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Vista hangs up intermittently - HP Compaq dc5100 Microtower PC Desktop

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I personally own one a dc5100 mt and I never experienced Vista on it but it could be driver issues, Windows 7 fixes most of them. But it could be software running in the background that is taking up bandwidth of both your CPU and RAM. I would recommend buying/upgrading your ram modules, the system runs DDR2 5400, Max 1 GB of RAM per slot. It also may be updating when the hangs occur. But overall i would highly recommend either Windows 7 or drop back down to XP.

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