This is really strange.
Your HDD is fine, so it's not that, RAM at 1 Gb is sufficient to run Vista, You don't have any nasties in your system. mmm indeed.
How old is this laptop? Is it still in warranty?

i say it a over heating problem myself !!! and if still under warranty then i would return it ! Pronto

Totally agree with ya caperjack, if it is in warranty take it back! Do you think it's the CPU overheating? That could cause this kinda issue, with lots of freezing.

yes the cpu ,i think and all it might take is a can of compressed air to clean fans and heatsinc fins .

How old is this laptop funwadi? Do you think that it is a build up of dust then caperjack? It would seem a plausible explanation, if this laptop was over a year or so old.

yeah you maybe right ,it might be a little new for dust

if your pc was preinstalled with vista, going back to xp is more trouble than its worth. i ve tried that, and all i got was a lot of errors, poor performance, and a broken keyboard ( i physically broke it from frustration, and got it replaced via hp's accidental care protection), and still ended up going back to vista.
if you manually installed vista, going back to xp may improve performance, and save you trouble. either way, you will be forced to switch to vista soon, as xp End Of Life is on its way.
if real player and windows media player causes freeze ups, upgrade to two gigs of ram. But upgrade soon as new DDR3 is emerging, meaning that ddr2 will be in short supply and therefore a higher price.
good luck.

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forumdude123

no. old ddr(1) and plain sdram is still cheap

not compared to ddr2, i tried to see how much ddr 1 costs, and a gig of that is 125.00 @ Tiger Direct!!!

tiger is crap. use crucial. on crucial 2x512mb sticks of standard RAM is:


DDR --- $65 to $110
DDR2 --- $30 to $85
DDR3 -- $135

as you can see, theres minimal difference