[TriLUG] My Dell Laptop is extremely slow

Jason Faulkner jasonlf at gmail.com
Tue Jan 4 12:18:55 EST 2005


Get the ultimate boot cd at www.ultimatebootcd.com and run lots of
wonderful scans on the hardware :)

Jay


On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 12:13:47 -0500, Daniel Zhang
<zhang at clinicaltools.com> wrote:
> My Dell Inspiron 1150 running Fedora 3 crashed recently and can't
> reboot. I did nothing before it crashed except I didn't shut down the
> machine for several days.
> Then I try to reinstall OS but machine hangs there a couple of times.
> The error message includes possible hardware failure. Finally I barely
> reinstall it with the minimum packages but it runs like a tortoise.
> 
> Is that due to bad RAM(512 MB for this machine) or anything else? If so,
> how can I check RAM good or not? Thanks.
> 
> Daniel
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