Computers bust.

Hi Maria. At the moment there is only 1 gig of ram, but I hope to increase it to 4 soon.

There seems to be a problem though. I have an info balloon saying "You just plugged a device into the audio socket"----"You just unplugged a device from the audio socket". One after the other it keeps flashing up. I cant find where to disable the notification. Grrrrrrrr. Bloomin Vista.  I only hope that I can find what is wrong with my old setup and fix it.

It definitely doesn't sound like a RAM problem Peter, increasing to 4 gig will just make it faster and able to multi task better, but your problem isn't that it is slow is it?

Hi Ray. Yes it is slow. I just got so used to my old computer I spose. It was blisteringly fast.

Sorted out the info balloon problem now though. Just switched of the internal sound module. Still get sound, though dont ask me how. It also speeded up the computer slightly but only a little bit.

I guess you have tried all the usual things, defrag and optimise, Scandisk/surface/All and rermoving temp files etc. might need  to download some updated divers, flash bios, etc. Overheating can cause probs too.

Have you tried sytem restore, or uninstalling/reinstalling programs that might be a bit flaky??

Thank you Maria and Ray for your input. You dont get manuals with computers these days,so I dont know the speed of the front side bus or the memory type and speed. I dont even know the upper limit of memory. I have 1 and 2 gig DDR2 memory sticks in 400 and 800 MHz and hope that they will work in this PC. Still, I wont know till I take it appart and look will I.

Ray,as I said its a new computer. From setting it up that darn pop up started. I got rid of it eventualy but as Maria said, I need to upgrade the memory very quickly.

Peter,

You need to ask an expert, but if you have two memory sticks at different speeds, ie 400 and 800 mhz, the ram will operate at the lower speed. You could try going onto www.kingstonmemory.com and they can run a scan and check memory compatibility for you.

As Maria says, getting 4 gig of the correct speed, would make a fantastic difference.