Recent content by nowuncme

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    Fresh install Windows 7/Drivers

    Hi, I have a HP Pavilion dv9288ea Laptop that originally had Vista installed on it. I just done a clean install of Windows 7 32bit. Now I'm trying to install all the drivers and updates but not I'm not sure what drivers or where! I went on the Hp site and used the auto check tool.It finds my...
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    RAM upgrade on old Laptop

    ahh ok well feels like 10 years
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    RAM upgrade on old Laptop

    Thanks for the advice and thanks for your time :)
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    RAM upgrade on old Laptop

    My dad said that laptop cost him £1200 when he bought it, but that must have been 10+ years ago. So it was probably a good machine back then but...well things age new stuff comes out all the time so its kind of hard to keep up with it all. I will ask him if he wants to upgrade with ssd as I...
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    RAM upgrade on old Laptop

    I'd say £200 -£350 should get something decent right?
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    RAM upgrade on old Laptop

    I know this laptop is quite old now and and low spec compared to my gaming rig but I would like to think its still ok for light use like internet browsing. It just feels sluggish and slow.
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    RAM upgrade on old Laptop

    svchost.exe seems to be the culprit! It's using like 700,456k in memory usage in Task Manager
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    RAM upgrade on old Laptop

    Thanks for the reply So I take it I should not be installing a 64 bit on this system but rather a 32bit version? As the 64 bit is using so much of the ram and cpu usage! RAM usage at 90% CPU usage at 50% at idle with 64 bit win 7!
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    RAM upgrade on old Laptop

    Hi, my dad gave me an old Toshiba hp compaq dv9288ea,running Windows Vista 32bit with 2x1 gb ddr2 It was in a bit of a mess so I reinstalled Windows 7 64 bit and the drivers, but as I am novice I have now realised that 2gb of ram is not sufficient for 64bit Windows 7. Is it possible to...