ASUS A7N8X Deluxe NFORCE2 MB | AMD XP2600/333 CPU | Corsair XMS Twin 2700 (512 megs total/two sticks) | Powercolor Radeon 9700 Pro Video | Maxtor 7200rpm ATA 100 20 gig hard drive (til the SATA drives become available) | Onboard Storm Sound | Lite On 48x24x48 Burner | Floppy
I am playing Everquest (yah yah I hear ya) and the system is "hitching" (graphics freezes often related to latency but sometimes can indicate system issue as well)like a big dog and hard drive is reading like crazy. However I had been having connection issues that my cable company was working on and attributed it to that. However, this morning I power up, open MS Word to start on some homework and the system runs like a duck frozen in ice. Ten minutes to double click an icon and the program to finally open. I try to close and forget it. Program not responding. Then entire system stops responding. Reboot, post moves fine but when actually loading OS...it takes nearly 5 minutes and then for desktop to completely load took almost ten. Reboot... Same thing, nothing will open, everything stops responding completely again. Reboot, ..same thing.
No abnormal sounds, smells or vibrations. I go about trying narrow the problem down by removing sticks of RAM and placing them in one at a time in slot designated for single stick operation and reboot. Same problem. Remove that stick and pop in the other. WOAH! Flying like a rocket..everything is fine! I think everything is cool, I have found my problem. Nope, remove that stick and put the other back in again and system was still flying without a single problem it seemed. Trade them out a few more times with the same result, system is operating fine. Or not...after a few tries at this, system showed signs of problems again with either ram stick or both installed again. So I rule out RAM.
I am a bit stuck and would appreciate help, I will provide any information needed to assist in diagnosis.
Questor
I am playing Everquest (yah yah I hear ya) and the system is "hitching" (graphics freezes often related to latency but sometimes can indicate system issue as well)like a big dog and hard drive is reading like crazy. However I had been having connection issues that my cable company was working on and attributed it to that. However, this morning I power up, open MS Word to start on some homework and the system runs like a duck frozen in ice. Ten minutes to double click an icon and the program to finally open. I try to close and forget it. Program not responding. Then entire system stops responding. Reboot, post moves fine but when actually loading OS...it takes nearly 5 minutes and then for desktop to completely load took almost ten. Reboot... Same thing, nothing will open, everything stops responding completely again. Reboot, ..same thing.
No abnormal sounds, smells or vibrations. I go about trying narrow the problem down by removing sticks of RAM and placing them in one at a time in slot designated for single stick operation and reboot. Same problem. Remove that stick and pop in the other. WOAH! Flying like a rocket..everything is fine! I think everything is cool, I have found my problem. Nope, remove that stick and put the other back in again and system was still flying without a single problem it seemed. Trade them out a few more times with the same result, system is operating fine. Or not...after a few tries at this, system showed signs of problems again with either ram stick or both installed again. So I rule out RAM.
I am a bit stuck and would appreciate help, I will provide any information needed to assist in diagnosis.
Questor
