I cannot figure out if this is a software or hardware problem. I would give you more information about the hardware but I cannot get the computer started in under 5-10 minutes then anything I do takes on average 2 minutes including opening a window. Needless to say, it is an extreme test of patience.
What I know is it is an older dell with about 1ghz cpu and 512 mb ram. It runs xp with under 30 process and has very minimal applications installed. It is my fathers computer who only needed it for internet explorer (fantasy teams lol). It does not even have office on it.
Everything was working fine then it just became very unresponsive. It is very streaky though. I ran Burn In Test diagnostics and it said the cd/dvd failed but everything else was ok. That program was very responsive but then I tried to open IE right after that and it took about 5 mins meanwhile I went and closed BIT when I was waiting.
So for that reason I was thinking it is IE but it also takes windows very long to start up. The xp splash stays there loading what seems like forever.
Anyone have any ideas?? Thanks for any suggestions and sorry for the long winded post.
What I know is it is an older dell with about 1ghz cpu and 512 mb ram. It runs xp with under 30 process and has very minimal applications installed. It is my fathers computer who only needed it for internet explorer (fantasy teams lol). It does not even have office on it.
Everything was working fine then it just became very unresponsive. It is very streaky though. I ran Burn In Test diagnostics and it said the cd/dvd failed but everything else was ok. That program was very responsive but then I tried to open IE right after that and it took about 5 mins meanwhile I went and closed BIT when I was waiting.
So for that reason I was thinking it is IE but it also takes windows very long to start up. The xp splash stays there loading what seems like forever.
Anyone have any ideas?? Thanks for any suggestions and sorry for the long winded post.
