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boy9enius08

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Ok my aunt got this pc donated from umbc ... they whiped the harddrive and when i got it i put Windows Xp on it.. IT TOOK OVER 5 hours to install XP.. WHY? and this pc is runnin a Pentium 4 processor 2.40GHZ right and its got 1 Gig of ram.. i cant see y its runnin so slow when its got all this speed behind it .. can anyone help..?
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Jack Hackett

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Did you check the drive for errors? could be a duff and failing hard drive.
Damaged XP CD
Dodgy CD drive
Duff memory
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run a memtest and tell us how it went, it was donated so who knows what kind of stuff it had on it or happened to it


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