in November we bought HP a305w from walmart. came with xp home, celeron 2.7, 256ram, 40 hd, hp v72 monitor.
it is soooo slow… in fact my old barebones amd athlon 1600, 256ram, 40 hd, win M/E will run circles around it both running same applications… i dont like any of the hp bundle “features” and cannot extract xp from it and erase all else. installed a hd with M/E but cant adjust colors above 16 and cannot adjust resolution at all. sound and modem also not operational.
i would like to stick with M/E if possible. can i resolve these “OEM” problems by purchasing new graphics card, new modem, and new sound card?
or can you offer ANY solution which would enable us to get some use out of this thing.
thanks in advance for any assistance you can provide.
nu2this