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June 26th, 2025 03:46
Dimension 4100, eBay, physically damaged in shipping, it boots slowly
I ordered a 25 year old Dimension 4100 from eBay and the shell got damaged when I received it. After upgrading the cmos battery so I can skip the BIOS setup every time I turn it on, it takes 2 minutes and 27 seconds from pressing the power button to show the Windows XP loading screen and another exactly 2 minutes to load the mouse cursor and show the welcome screen. I bought a new compatible power supply for it and it still does the same thing.
And the diagnostic lights (that it has) showed that I should reseat the video card, and I did that and even cleaned its pins and slot with isopropyl alcohol and still get that error. But when it starts loading into Windows XP the diagnostic lights all turn green which means that its fine.
Also, whenever I wake up the computer from Standby mode it blue screens, but besides all that it's fine. How could I fix this though?
anne_droid
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June 26th, 2025 09:05
Hi
Who loaded the XP os onto the system?
Have you tried Defraggler, Ccleaner or something to ensure the filesystem is at it's optimum.
Would you consider an alternative OS?
https://www.tecmint.com/linux-distributions-for-old-computers/
Nirby UYP
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June 26th, 2025 12:03
The PC came preinstalled with a used version of XP but with it I was gonna try Windows 98, I'm just going to try formatting the hard drive and installing 98 on it.
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anne_droid
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June 26th, 2025 12:59
@Nirby UYP
Belarc Advisor will 'print' out all the licence info, just in case...
redxps630
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June 28th, 2025 18:40
probably an old HDD that has segmental errors and is on its way to grave causing slow OS boot. replace hdd with a new one. do a clean XP install. you may see magic.
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July 9th, 2025 14:00
I will try all those things thank you