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December 25th, 2011 18:00
Dell DImension 4100
Hi I have a Dell Dimension 4100. IT HAS BEEN WORKING FOR THE PAST 11 YEARS. ecxept for the hardrive and video card because they really tend to deteriorate. And now, I uise it for facebooking and playing music and documenting.
But there is a problem, IT IS SO SLOW!!!!!!!!!
shesagordie
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December 25th, 2011 18:00
pussific_ocean
Sounds like it's time to buy a new desktop PC.
There's very little you can do with an obsolete Socket 370, P-3 system, except max out the SDRAM to 512mb [2x256mb modules]
Bev.
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December 25th, 2011 18:00
I WAS STILL IN KINDERGARTEN WHEN MY PARAENTS BOUGHT THIS :'( Oh well, you're right. I should look forward on buying a new one. It is on 512 MB Ram PC 100 (darn it should've bought PC 133) I tried reinstalling windows XP, 256 MB AGP video card. have already reached the maximum capacity, Still slow. But I am really impressed of the longetivity of the rest of the parts inside. (especially the mobo, cpu, power supply and et.) this computer has a lot of sentimental values to me. In fact, I AM USING IT NOW. lololol.... Sure thing, I will buy a new dell PC.
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December 25th, 2011 19:00
pussific_ocean
Recently I donated a working Dimension 4100 to a garage sale, as it was not worth spending money on upgrades.
Still have a pristine 1999/2000 Dimension L Series PC, that I've installed a PCI NIC card, a PCI video card and PCI USB 2.0 cards, flashed the BIOS to version A14, upgraded the Socket 370 processor to a P-3 1GB Coppermine and RAM to 512mb [from 64mb]. Installed a used burner and 2 80gb IDE hard drives, pulled from recycled PC's and keeped, same as you, for sentimental reasons.
The RAM was free, from upgrades I did years ago, all I've spent was $65 on the cards and processor and was still running Dell's OEM 98se, but it's a job to find 98se drivers and applications, this year I upgrade to old OEM copy of XP Home Edition, that was on the 'shelf'.
Plus both the 4100 and the L Series have major Dell proprietary components,
After all these upgrades the L Series is still painfully slow, when used with todays applications.
Bev.
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February 1st, 2014 20:00
:emotion-5: I still have my 4100, too! I use it mostly as our network machine... the router is attached to it and I control everybody's devices with it! LOL It is truly a workhorse and still alive - bought it in Aug 2000. Since then, I had Thinkpad (before Lenovo), Vostro for the kids and Inspiron Studio 17.