Comp probs.......again

[FAQ]

Wow, just my luck. I recently took my computer back to my retailer due to the insane lowness of it. 600 Athlon, K7M mobo, 128 ram, geforce ddr and yet it ran like a 233 pentium. So they said they'd fix it in about 4 days. Well 3 weeks later I get a call asking for my password. Grrr, so a week later (2 days ago) they say it's ready for pickup. Woohoo, so I get it back and try to benchmark it using starcraft. I know it takes about 20 secs or less to load up on a 300 p2 so it shouldn't be any slower than that, if anything atleast faster. It took about 1 min to load up before I had them fix it so atleast I had something to compare it too. (Yeah, I know Starcraft isn't exactly a benchmark program but it's *all* I have/had)

So after the install I boot it up. Needless to say it took 5! mins to load up and afterwards it was so choppy I had to quit before selecting "Single Player" OK, this sucks....so I hit Exit and it desides to crash instead of Exit. Hm, great.....by the way, it crashed twice before even starting starcraft. I'm running Win 2000 and I have a 250 power supply.

Besides taking it back, again, to the retailer, is there anything I could/should do to get this thing running??

Thanks for the help, and no I haven't even touched any of the drivers as of yet. (Had to go to work before I could even check)

 

[Adul]

Doesn't sound right at all.

Who makes the comp?

What apps load when you boot into win2k?

I would unistall all uneeded crap from the computer. Better yet,if you feel up to task, run a clean install of win2k, and load only the stuff you need. Make sure the Hard drive and the CD-ROM are on a different IDE channel. ATA 66 drives with ATA 33 drives on the same channel tend to slow the faster drives down. So always seperate them when possible. You might also want to consider running a defreag several times on your system, and then a once a week after that.( especially after you unstall uneeded apps) Win2k also seems to like lots of memory, so popping in another 128 Mb wouldn't hurt. Has for the retail store you bought your comp from, I would have blown up on them for taking so long to try to fix my comp. And I would have been even madder if they didn't get it right. Maybe you can have them do a clean OS install and tell them what exactly you want loaded. General prebuilt comps come loaded with soo much crap it bogs your PC down to very unusable levels.

 

[helloedchen]

<< 600 Athlon, K7M mobo, 128 ram, geforce ddr and yet it ran like a 233 pentium >>



umm...how did this happen? was it always like this? Maybe your retailer isn't exactly selling you a A 600

 

[FAQ]

They did reinstall windows 2000 so it has nothing at all added except starcraft. I have no idea how to split the ATA 66/33 (I don't even know what you're talking about)

128 megs of ram is plenty.


Yeah, about the super slow speed........I have *no* idea why it runs like this, I think this time instead of telling them it's slow, I'll show them the 5 minute load time =)


heh, I'm screwed

hey, what's l33t stand for anyway? I know/think 3=e but leet doesn't ring a bell to me either


thanks

 

[Prodigy^]

tell the jerk to give you your money back and buy a computer another place.....this constant switching hands isn't going to lead anywhere and you'll end up with a useless computer if you don't bug him NOW for your cash

 

[FAQ]

yeah, I've been thinking about asking for a refund but I'm too much of a wuss.

the only thing that really sucks is that I spent $1300 for a system that WAS top o the line but now hardly anything to brag about


I haven't gotten a chance to even use the damn thing