Upgrade Dell 2400

My Parents Dell Dimension 2400 must be almost 10 years. I told them I want to get a new computer, but faced a lot of resistance. Seems that once you're lucky enough to live into your 80s, you like these things that are familiar to you.

So, I'm looking for advice on upgrading their capacity of memory and processor. They did not much more that some light internet browsing, playing music from their iTunes library large enough and how to send photos of the grandchildren. Some years, I transferred a large part of it on a 500 Gig external hard drive. Now MOM has started a new hobby of the genealogy of the family and complained about how slow loading pages.

I opened the side panel on the tower and can guess (with certainty) that I am tha first to do so since he had left the manufacter factory. Need a cleaning before, during and after the upgrade. I invite all advice on how and when to clean up.

It's all the original components: Intel Celeron 2.40 GHZ

256 MB OF RAM

INTEL 82845 G/GL/GE/PE/GV (I guess it's the video card)

running 2002 Windows XP HOME 32-bit EDITION w / SP3

I would like to get Windows and on Unbuntu, but have no knowledge of how, or if, it would have an impact on the choice of new components.

The research I did lead me to think than a new processor 2.8 GHZ with 2 GB of RAM (2 STICKS of I Gig each) would give Mommy all the speed it needs. But, again, don't know what are the components are compatible, or even if these choices are the ones she needs. What you'all think?

Thanks, Tmoose

You need a Northwood Pentium 4 Socket 478

P4 2.8 GHz 400 Mhz FSB SL7EY

And the low density DDR 400 Non buffered ECC INTEL compatible ram. You must update the BIOS using XP or DOS before attempting to change the CPU.   12.04.5 of UBUNTU LTS and most will install side by side with the XP that is already there on an NTFS partition.

RAM DDR 400 will be hard to find, but you want it max to 4 gigs.

You need not what anyone else.

Ubuntu - 12.04.5 - dvd - i386.iso

It resizes your NTFS partition and install UBuntu in its own partition EFS.  When you restart, you can choose Linux or XP.

I do not recommend remove XP but rather to install Ubuntu with XP.

Install Ubuntu after Windows

A Windows operating system must be installed first, because its bootloader is very particular and the installer tends to replace all of the hard drive, erasing all data stored on it. If Windows is not already installed, install it first.

Install Ubuntu

  • Download a Ubuntu LiveCD image (.iso) and burn it to a disk

  • Insert the LiveCD in your CD-ROM drive and restart your PC.
  • If the computer does not start on the CD (for example Windows starts again at the place), reboot and check your BIOS settings by pressing F2, F12, DEL or ESC. Select "boot from CD".
  • Proceed with the installation until you are asked this question: "how you want to partition the drive.
  • Choose the next steps.

Automatic partition resizing (recommended)

  • Choose the first option, which should say 'Install side by side, choosing between them each startup'.
  • Specify the size of the new partition by dragging the slider at the bottom of the window.
  • Click "next".
  • Continue until Complete Installation Ubuntu

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