manboob

Hi all Thanks for the advice - I'll try a reinstall over the weekend. I could get more RAM as 512 is pretty slow these days tho will try the reinstall first to see if that wakes it up a bit and then maybe more RAM. Thanks for your help MB

Hi All Wonder if I could get any opinions on the following. I have an old (2005) Dell Dimension 5000 with 150gb HD, pentium 4 CPU 3.0 Ghz and 512 RAM. Its a family PC and recently it has started to run very slowly. There is over 100gb space left on the HD. I have defragged it, virus checked it, done the CHK disk thing when it boots up, C.cleaned it, ran spyware and malware and even restored it to an earlier point but has made no difference. It still runs very slow and sounds like the hard drive is working over time all the time even when its just sitting there idle. Thinking about getting rid and replacing as its prob not worth upgrading - but thought I would run it past the experts first if this sounds like appropriate course of action? Thanks for your responses in advance. M.B

Thanks- its one of the rarer usernames I believe - catchy though.

Hi everyone Just stumbled onto this site & looks cool. Manboob - 36 M from Liverpool, UK