Hi, i wno't bother talking about benig new, as my post count can do the talking 🙂
Anyway, I was wondering if any of you could give me some form of insight on this strange problem I've been having. Before I begin, here are my hardware specs:
Celeron 900
128MB SDRAM
ASUS TUSI-M Socket 370 Motherboard (bleh, probably the culprit... i had to have it replaced, as the first one just died within an huor... garbage, if you ask me)
Some Maxtor 20gig HD... the rest matters not, as sound, video and ethernet are onboard. (the video is sharing RAM though, if it makes a difference).
In any case, here are the symptoms:
The first symptom was that stuff was sometimes slow to load. Not always, just "sometimes" you know? And occasionally (one boot out of 10 maybe?) I would get a "could not read registry" error, but it would then reboot and restore, and things would work "fine" for a while. In any case, these registry errors occured more and more frequently, until at some point, Explorer just could not be launched (I would get an illegal operation). Reformatting did NOT help at all, as this would happen right after the first windows bootup, which clearly indicates hardware problems, and worse yet, hardware deterioration (which means that if I replace something, then odds are it will work again for a little while, and get screwed up again eventually - not very reliable to take it to computer store).
But I wasn't sure of this, so I tested with another stick of RAM, and everything worked fine... Until recently. I've noticed today that I cannot play movie files as nicely as I could a few days ago. Cold boot does not help this. It's just choppy, which seems to indicate that something is dying. Probably the ram again. (and of course, stuff is still slow to load... like, it opens halfway, freezes for 30 seconds, and continues)
So anyway, would you happen to have any insight as to why this could be happening? I would not be surprised if it was the motherboard again. It could be that, or the power supply might be faulty, and is slowly frying the RAM or something... who knows... well, I am hoping you folks do 🙂
so, any ideas? I don't want this to get too expensive... frying a stick of RAM everytime a prediction is wrong is not a good idea. Thanks in advance for your help.
(other symptom - quake 3 crashes after running for a little while - but it runs perfectly smoothly while it does. It almost seems like it loads stuff into RAM, but then doesn't know where to start otr stop or something)
tamas
Anyway, I was wondering if any of you could give me some form of insight on this strange problem I've been having. Before I begin, here are my hardware specs:
Celeron 900
128MB SDRAM
ASUS TUSI-M Socket 370 Motherboard (bleh, probably the culprit... i had to have it replaced, as the first one just died within an huor... garbage, if you ask me)
Some Maxtor 20gig HD... the rest matters not, as sound, video and ethernet are onboard. (the video is sharing RAM though, if it makes a difference).
In any case, here are the symptoms:
The first symptom was that stuff was sometimes slow to load. Not always, just "sometimes" you know? And occasionally (one boot out of 10 maybe?) I would get a "could not read registry" error, but it would then reboot and restore, and things would work "fine" for a while. In any case, these registry errors occured more and more frequently, until at some point, Explorer just could not be launched (I would get an illegal operation). Reformatting did NOT help at all, as this would happen right after the first windows bootup, which clearly indicates hardware problems, and worse yet, hardware deterioration (which means that if I replace something, then odds are it will work again for a little while, and get screwed up again eventually - not very reliable to take it to computer store).
But I wasn't sure of this, so I tested with another stick of RAM, and everything worked fine... Until recently. I've noticed today that I cannot play movie files as nicely as I could a few days ago. Cold boot does not help this. It's just choppy, which seems to indicate that something is dying. Probably the ram again. (and of course, stuff is still slow to load... like, it opens halfway, freezes for 30 seconds, and continues)
So anyway, would you happen to have any insight as to why this could be happening? I would not be surprised if it was the motherboard again. It could be that, or the power supply might be faulty, and is slowly frying the RAM or something... who knows... well, I am hoping you folks do 🙂
so, any ideas? I don't want this to get too expensive... frying a stick of RAM everytime a prediction is wrong is not a good idea. Thanks in advance for your help.
(other symptom - quake 3 crashes after running for a little while - but it runs perfectly smoothly while it does. It almost seems like it loads stuff into RAM, but then doesn't know where to start otr stop or something)
tamas
