Western-Central Lower Michigan | Check your processor. Any computer worth a hoot is going to have a dual core or quad core for a minimum these days. If its a single core (such as a pentium 4) give it to good will and but something else. All the new operating systems are 64bit and you need at least a dual core processor.
Also the RAM should be DDR2 or DDR3 not just plain DDR, another sign its way way too old to run things. |