Want to put windows 3.1 or even an olde version of dos on a dell inspiron 2400 Pentium 4 1gb RAM in order to use some highly outdated programs pre-windows 95 Is this doable?

The big question is whether the 2400 has a PCI Express slot. It does not. The 9500GT is a PCI Express 2.0 x16 card

Hi

Anti-Virus Programs will work with this processor, running Windows XP.

For newer Operating systems, there might be a problem with speed, due to the limitations of the processing power of the processor.

The motherboard for this Computer is likely to take old SD-RAM or even older EDO RAM, which are difficult to find at a reasonable price nowadays, because they are rare.

You should aim for a motherboard with 4 RAM slots to accept as much RAM Memory as possible.

Suggested good quality, low resource usage antivirus programs:

AVAST! (www.avast.com)

AVIRA (avira.com)

BULLGUARD (www.bulguard.com)

I hope this helps.
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Hi.
Dell only support this laptop to XP with drivers, I therefore doubt you would even get the 32 bit version of Windows 7 to work on this

add higher memory ram to 2GB ram, because the norton antivirus can use a high usage of memory ram.

To be honest, the Inspiron 1100 is probably not worth the effort and cost to upgrade
The fast is proc is a 2.4 GHz Pentium 4 CPU, max ram 1GB of RAM,
You can find several dell portables below $500
http://www.dell.com/us/en/business/notebooks/vostronb/ct.aspx?refid=vostronb&s=bsd&cs=04
http://www.dell.com/us/en/home/laptops_great_deals/fs.aspx?refid=laptops_great_deals&s=dhs&cs=19

http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/dim2400/en/sm_en/specs.htm

There u go! and YES, 2GB is tha maximum RAM you can have on that one.
But NO, you can NOT use PC3200 sticks, this is what you can use:
PC2100 (266-MHz) or PC2700 (333-MHz) DDR SDRAM (non-ECC)

You can read all about in the documentation obove

Good luck
Nic

The fastest processor you can install in a GX150 is a Pentium III 1.13 Ghz processor.

The Socket 370 was a design used only for P3 processors.

Max RAM for that system is 512MB no way to upgrade past that.

If you paid $100 for a GX150, you paid way too much (You can buy a refurbished Dell Dimension C521 for $225 at their refurb site)

There are PCI slots, but the processor, ram, and video capabilities are far below what modern components expect. You probably could get the wireless card to work, make sure the manufacturer has drivers for Windows 98 before you buy the card.

In my opinion you should maximize your RAM. For a Dimension 2400, Dell's manual claims the min is 128 Mb and the max is 1Gb. Not sure how you got to only 32Mb of RAM but you'll see a big improvement in performance if you increase it.

Do you have an old IBM or a Dell (the area you posed the question in)?

Yo u have 2 slots in u r machine I am sending u details information of updradation in ur machine :

frequency of ram should be

667 MHz Dual Channel DDR2 SD RAM
option 1.
A system ready for the next generation of applications and games 3 or 4GB1 Dual Channel2 DDR2 SDRAM
2.
A system capable of handling Windows Vista® Aero as well as today’s latest games. 2GB Dual Channel2 DDR2 SDRAM
3.
Basic performance for the Windows Vista® AeroTM interface (PCs purchased with Windows Vista Home Premium and less than 1GB of memory will NOT be capable of running Aero). 1GB Dual Channel2 DDR2 SDRAM
4.
Basic performance, lowest initial cost (Windows Vista® Home Basic) 512MB Dual Channel2 DDR2 SDRAM

If your computer has these hardware specs:

Windows XP with Service Pack 2 or higher, or Windows Vista; Internet Explorer version 6 or higher; Windows Media Player version 11 or higher; an active broadband connection to the Internet; 1.0 GHz processor; 512 MB RAM; 3 GB free hard disk drive space.

you should be ok with the movies download and watch.

Other wise you will probablt need new hardware which is really tough to upgrade on a laptop.