Where are you buying your ram? I just swapped a 500MB chip for a 1GB chip, and it ran me $20-30.
Also, you are assuming he won't ask his parents for the money But if it's for a gaming laptop, well then he shouldn't
He said he's already got 2 gigs, which for an older laptop, I'd have to assume that means 2x1 GB, which means upgrading would require buying 2 sticks of RAM, and a spot check on newegg for laptop DDR2 shows ~$40 for a 2GB SODIMM.
Sure, why not. He doesn't have the funds to buy a new os, the obvious answer is buying a whole new system
Use your credit card, it's the american way!
computer specs
That's not a bad machine at all. Tad slow on the GHz side but nothing terrible, and it's dual core, which is good.
I'm guessing a combination of junk background software and a slow hard drive. We can fix at least one of those for free.
Sometimes when I'm playing the screen will go black and the computer will have to load for a short bit. 10 seconds later it'll flash up with an error message saying 'NVLDDMKM driver has failed to respond but has recovered'
It does this every now and then and its getting really annoying especially since I can't find a fix to it.
That's an nvidia driver error. Updating the video drivers would be the best thing to try, but I'm not sure if nvidia has a generic mobile driver or whether you'd need to get them directly from Acer's website.
I can hook you up with a windows 7 32 bit or 64 bit key for free if you want.
I got 'em through GMU.
Pretty sure that sharing those with him wouldn't be entirely legal.