:51 PM
Subject: Re: ncr-can! anyone help me...I guess you will have to get a bigger hard drive or just get a newer
computer.
More RAM is good. Because that is what running programs use. The disk
space is usually the part in your computer that has a lot of cables
atteched to it (Usually Grey, with a red stripe) and has a power cable
attached to it. (usually coded with a black, red and yellow wire).
Depending on how old your machine is. You might not be able to do much
with it.
To free up space on your hard drive. If you are using windoze 95 or
newer. Go to the control panel and select the "add remove program" ICON
and highlight any program that you don't use and click on the install /
remove button and it will take it off of your computer for you.
If that don't help you get enough free space for you. You might want to
save the important stuff to A: discs and get rid of what is not important.
Don't delete "programs file" f! older files randomly or windows folder
files randomly though. They might make your computer not be able to come
up right if you do though.
Later,
Jim
Rita live2bcreedie wrote:i am in need of some technical advise - i have installed ram in my
computer-
my properties shows the added ram- however my drive is still showing
like 98
% full. of course i did not use my manual for my computer-which i
bought in
8-1999. compaq- can anyone direct me to some tech help? computer dummie
=)aka RITA
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