This message is rather long, but I hope you have the time to read this:
When I got my lovely new PC, I gave my old Compaq Presario 5000 to my (older
) brother. However, the Compaq PC began giving lots of nasty problems ever since I started purchasing components for this new PC (kinda ironic; if I knew I'd get replaced, I wouldn't cooperate either ). The problem is that the PC randomly freezes. No BSOD or whatever; it just freezes. The mouse and keyboard don't respond at all, music stops playing if it's playing, etc. It's gone to a complete halt. Only a cold reboot will fix it temporarily before it crashes again. I sorta narrowed it down to the AGP slot or one of the circuitry from the AGP slot to wherever in the motherboard.
I tested this with two graphics cards: the old TNT2 M64 (was installed by default in the Compaq PC; it has always worked perfectly) and Leadtek GeForce4 MX440 (upgrade for the Compaq PC). In both cases, the PC randomly freezes, so I know it's not the graphics card's fault.
One suspect is the AGP slot, because when I touch the card and move it up and down very very slightly while the PC is still running, it immediately freezes. Doing this on another PC with a different graphics card has no influence on the PC's performance: it just kept running happily. I've also seen the Compaq PC not booting at all or getting stuck during the graphics card's POST messages.
Another thing to tell you before you can help me by giving advice or certainty about this problem is that once the PC freezed and WinFox 2.0 (a monitoring and control program) displayed a message that there was an overvoltage on the MX440 graphics card. I'm guessing the PSU suddenly had a high peak in power supply and overloaded the circuitry to the AGP slot. Fortunately, the graphics card itself was/is not damaged.
So either the AGP slot is dodgy (I even cleaned up the interior of the PC and blew away the dust) or the circuitry is damaged due to this overvoltage thingie.
Now, what do you think? Is it really what I think it is? Or do you suspect something else? I need to have this fixed, because it annoys my brother. Oh, and warranty has already expired (we have had this PC for 4 - 5 years).
Compaq Presario 5000
AMD Duron 800MHz
320MB SDRAM
20GB Western Digital HDD
Leadtek GeForce4 MX440
When I got my lovely new PC, I gave my old Compaq Presario 5000 to my (older
) brother. However, the Compaq PC began giving lots of nasty problems ever since I started purchasing components for this new PC (kinda ironic; if I knew I'd get replaced, I wouldn't cooperate either ). The problem is that the PC randomly freezes. No BSOD or whatever; it just freezes. The mouse and keyboard don't respond at all, music stops playing if it's playing, etc. It's gone to a complete halt. Only a cold reboot will fix it temporarily before it crashes again. I sorta narrowed it down to the AGP slot or one of the circuitry from the AGP slot to wherever in the motherboard.I tested this with two graphics cards: the old TNT2 M64 (was installed by default in the Compaq PC; it has always worked perfectly) and Leadtek GeForce4 MX440 (upgrade for the Compaq PC). In both cases, the PC randomly freezes, so I know it's not the graphics card's fault.
One suspect is the AGP slot, because when I touch the card and move it up and down very very slightly while the PC is still running, it immediately freezes. Doing this on another PC with a different graphics card has no influence on the PC's performance: it just kept running happily. I've also seen the Compaq PC not booting at all or getting stuck during the graphics card's POST messages.
Another thing to tell you before you can help me by giving advice or certainty about this problem is that once the PC freezed and WinFox 2.0 (a monitoring and control program) displayed a message that there was an overvoltage on the MX440 graphics card. I'm guessing the PSU suddenly had a high peak in power supply and overloaded the circuitry to the AGP slot. Fortunately, the graphics card itself was/is not damaged.
So either the AGP slot is dodgy (I even cleaned up the interior of the PC and blew away the dust) or the circuitry is damaged due to this overvoltage thingie.
Now, what do you think? Is it really what I think it is? Or do you suspect something else? I need to have this fixed, because it annoys my brother.
Oh, and warranty has already expired (we have had this PC for 4 - 5 years).Compaq Presario 5000
AMD Duron 800MHz
320MB SDRAM
20GB Western Digital HDD
Leadtek GeForce4 MX440
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