I had my computer in work the other day doing some updates on it, and a co-worker said his sons computer was getting really slow. I told him I would take a look at it and see what I could do.
Man was this computer slow. It reminded me of my old Pentium classic and this had a P4 celeron in it. Well come to find out HP ***** their customers by only installing 128MB of ram in it and then trys to make you run XP with it. Not to get into the business side of it, but for $50 bucks more they could have at least put in another 256MB of ram.
My question is is there specific ram that HP needs, or is it not picky. It is the Pavilion 532w. I pulled the info sheet from HP's website and it uses PC2100 DDR. He is not overclocking the comp, not that he could anyways, so I was just going to get 1GB of the cheapest PC2100 on NewEgg, but am worried it will not work in the comp. Anyone else had experience doing this?
Thanks in advance!
Man was this computer slow. It reminded me of my old Pentium classic and this had a P4 celeron in it. Well come to find out HP ***** their customers by only installing 128MB of ram in it and then trys to make you run XP with it. Not to get into the business side of it, but for $50 bucks more they could have at least put in another 256MB of ram.
My question is is there specific ram that HP needs, or is it not picky. It is the Pavilion 532w. I pulled the info sheet from HP's website and it uses PC2100 DDR. He is not overclocking the comp, not that he could anyways, so I was just going to get 1GB of the cheapest PC2100 on NewEgg, but am worried it will not work in the comp. Anyone else had experience doing this?
Thanks in advance!