20 Most Recent Dell Dimension 2300 PC Desktop - Page 2 Questions & Answers

battery is deffinitly the slow boot problem, i put fixed up a old dell for a friend and before i replaced the cmos battery it was doing the exact same thing (don't forget to unplug and press the power button so you don't get shocked or harm the pc)

It looks like this computer only supports IDE hard drives.
The larget drives are all SATA hard drives. You can get a host card like this one: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816102065 which will give you some SATA ports. Make sure you have a free PCI slot.
There's a limitation with current operating systems that won't let you have a boot drive be larger than 2.2TB. I wouldn't recommend getting a drive larger than 2TB for that reason.
Good luck.

if you are using xp, boot from xp cd and
copy from i386. this file "lsass.exe" to the follewing location and restart

c:/windows/system32
C:\WINDOWS\system32\dllcache (this is hidden file also protected os file)


hope this is usefull

Get one that has a cloning utility program so that way you won't have to re-install the operating system. Specify that to the sales person when you get the hard drive.

REMOVE YOUR POWER CORD AND HOLD THE ON BUTTON FOR LIKE 30second TO A MINUTE AND THEN CONNECT IT BACK AND TURN IT ON

Open the case of your PC.Take your net-adapter out and look for the model and replace it.

Hi,
You can download the sound driver from the site below

Download


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You most likely have a heat related issue. Try removing the cover and checking the inside of your system. If it looks like a haunted house in there, then grab a can of compressed air and start some spring cleaning. Enough dust can accumulate in your system to preven the heat dissipation points to work correctly. Anything past this would warrant a service call from a local tech in order to replace broken fans and or heat sinks.

press windows key + R Type:- diskmgmt.msc & press enter

In the new screen select your XP drive eg:- C:\ at the top select action & select Format. (Formating the drive will over write all your XP installation)

Hi,

If you have an extra monitor try connecting it. If it works fine, if not then there might be some issue with your video card itself.

Regards

If you want to just get rid of virus/malware and other nasties, then you dont need to , but its always best to regularly back important stuff up.
Follow this guide to clean your Operating system
http://www.fixya.com/support/r5272277-secure_clean_computers

If however you need to re-install windows with a normal windows disc, everything will be lost and you will need the drivers for your motherboard and other equipment.
If you are doing a factory restore/recovery then you will loose everything, but all your drivers and programs that where on your computer when new will be there.

Feel free to ask if anything is not clear, or you need more information

You can download the drivers from Dell WEB site, the support download page. Make sure you select your model desktop or laptop, better still, type in the Service Tag number, it is printed on the label on the bottom of the laptop and on the back or sides of a desktop. (If the Service Tag label is missing then go into the BIOS setting and on one of the BIOS pages, the Service Tag number will be displayed). This will open the page where the specific drivers for your model computer are located. Also make sure you select the Windows XP or Vista version of the drivers for your Windows operating system. Click on this link to download the drivers: -
http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/index.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=gen

You need a expert. Thank you.

It sounds like the person who donated the PC wiped the HD clean, so that none of their previous data can be taken from the old HD.

And when they re-installed an operating system, they did not complete the installation. This means you must contact that person, find out which OS they installed on the HD, and get the boot diskette from that person.

The alternative is to have them do a full install of an OS, or you do it yourself. But you must use an OS for which you have a license.

Otherwise, you will have error messages pop up every step of the way, and you won't be able to use the PC without error messages every step of the way.

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Probably. Try turning it off.

Try defraging.
If your willing to spend money
get more RAM it worked for me, ask someone or look it up, about how much ram your computer can "handle" and buy the RAM stick according to your pc max capacity

No, in almost all cases upgrading your computer wil only make it run slower. If you want to improve the computers speed there a couple things you can do. 1) Run spyware/virus scans, 2) Add RAM to increase computer speed, 3) Defrag
Software Critics says,

Try these--Highly Effective Ways to Optimize PC Speed made simple
Solution: 1: Create restore point and take registry backup.
2: Delete all temp files.
3: Delete all unwanted software's and security software's from add/remove program.
4: Disable all unwanted services from startup and then remove from registry.
5: Reset internet explorer and then register all .dll files.
6: Scan with spyware removal malwarebyte,hijackthis and Trojan removal.
7: Check windows update if found and then download and install.
8: Defrag C: drive
9: Restart the computer, and then check it.
A big NO NO: It's not recommended to edit registry before upgrading a PC or even making a slow PC faster as some registry cleaners can scrape out old registry entries of which some may be necessary to keep some programs running! And avoid websites trying to sell you something unnecessary.

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Here ya go

http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/dim2300/replace.htm#1126855