does the hard drive or monitor have anything to do with how fast the computer runs?
what can i do to make it run like it did before he gave it to me?
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Wipe it clean with the OS or restore disk to reinstall a fresh copy of the operating system. It depends on the hard drive speed and cache . it may make a slight difference in hdd access speed.the monitor has nothing to do with Comp speed.
Hi. If the machine is capable of higher speeds then I would look at maxing out RAM. Your installed Hard Drive is usually not the cause of low speed. The monitor has no influence at all.
Both do affect the performance of your computer but mostly the hard drive does. The hard drive affects the speed of the computer, for example the speed for a file to be copied, deleted, or moved. It will affect the speed of the boot time or the time it takes for the computer to start. The monitor which affects the performance a little bit, affects the stress of the video card. It may slow down the speed and the quality of the video if the monitor is high spec and the video card is low spec.
So if you buy a hard drive faster than what you have right now, it should solve the problem, discarding the specs of your other computer parts.
So — if you didn’t get the hard drive, the software (operating system) on your machine probably isn’t configured like his was. Are you running Vista and he was running XP? XP will run just fine in a machine with 512MB of memory — Vista will barely run.
So — the suggestion about “memory” is a good one; memory is like money. Having too much is no problem; having too little can be a serious problem. If earning $1,000 a month gives you $10 over after living expenses, getting $2,000 a month gives you $1010 over (100 times more). Doubling your system memory can have a similarly dramatic impact from a system performance point of view.
Where a hard drive will affect performance is when the system starts, when programs are loading, when you are loading files (e.g. documents), or if the system is low on memory and it has to use the disk as extra memory. The monitor is a red herring; forget about it.
If you could give additional information describing exactly what is slower, and if you believe the software setup to be identical or different, then we could give you much more targetted suggestions as to what the exact problem might be.