I had checked the system information through the control panel and it said it was a 1.2 GHz with 256 Mb of ram. It came with XP sp3, with AVG as an antivirus. It had Norton Antivirus still installed from the factory, but the subscription was out of date and it would not allow me to remove the software. It had PhotoImpression 7 (I think) as well as a few games, nothing high-end like Crysis, more like stuff you would find on the Wal Mart $5 rack.
I say HAD because I started to get the 'Operating System not found.' message on start up. I think the slow load times may have been from a failing hard drive. Is there any way to check and make sure that is the case? I'd rather not spend the money to get a new hard drive only to find out it was something else. Thanks, --Andrew On Dec 7, 7:00 pm, Mohammad AbuShady <[email protected]> wrote: > Well i looked up it's specs.. it says it runs on a 900MHz AMD processor, and > it has like 128MB or 256MB ram.. that's kinda low configuration.. but i > don't think it should be as slow as you said, could you tell us about the > operating system and anti virus and other things that you use on the > computer? > Thanks > > ~Coalwater~ > > On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 1:14 PM, Andrew B <[email protected]>wrote: > > > I got a Compaq Presario 700 laptop really cheap as an internet surfer > > I could carry around and not worry too much about it getting stolen or > > damaged. It has a couple problems. > > > First, I know it's not going to be as fast as my dual core desktop, > > but how slow is normal? It'll take 2-3 minutes to load an image. > > Sometimes it'll take nearly 5 minutes to change folders. It can make > > me wait around 10 minutes to move a small file. > > > Second, I don't think the CD/DVD drive works. It spins up quickly, I > > guess to max drive speed because I can really hear the motor going. > > But then it decides there isn't a disc in there. I tried to burn a CD > > with some music that was on it and it recognised a disc, but it said > > it wasn't formatted correctly and I should format the disc. I did and > > then it no longer recognised the disc. I got the QuickRestore discs > > that came with it as well, and I was going to use them to start fresh, > > but since the drive won't read them, I can't. Could it be a driver > > issue that I can fix to use the QuickRestore or am I going to have to > > do something else? It doesn't have USB 2.0 so I'm not sure how well an > > external CD drive would work. > > > Thanks in advance for any answers! > > --Andrew > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Computer Tech Support" group. > > To post to this group, send email to > > [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]<computer-tech-support%[email protected]> > > . > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/computer-tech-support?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Computer Tech Support" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/computer-tech-support?hl=en.
