video problem?

[BriGy86]

my friend built a computer a lil while ago and when you go to my music or just some folder and want to click, and hold to select everything they greyish box lags when going over things

he got a pretty cheap vid card so thats what i assume right off the bat

has any one else had problems like these?

the OS is also a pirated version of XP pro, could that be the prob?

 

[imported_JeReMY]

What are the PCs specs?

 

[BriGy86]

oh im sorry

i don't know how accurate they are

but its a shuttle motherboard ($53-$56) with an AMD... barton 2500+ i think

the video card was like a cheap 45 dollar one if i remember right

i also think he has 1 stick of 256 RAM

HDD is new and 80 gigs

let me know if you need more info

 

[BriGy86]

any suggestions?

 

[daveybrat]

Check for viruses and Spyware. Then do a defrag on his hard drive.

You might also wanna increase his ram from 256mb to 512MB as 512mb should be the standard now for most applications. I highly doubt it's his video card causing those symptoms.

 

[BriGy86]

i don't think its a virus, i gave him AVG along with ad-aware and spybot (all recently up to date)

i also have run trend micro and panda scan on it, but the defrag might help, thanks

i didn't really know if a bad or cheap vid card could cause those types of problems

 

[daveybrat]

Let us know what kind of card it is so we can better help you.

Also really try to recommend he upgrade his ram to 512MB.

 

[BriGy86]

yeah he's cheap though ill try that defrag then look at his card

 

[BriGy86]

could it also be a slow CPU?

ill get back to you with the specs on it

 

[BriGy86]

ok i guess he has 512 or RAM but hasn't defragged it

the CPU is barton 2500 athalon xp

he says his vid card is pci and real ghetto the brand is 3 com

i didn't know it was PCI im guessing thats the prob right there

 

[BriGy86]

fixed it, it just needed a new vid card