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Some silly second hand laptop questions

  • 14-08-2007 8:15am
    #1
    Killme00
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,441 ✭✭✭


    Hi,

    I am buying another laptop second hand soon from a friend of a friend. I have been told sevarl specs for the laptop and they sound very good. What checks can i do to make sure what am i told i am being sold is actually what i am being sold.

    How do i check if there is actually 2.00 GHz, 4 MB L2 Cache, 800MHz FSB?

    How do i check if it has 120GB harddrive?

    How do i check if the graphics card is 511MB NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS?

    What other checks should i do to check if the laptop is working properly?

    Also when i get the laptop home should i clear the memory/hardrive, how do i do this?

    Sorry for so many stupid questions,
    Tom


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  • #2
    garthv
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,698 ✭✭✭garthv


    You can check all this information a number of ways. The best way to check it would be to run dxdiag.

    Click on Start > Run > type dxdiag and press enter. This will bring up a list of all your system components.

    Theres not much checks to see if the laptop is working properly, if it turns on then you've got a working laptop, if it doesnt turn on then youve just been screwed :)

    I would suggest re-installing Windows, this will clear all the previous information from the hard drives and give you a fresh clean install to start with.


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