Will more RAM help me...?

[Guest]

Not sure if this is the best discussion group to ask this at but I thought I
would try. Is it worth upgrading my RAM capacity of my old Sony VAIO..? I’m
no computer genius so I could use some good advice. I’ve an older Sony VAIO
PCG-FX310 Laptop I’ve had sense new. Specifications 900Mhz Processor, RAM
128, L2 Cache Memory (CPU integrated) 128 KB, 80 GB Hard drive, XP Home. The
computer has always worked good but over time it would slow down and I would
reinstall the OS with the recovery disks that came with it and it would be
back up to fair/stock performance again which was satisfactory for me I
didn’t/don’t need a tremendous amount of speed for what I do with it.
Recently I out grew the hard drive so I installed a 80 GB hard drive, the OS
with the recovery disks, NOD32 Anti virus, and ZoneAlarmPro 4. Everything
works with my computer now it is just that it is agonizingly slow!! Much
slower than before and my hard drive light flickers on almost constantly when
in use! I have not loaded much software on it yet and I have only used 8.2 GB
of my drive so far. My question is will installing another Memory Module such
as a 256MB in my spare slot help me out with speeding my system up a bit
more..? Or is it futile considering my processor. Would be nice if it ran a
little faster like it did when it was new would be fine.

 

[Mike Hall \(MS-MVP\)]

While your laptop is not exactly at the cutting edge of technology any more,
there is no doubt that an injection of RAM would help no end.. 512mb is a
good target to aim for.. you might also want to run in 'classic' mode..
removing XP eye candy does not render XP to Win 98/2000, but it does greatly
increase general speed on screen

 

[Management]

Not sure if this is the best discussion group to ask this at but I thought I
would try. Is it worth upgrading my RAM capacity of my old Sony VAIO..?

<SNIP>

If I understand you correctly: When you upgraded the hard disc to 80
GB and re-installed XP you found that the system was running much
slower than a fresh install using the original hard disc.

If so then I would think something was wrong.

As to RAM, on my system XP grabs around 200MB and the page file sits
at around 180MB. Upgrading your memory to 512MB ought to give you
performance boost when you have a number of programs open.


Charlie.

 

[Gerry Cornell]

Have you run Disk Defragmenter immediately after setting up your new
system. If not that would help.


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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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