mike the newbie

I put together an older dell, it was using the FAT32 format, I changed it to NFTS 'cause file sharing on live messenger was not possible, now its slower than molasses, and when I mean slow.................munning windows xp on a dell dimension,20gb hard drive , 384 mb ram , with a pentium III at 930 MHz. Any ideas would be very helpfull!

I do have the mx series video card in there, but I'm gonna swap the 128 ram with the 256 and see what happens. I unplugged the machine and let it sit for 10 minutes and booted it up, and its a little faster, but I would like to see it faster even more. Thanks for the inout, and I will post on any changes. Mike

Well, like I said, I'm a newbie at this, I had to swap out the video card, it was toast, . I'm guessing it was an AGP, 'cause the slot is further in and its a brown slot, while the rest are white and closer to the back of the machine. The old video card is a nvidia gforce 2mx. Its the dell dimension 4100. Im not sure where to find info on the motherboard chipset.