can system rot go this far?

hello, we've got a 2006 acer aspire 3620 with a 1.5ghz celeron M, a 36gig HDD, a GMA 900 and currently 1 gig of ram. its running Windows Xp Home edition.

last night, i took two gigz out of it and put in two 512mb sticks instead. then i put in a dvd to see if it would run smoothly, but it didnt run at all. i used Acer Arcade and WMP to try and play it but it didnt work. the programs just didnt respond to playing it but recognized it. then this morning, it wouldnt connect to the internet. at all, eventhough my lappy is happily running at 11mbps, i think...

the acer says signal strength is excellent and connected at 11mbps but IE and FireFox quickly display not connected or of the sort after refreshing the page.

is the OS so jumbled up? for some reason it can run without 1.5 gigz... it originally had 512 and was slow but could actually still play DVDs...

any ideas?

 

Sounds like you have more than 1 problem. Just because you have a signal from your router, it doesn't mean you have a internet connection.

You're all over the board with the amount of ram you had/have. 2GB, 1GB, .5 GB. Why do you keep swapping?

 

a variety of malware could be so consuming your bandwith that internet connections are unworkable, but I can't say that changing the amount of ram would impact this....indeed changing the amount of ram should have little affect on your internet.