Im angry at dell

[dangerbird89]

My comps a gx240 dell and when it was bought suposedly had *gig of ram.. well today being suspicious after 6 years of a slow comp ran this freeware program "CPU-z" http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php which says this comp onlys got *84mb of ram! * *28 mb card + * 256 mb card! should i sue dell lol this makes me angry its no wonder that i cant run any programs without things hosing up. that plus ive only got windows

[gordo]

http://www.pcworld.com/article/80*0*/dell_optiplex_gx240.html
According to that link, it originally had 256mb of ram. It seems odd that dell would install unmatching sizes of ram. Bumping your ram up to 5*2mb (2x256mb) should help a lot.Here is a good read. http://www.pcbuyerbeware.co.uk/RAM.htm
Running ccleaner and a defrag the harddrive should help too.