your ram wasent installed correctly, thats why you you started smelling something buring. the motherbaord is most likely gone.
You have pulled out those ram sticks and tried it again right?
no the graphics can not be upgraded in that laptop. the only laptops that can have the graphics upgraded are the high end DELL XPS, and alieanware laptops the cost like $3500+
hay and ask all the questions you want, with our a ton of questions this site would be nothing.
your not really getting that speed, you need to test using ie or firefox don't do a speed test in the aol software they cache everything locally so it gives you a cached result.
alex103188 welcome to the forum.
nice speed, what is your advertised, and who is your ISP. you may also want to try this test
http://www.testmy.net/tools/test/d_load.php?step1_timed=&step1_size=&step1_validation=&testall=&s=12160&st=st&ni=ni&ta=&top=&tt=1&nobar=
ya a floppy is probally still the best thing for this, it can be down with a cd if you were using it as a Direct CD but that really doesnt work to well.