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Upgrading HP Computer
Rhino
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Here is the deal.. My [ill] grandpa has an HP computer and lives apox 8 hours away.
The computer is a Celeron 1.2 with 512 Megs of ram running XP. He has more devices then I've ever seen a person have (3 cameras, 1 web cam, 2 scanners, printer, usb drives, etc, etc).
This is the computer: http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/genericDocument?docname=bph07366&cc=us&dlc=en&lc=en&jumpid=reg_R1002_USEN
For the most part it works good, expect that a lot of times it's slow because of A] (maxing out the poor CPU at 100%) or B] thrashing harddrive (from swapping).
When I was there I did all the "standard" tweak and cleans... disabled a ton of services and startup programs, ran a few spyware checks, tweaked out some xp settings, etc, etc. It's running faster, but still pretty slow. He likes to do photography (hence all the cameras) and image editing which is usually the most sluggish part.
I really don't want to "rebuild" the entire computer, or atleast not re-install; because I know it'll run into driver hell with all his weird device and secondly, I would be doing it over the phone and it's fairly difficult to talk him though an setup.exe install; let alone a full os install, patching and backup/restore. Plus he is ill, so won't want to keep him tied up that long since he's not in the shape for it.
I could swap out the hard drives into a newer computer, but I've never had that turn out well (specially with XP) and fairly certin I'd run into all sorts stability problems.
My aunt is fairly good with computer, or at least swap around hard ware.
Optimally I would like to A) upgrade the CPU and
stuff at least another 512 if not 1024 of ram into it. This would save us from an OS install and something fairly "simple" that my aunt could do it.
The problem with this, is that the site above says that 512MB is the max? Is that right? That seems really low.
Also secondly, anyone know the max support CPU and what socket this uses?
I'm afraid this is probably "maxed out" as far as upgrade, but thinking just stuffing more ram and cpu in there would be "easiest and fastest" solution.
I'm probably end up building him a new one, something that doesn't grind it's self to death when photo editing, but wanted to make sure that there isn't something secret upgrade path for this computer?
The computer is a Celeron 1.2 with 512 Megs of ram running XP. He has more devices then I've ever seen a person have (3 cameras, 1 web cam, 2 scanners, printer, usb drives, etc, etc).
This is the computer: http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/genericDocument?docname=bph07366&cc=us&dlc=en&lc=en&jumpid=reg_R1002_USEN
For the most part it works good, expect that a lot of times it's slow because of A] (maxing out the poor CPU at 100%) or B] thrashing harddrive (from swapping).
When I was there I did all the "standard" tweak and cleans... disabled a ton of services and startup programs, ran a few spyware checks, tweaked out some xp settings, etc, etc. It's running faster, but still pretty slow. He likes to do photography (hence all the cameras) and image editing which is usually the most sluggish part.
I really don't want to "rebuild" the entire computer, or atleast not re-install; because I know it'll run into driver hell with all his weird device and secondly, I would be doing it over the phone and it's fairly difficult to talk him though an setup.exe install; let alone a full os install, patching and backup/restore. Plus he is ill, so won't want to keep him tied up that long since he's not in the shape for it.
I could swap out the hard drives into a newer computer, but I've never had that turn out well (specially with XP) and fairly certin I'd run into all sorts stability problems.
My aunt is fairly good with computer, or at least swap around hard ware.
Optimally I would like to A) upgrade the CPU and
stuff at least another 512 if not 1024 of ram into it. This would save us from an OS install and something fairly "simple" that my aunt could do it.The problem with this, is that the site above says that 512MB is the max? Is that right? That seems really low.
Also secondly, anyone know the max support CPU and what socket this uses?
I'm afraid this is probably "maxed out" as far as upgrade, but thinking just stuffing more ram and cpu in there would be "easiest and fastest" solution.
I'm probably end up building him a new one, something that doesn't grind it's self to death when photo editing, but wanted to make sure that there isn't something secret upgrade path for this computer?
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512 MB memory IS the max. and that's of SDRAM, which is previous to both RDRAM and DDR RAM
socket 370. best you could get is a PIII ~1.1 - 1.4ghz which is still gonna be crap in this day and age.
sorry, you need a rebuild there IMO to get much out of it. you could get a new mobo memory and cpu for like $200 on super budget parts