I'm checking out a friend's Dell Dimension 3000 as a potential backup computer for myself, but I'm not sure what's going on with it... the computer has been abused, i.e. lots of music programs, multiple music files, tons of viruses, etc, etc... When I got the computer yesterday it was running so slow I could barely clear anything off of it... It took almost 30 minutes just for Windows to load up... I planned on replacing the OEM 80GB HD with 2 Western Data 80GB HDs anyway, so I went ahead and did that, then attempted to reinstall XP SP2... Everything started out fine, but after the program started loading files everything slowed to a crawl... after about 1 1/2 hours I was stuck at 41%... I tried it a few more times with the same result... finally, I started it again and went to sleep... This morning I wake up a find that it passed the file sending phase and was ready to finalize the installation process... I started that, and as usual, it said 39 minutes to completion... about an hour later, it's still at 39 minutes!!! I tried this several more times, same result... can't get past it... does anyone have any ideas? Could it be the RAM? The processor? I dunno... Also, I've tried running a single (and new) WD HD, with the same results, and I know it's not the disc, as I just reinstalled XP on the PC I'm using now...
The computer is a:
Dell Dimension 3000
256 mB RAM
Celeron processor
2 80GB Western Data HDs
The computer is a:
Dell Dimension 3000
256 mB RAM
Celeron processor
2 80GB Western Data HDs