Okay a month ago I built this PC and have had nothing but problems with it!
Specs:
Intel Pentium 4 2.8GHz
Hercules ATi Radeon 9700 Pro
AC97 Onboard sound (You will see why below)
1024MB Kingston PC2700 DDR Ram
52x24x52 CD-R/RW drive
Windows XP Pro w/ SP1.
SoYo SY-P4I 845PE Lite motherboard.
Problem 1: Lockups, overheating, BSOD in games, random rebooting.
It turns out the P4 was defective. So I sent it back and got a new one. w00t! Just got it the other day.
Problem 2: Lock ups in games still occured.
I tried everything, I got the latest drivers from hercules as the ATi official drivers will not work with hercules cards... Finally I decided to check the site for the sound blaster I had in the PC at the time. Turns out that since my speakers squealed on game freezing it was a hardware conflict with the SB Audigy Gamer, so I took that out and switched to onboard sound. So then UT2k3 worked great, except maybe one in 20 times I would play it it would freeze.
Problem 3: Everything worked expect warcraft. It would freeze when trying to download and install patches, it would freeze when offline games first started, it would freeze at the menu.
Never could fix that one, I emailed Hercules and Soyo. Soyo told me to reset the CMOS, load fail safe bios defaults, install the newest intel chipset drivers and that would fix it, it never did.
Problem 4: Now there are random lockups. Sometimes in notepad, sometimes in IE, sometimes in Outlook, mostly when watching a video. I just don't know what to do. It just locks up and there is nothing I can do, I have tried everything and I can't fix it. I was told to come here because the members here are supposed to be really smart and helpful. So please I beg of you, help me here.
Specs:
Intel Pentium 4 2.8GHz
Hercules ATi Radeon 9700 Pro
AC97 Onboard sound (You will see why below)
1024MB Kingston PC2700 DDR Ram
52x24x52 CD-R/RW drive
Windows XP Pro w/ SP1.
SoYo SY-P4I 845PE Lite motherboard.
Problem 1: Lockups, overheating, BSOD in games, random rebooting.
It turns out the P4 was defective. So I sent it back and got a new one. w00t! Just got it the other day.
Problem 2: Lock ups in games still occured.
I tried everything, I got the latest drivers from hercules as the ATi official drivers will not work with hercules cards... Finally I decided to check the site for the sound blaster I had in the PC at the time. Turns out that since my speakers squealed on game freezing it was a hardware conflict with the SB Audigy Gamer, so I took that out and switched to onboard sound. So then UT2k3 worked great, except maybe one in 20 times I would play it it would freeze.
Problem 3: Everything worked expect warcraft. It would freeze when trying to download and install patches, it would freeze when offline games first started, it would freeze at the menu.
Never could fix that one, I emailed Hercules and Soyo. Soyo told me to reset the CMOS, load fail safe bios defaults, install the newest intel chipset drivers and that would fix it, it never did.
Problem 4: Now there are random lockups. Sometimes in notepad, sometimes in IE, sometimes in Outlook, mostly when watching a video. I just don't know what to do. It just locks up and there is nothing I can do, I have tried everything and I can't fix it. I was told to come here because the members here are supposed to be really smart and helpful. So please I beg of you, help me here.
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