I have an old pent.111 : 15 gig hd : 320 mem.
I just loaded win xp. It was loading fine up till the last 5 min. which took 30 min. However, it finnished loading. Whenever I try to load anything or even play pinball it may take 5 minutes to load if at all. If I ctrl alt del,
It takes a long time to go into the task manager. I can't run any programs. It does load right into desktop. Internet works.
I ran memtest and everything was good. So I would asume the processor is good. I would assume it could be a number of things.
Possible windows didn't load right. Maybe a faulty Hard drive. Power supply ? I wouldn't think it was the board. Any ideas
belikemike -1 Junior Poster
lasher511 185 Veteran Poster
The problem is that you have an old computer that was never meant to run windows XP.
toolazy2work 0 Newbie Poster
to minimize the amount of items running at the start up go to
start->Run->msconfig
go to the startup tab and disable everything isnt related to windows or isnt important.
Hope it Helps,
Nick
belikemike -1 Junior Poster
Problem solved. Formated and reloaded xp and it now runs fine.
A pentium 3 with enough memory will run xp with no problems.
thanks.
Be a part of the DaniWeb community
We're a friendly, industry-focused community of developers, IT pros, digital marketers, and technology enthusiasts meeting, networking, learning, and sharing knowledge.