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12-03-2004, 03:52 AM
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| Newb Techie Join Date: Dec 2004
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|  I need help with my PC... Hi all i just joined this forum after it was recomended by friend of mine. this is my PC config : -Windows XP Pro SP1 -AMD athlon 2400+ -GeForce FX5200 128MB -512MB ram about a month ago a weird problem started to occur on my PC. My pc started to hang unconditionaly. if i leave my pc idle it would hang every 20-30 mins.Once hung the only way to restat was to do a HARD Reset. But still it would hang. I re-installed my Windows but the problem didnt go away. Ok thats the begining. I could live through all that hanging but last week another crazy thing started hapening. I got myself a copy of Vampire the masquerade: Bloodlines and it worked nicely for almost a week, i completed a major portion of the game too without facing any of the bugs. Then last week the game started to hang up too however when i would return to windows ,after killing the game (ctrl+alt+del), windows would work fine and hang after the 20-30 min limit. I thot it was a problem with the game and returned it and got a copy of NFSU2 now this game hung at the very begining, just after the opening cutscenes. I tried installing some older games to check and all of them hung. Even the older ones like vampire the Masquerade and MaxPayne. I updated my drivers and still nothing happned. Could some one pls help me with this problem .....I cant Play games and its making me go crazy...     |
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12-03-2004, 05:37 AM
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| Ultra Techie Join Date: Jun 2004
Posts: 973
 |  nitrolux, OKie, few suggestions... Run a full scandisk and a defragment on your hard disk. Any errors in the disc might make the system hang. Reinstall your graphic card drivers, if possible get the latest update from nvidia site. Check your RAM with memtest86 You haven't overclocked your processror..rite? anyz ,check your mobo/processor temperatures |
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12-03-2004, 07:04 AM
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| True Techie Join Date: May 2004
Posts: 159
| well i have a solution that has never failed me to this day. its called (wait for it)............. FORMAT (FORMAT EVERYTHING ON YOUR HARDDRIVE BUT MAKE BACKUPS OF ALL YOUR GAMES AND SAVES FIRST.)
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12-03-2004, 07:24 AM
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| True Techie Join Date: May 2004
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| ya. but it has never failed. from what i have heard YOU NEED FORMAT. YOUR PC HAS SOME SERIOUS PROBLEMS THAT I DONT THINK ONE COULD EVER SORT OUT COMPLETELY. just format you wont regret it. just backup you games and saves format reinstall your OS and drivers and games and you pc will be as good as new. of course make sure that its not a hardware problem before you format.
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12-03-2004, 02:11 PM
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| Newb Techie Join Date: Dec 2004
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| ok done that still have probs.... hi there again guys... I just finished reformatting my pc (as in 100% reformat) i got the latest drivers for my GPU ver 66.93. I dont have the computer hanging problem now though but the game hanging issue still exists i tried runnin my games at low res but regardless it hangs.... Is it my GPU that has a problem...??? |
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12-03-2004, 05:55 PM
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| Monster Techie Join Date: Dec 2004
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| Re: ok done that still have probs.... Quote:
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