Recent content by Deborah D

My niece got a GatewaySX2110G for Christmas 2012. This computer has been nothing but a paperweight since she got it. It never booted correctly, it spontaneously shut down all the time, just a pain in the neck. I went back and forth with Acer and Gateway for over a year, with nothing repaired or...

It has a 500 watt power supply, I upgraded that also.

If he is like me, money is the reason we upgrade our old workhorses. I would love something new and fast, but I need to feed my family and pay bills first.

I have a Compaq SR1901WM running Windows XP. It has the stock processor in it, a Sempron (P) 3200+ 1.8 GHz, but it now has 3GB of RAM, and I upgraded the hard drive to 320 GB. I bought an AMD Athlon 64 3800+ socket 939 CPU to maybe get a little more speed. When I installed the new CPU, something...