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March 15th, 2009, 02:57
The other evening, my wife finally got the laptop she has been wanting for a while. It was originally a graduation present given to our nephew in May 2006. He used it for less than 2 months before shipping out for US Army boot camp. After boot and basic, he came home for two weeks...and apparently used a good bit of that free time looking at nekkid women on the internet...and as a result the laptop was serious infected with viruses, trojans, worms, roaches, leeches and just about every other nasty thing the net has to offer. The system would not run at all. He got a new laptop shortly after deploying to Iraq and told his parents that they could trash the "old" one. Since then, the laptop has sat lifeless on the top of his dresser.
A few weeks ago, sis-in-law and bubby-in-law were over for pizza and movie night and my wife mentioned wanting a laptop. Well, they told us about Donnie's non-working one and said she could have it.
Anyhow, got it Friday evening, fired the system up using a boot utility CD and ran a anti-virus sweep. 22 viruses, all high, very high, or severe threat levels. Can't remember the number of trojans and worms...but definitely more than I have ever seen on one system at one time before.
I did a deep format, reinstalled XP Home SP2 (the laptop came with the original unopened XP disc, the original unopened software disc, all paperwork and cords)...got the sytem updated to SP3, antivirus in place, system utilities installed. So now my wife has a 2 to 2.5 year old laptop with about 3 months of run time on the clock.
I have looked and looked for specs on the system to see just how far I can upgrade the thing. It has a 38 gig HD. RAM...not sure....the BIOs says 644meg (or there abouts), the System thingie under control panel says 244 meg. The BIOs and what info I was able to find on line says that the AMD Sempron 2800+ is clocked at 1.6Ghz, but the System thingie under Control Panel pegs it at 756Mhz.
Does anyone know where I can find the detailed specs on this system and just what it can support? And yes, I have been to HP.com and they had nothing showing the detailed specs on this system.
The system is an HP Pavillion ZE2000.
The 15 inch screen is sharp! DVD Rom drive, 2 USB 2.0 ports, S-Video out, VGA out, pretty decent sound. For the price we paid for the system (LOL), it is worth adding a larger HD and some more RAM to get the system to run a tad faster. Doesn't have to be a super computer as my wife will be using it to browse a couple forums (fish and ferret info), do some E-Bay shopping, basic e-mail and her nursing stuff once she is able to return to work. And watching DVDs on it in the bedroom.
OBIO
A few weeks ago, sis-in-law and bubby-in-law were over for pizza and movie night and my wife mentioned wanting a laptop. Well, they told us about Donnie's non-working one and said she could have it.
Anyhow, got it Friday evening, fired the system up using a boot utility CD and ran a anti-virus sweep. 22 viruses, all high, very high, or severe threat levels. Can't remember the number of trojans and worms...but definitely more than I have ever seen on one system at one time before.
I did a deep format, reinstalled XP Home SP2 (the laptop came with the original unopened XP disc, the original unopened software disc, all paperwork and cords)...got the sytem updated to SP3, antivirus in place, system utilities installed. So now my wife has a 2 to 2.5 year old laptop with about 3 months of run time on the clock.
I have looked and looked for specs on the system to see just how far I can upgrade the thing. It has a 38 gig HD. RAM...not sure....the BIOs says 644meg (or there abouts), the System thingie under control panel says 244 meg. The BIOs and what info I was able to find on line says that the AMD Sempron 2800+ is clocked at 1.6Ghz, but the System thingie under Control Panel pegs it at 756Mhz.
Does anyone know where I can find the detailed specs on this system and just what it can support? And yes, I have been to HP.com and they had nothing showing the detailed specs on this system.
The system is an HP Pavillion ZE2000.
The 15 inch screen is sharp! DVD Rom drive, 2 USB 2.0 ports, S-Video out, VGA out, pretty decent sound. For the price we paid for the system (LOL), it is worth adding a larger HD and some more RAM to get the system to run a tad faster. Doesn't have to be a super computer as my wife will be using it to browse a couple forums (fish and ferret info), do some E-Bay shopping, basic e-mail and her nursing stuff once she is able to return to work. And watching DVDs on it in the bedroom.
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