I'll get cpuz and let you know. The weird thing is THOUGHT that right before I formatted it was booting up quickly. Do you think it could be the dvd rom drive? Cause half the time it works the other half it doesn't. So maybe when it installed xp it skipped some IMPORTANT files or something?DVD ROM shouldn't matter. Windows just loads its driver, and that's it. Even if driver is corrupted, Windows would tell you, and skip its loading. It can't have any impact on your Windows being slow AFTER boot is done.Here are images from CPU-Z

CPU tab


Cache Tab


Mainboard Tab


Memory Tab


Ram slot 1


Ram Slot 2
Did that RAM set up came with your laptop, or you played with it?
How old is this laptop?
I'm asking, because I can see this:
- Slot #1 - 128MB, PC2300
- Slot #2 - 512MB, PC2100
Normally bigger stick would go to slot #1, and also RAM speed is slightly different.
Did you check on Dell site, if this is right?My uncle bought it from craigslist. So I'm not exactly sure how old it is and it could have probably been MESSED around with before. But when my uncle got it, it seemed to run fine.Let me check Dell site...No luck here. What about you guys..any ideas?Were you getting disk read errors before the format ? ?
If so go to Control Panel/System/Hardware/Device Manager...right click on Primary IDE channel and select Properties...is it in PIO MODE ? ?
If so you want to switch it to DMA mode and UDMA if available.

p.s. If it's the original HDD you may want to visit the drive manuf site for the free diagnostics and run them on that drive to see how healthy it is...It is set on DMA. I am burning Hitachi's diagnostic program right now.
Does this problem have anything to do with the laptop not detecting the battery? It was doing this before and my uncle told me that he bought a new one and used all the battery power and the AC Adapter didn't charge it. I LOOKED into bios and it said the battery isn't plugged in.