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- Jun 4, 2013
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Hi Guys,
Apologies in advance if these questions are rather silly but here goes.
My wife owns a Compaq CQ58-331SA and it is terribly slow so decided to look at giving it a small upgrade.
It is running Win 8.1 and has 4GB of 1333MHZ DDR3 Ram in it, thus I ordered another 4GB (Matching) from Mr Memory - "4GB 204-pin SODIMM DDR3 PC3-10600 1333MHz".
The other thing I am looking at doing is changing the HDD to an SSD. This can be done using "Kingston Technology 240GB Solid State Drive V300 SATA 3 Upgrade Bundle Kit with Adapter".
Would mean losing 250GB+ of storage space as currently has a 500GB HDD, but not an issue as only used for MS Office and browsing the Net.
Questions -
1. As the laptop came preloaded with Win 8 on it and no operating system install disk or documentation, how do I do a legal fresh install of Win 8 on the new SSD drive ?
2. Apart from the Laptop itself being horribly slow, issues also happen when browsing movies via Netflix - stuttering and non-HD streaming. HD works fine on movies (via Storage) but not streaming - will the upgrades listed help with this.
I have never upgraded a laptop before and my experience is limited.
Thanks for any help.
Apologies in advance if these questions are rather silly but here goes.
My wife owns a Compaq CQ58-331SA and it is terribly slow so decided to look at giving it a small upgrade.
It is running Win 8.1 and has 4GB of 1333MHZ DDR3 Ram in it, thus I ordered another 4GB (Matching) from Mr Memory - "4GB 204-pin SODIMM DDR3 PC3-10600 1333MHz".
The other thing I am looking at doing is changing the HDD to an SSD. This can be done using "Kingston Technology 240GB Solid State Drive V300 SATA 3 Upgrade Bundle Kit with Adapter".
Would mean losing 250GB+ of storage space as currently has a 500GB HDD, but not an issue as only used for MS Office and browsing the Net.
Questions -
1. As the laptop came preloaded with Win 8 on it and no operating system install disk or documentation, how do I do a legal fresh install of Win 8 on the new SSD drive ?
2. Apart from the Laptop itself being horribly slow, issues also happen when browsing movies via Netflix - stuttering and non-HD streaming. HD works fine on movies (via Storage) but not streaming - will the upgrades listed help with this.
I have never upgraded a laptop before and my experience is limited.
Thanks for any help.