Greetings Russ, thanks for the  quick response!
It's a 9y Del Inspiron, I had ordered with 8 gigs I wouldn't be surprised
if the root of the problems are it having feet issues.

On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 9:01 PM, Russell Standish <[email protected]>
wrote:

> You didn't say how much RAM you have, but if its 1GB or less, then
> what you report would be unremarkable.
>
> Check to see how much RAM your OS thinks you have. If you are running
> Windows, you find this info from the hardware widget under control
> panel, or the properties entry on the context menu of "Computer",
>
> If the machine reports less RAM than is physically installed, then
> possibly some of the memory modules have moved and need reseating
> (this can happen when you expose the computer to a shock when moving
> it, or even over time due to thermal stresses). If so, then it's a
> quite simple fix to open you computer up and reseat the memory by
> pulling the modules out and replacing them - just do so carefully,
> don't try to force things as that's when you break them.
>
> Cheers
>
> On Fri, Oct 03, 2014 at 07:47:56PM -0600, Gillian Densmore wrote:
> > Anyone have some ideas what'd cause a Del to constantly only say it's at
> > 80% ram use with only firefox open.I ask because recently the damn thing
> > when I run firefox slows to a crawl,  ctr-shift-esc says it has 80% of
> the
> > ram used, and 10% of the CPU used.
> > When I tride googling nothing stood out.
> > I just need the damn thing to stay together long enough to be able to
> > backup.
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