It was replaced by the Dimension 8200. The 8100 had a limitation of a 2ghz processor with the socket 423 pentium 4 and the 8200 uses the socket 478 with 2ghz and higher.

Did you do an upgrade install over Win ME or a clean install? If you did the upgrade then you need to clean install and you will see a big difference.




Dimension 8100 1.3ghz
20gb Maxtor Ultra ATA/100 hard drive
40gb Western Digital Ultra ATA/100 hard drive
512mb PC800 RAM
19" Viewsonic G90mb monitor
32mb NVIDIA GeForce2 MX 4x w/TV out
SB Live! digital soundcard with 1024 voices
Labtec Pulse-424 speakers with subwoofer
NEC DV-5800A 16X DVD ROM drive
LG CED 8080B 8X/4X/32X CD-RW drive
Dell enhanced performance USB keyboard
Logitech cordless optical mouse
3Com Etherlink 10/100 PCI ethernet card
COM21 DP1100 cable modem with attbi broadband
Linksys BEFSR41 Cable/DSL router
HP Laserjet 1200se
HP Deskjet 970Cxi
HP Scanjet 5470Cxi
Dual boot Windows ME / Windows XP home
BIOS version A09 (works fine with XP)
Build date 7/7/01

Message Edited on 03/05/02 11:24PM by cde3cvr

What do I need to do to clean upgrade?

CAM4175,
This site will guide you through it. I would suggest printing it out so you can follow it.

http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/windowsxp_sg_clean.asp

Good Luck,
Marvin P

XPS B800r
512MBz Ram
Windows XP (2/1/02)
&
8200
512MBz Ram
XP
Truck Vanity Plate "Dell4Me"

Hi

For more info go to >>

http://www.windowsreinstall.com/indexwinxp.htm

I found it's easier to print a copy for a reference while installing.

Bev

I have just done a clean install on my 8100 of XP Pro. Before, I had just upgraded from ME to XP and my machine was slow too. You will notice a BIG difference in performance from a clean install.