The memory should help.Charles L. Cotton wrote:I wish I could get much more RAM, but the early dv6000 series laptops won't recognize more than 2GB with PC2-6400S (666) memory. By flashing the bios and using PC2- 5300 (667) memory, it will recognize 3GB. I've flashed the bios to the latest (2010) and I'm going to get the memory. I'm just concerned that having the hard drive with less than 35% available storage, I'm still going to have a problem. Heck, I've wanted to play with an SSD anyway.jerry_r60 wrote:I missed in your original message that this machine only has 1 gig of ram. When I said I had no issues with vista, I had 8 gig of ram. I would think you would need at least 4 gig. I think I would be uncomfortable with less than that. With the single purpose of running Skype, I guess you could just test with that. I'd make sure to go through and make sure nothing else is automatically starting up at bootup time as well.Charles L. Cotton wrote:It's significantly better after using a registry cleaner, but still far from reliable. I may upgrade to 4GB of RAM even though it will on recognize 3GB. I was surprised to find that a Crucial 250GM SSD is compatible. It's available for only $99 and it would increase storage by 350%. I may go that route since I could have a dedicated Skype computer for about $135.
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Chas.
You will likely only see faster boot times from the SSD upgrade.