R
Rahman
Hello Experts,
I had one of my friend complain about his Dell Dimension 8100.He
brought it to me so that I can take a look at it.
It was a Windows ME / 128 RDRAM/60 Gig /1.6Ghz.
I was like ME, noooooooooooooo but she was an old lady didnt wanna hurt
her feelings so figured i will take a look at it and see what I can do
Issues.
Everytime it would start it would go striaght to SafeMode and restart
it self.
I decided I will just format the whole hard drive and reload the baby
with XP.Well first I figured I will try my best to recover the data so
took the hard drive out made it slave and tried to grab the data,but
couldnt exactly comeup with proper jumper settings so gave up on
that.So I put the drive as it is and started to reformat the drive and
load XP and then all the misery started.
I just put the default jumper settings back on the hard drive ( which I
think was Cable Select)First install took 46 hrs and finally XP came
up and it was extremely slow,just the first startup took 45 mins,I
have reformated many computers before but havent seen a behavior like
this.I was patient I figured I will run windows update everything
should be OK but couldnt get connected to internet.(Ethernet drivers
were loaded fine in device manager just this check took 20 mins)
Then I figured it was the RAM and first time heard abt RDRAM so finally
found the right vendor and bought the most expensive RAM in my life I
bought two 256MB chips and now the system has 128+518=640MB RAM and
guess what system is still running at same speed.
I have no clue whats going on, I flashed BIOS,ran diagnostics on
harddrive and memory got sucess results but still system is slow.
So finally figured I will just reinstall XP again as new memory is
installed and guess what its been 3 days and its still installing.This
morning it said 6 mins to finish the install and its almost time for me
to go home and it still says 4 mins to finish install (Saving Settings)
I have no idea what in the world is making this system run so slow.I
ran every diagnostic possible,hard drive looks ok ,memory is good, i
can see it says memoy 640 in bios.
Any one had an issue like this with Dell Dimension 8100 ...Crappiest
system of all time ...
I was helping a friend by fixing this machine ,thought i will take it
over the weekend fix it and return it trust me its been 2 months and
iam still trying to figure out what exactly is wrong with it.
I can call my friend and junk it but I have put so much time into it
,wanna know what the heck is wrong with this machine.
I had one of my friend complain about his Dell Dimension 8100.He
brought it to me so that I can take a look at it.
It was a Windows ME / 128 RDRAM/60 Gig /1.6Ghz.
I was like ME, noooooooooooooo but she was an old lady didnt wanna hurt
her feelings so figured i will take a look at it and see what I can do
Issues.
Everytime it would start it would go striaght to SafeMode and restart
it self.
I decided I will just format the whole hard drive and reload the baby
with XP.Well first I figured I will try my best to recover the data so
took the hard drive out made it slave and tried to grab the data,but
couldnt exactly comeup with proper jumper settings so gave up on
that.So I put the drive as it is and started to reformat the drive and
load XP and then all the misery started.
I just put the default jumper settings back on the hard drive ( which I
think was Cable Select)First install took 46 hrs and finally XP came
up and it was extremely slow,just the first startup took 45 mins,I
have reformated many computers before but havent seen a behavior like
this.I was patient I figured I will run windows update everything
should be OK but couldnt get connected to internet.(Ethernet drivers
were loaded fine in device manager just this check took 20 mins)
Then I figured it was the RAM and first time heard abt RDRAM so finally
found the right vendor and bought the most expensive RAM in my life I
bought two 256MB chips and now the system has 128+518=640MB RAM and
guess what system is still running at same speed.
I have no clue whats going on, I flashed BIOS,ran diagnostics on
harddrive and memory got sucess results but still system is slow.
So finally figured I will just reinstall XP again as new memory is
installed and guess what its been 3 days and its still installing.This
morning it said 6 mins to finish the install and its almost time for me
to go home and it still says 4 mins to finish install (Saving Settings)
I have no idea what in the world is making this system run so slow.I
ran every diagnostic possible,hard drive looks ok ,memory is good, i
can see it says memoy 640 in bios.
Any one had an issue like this with Dell Dimension 8100 ...Crappiest
system of all time ...
I was helping a friend by fixing this machine ,thought i will take it
over the weekend fix it and return it trust me its been 2 months and
iam still trying to figure out what exactly is wrong with it.
I can call my friend and junk it but I have put so much time into it
,wanna know what the heck is wrong with this machine.