Rhythm Kid
07-08-2007, 11:25 AM
Going to take it to be diagnosed after i post this. But just tell me what you think.
The computer is a Second Generation Dell XPS I haven't really added anything to it but a little bit more ram so you can say its pretty out dated. But it competes with the computers at most PC arcades/cafes.
Pentium 4 - 3.0Ghz
Ati Radeon 9800 - 128 Mbs
512 Mushkin DDR ram (used to have 1GB)
The good stuff i guess... but you can already imagine what its built with considering it was Dells second generation gaming computer.
Anyways i only really played Lineage 2 on it and nothing else. I had the basic AIM and windows live Messenger, Firefox as my browser, a Norton Anti Virus program ( which i always kept updated ), Winamp, my music ( which i ripped off my CDs ) and litterally NOTHING else.
Anyways the computer ran like a dream. I could run lineage at full graphics and only lag slightly during 100-200 plus people raids. Then one day i started it up and it just ran like shit. It took about 5 minutes to start up. I was at the windows XP ''welcome'' screen for about 3 or 4 minutes, and everything else just took forever to load. shit i would get like, freezes that ranged from 30 seconds to about 1 minute every time i clicked on soemthing.
Anyways i ran a virus and adware scane and found nothing. Did a system restore and that did nothing. So i said fuck it, ill just reformat the drive, theres hardly anything on this thing anyways. So i did that and that didn't help. I did it 3 times actually =/
So now there is nothing on this thing but the bare ass programs i got from the restoration discs. and it still runs like shit.
Thought my processor over heated but it hasn't, and my memory isn't the problem because i took them all out, cleaned the terminals, reinsterted them and still got these annoying freezes. I took them all out and tried running them one by one to see if it was the cards and all them them seem to work fine.
I don't know what the fuck is wrong with this thing but its driving me mad.
What the mother fuck man? any you guys into computers enough to have a idea what this thing's problem is?
The computer is a Second Generation Dell XPS I haven't really added anything to it but a little bit more ram so you can say its pretty out dated. But it competes with the computers at most PC arcades/cafes.
Pentium 4 - 3.0Ghz
Ati Radeon 9800 - 128 Mbs
512 Mushkin DDR ram (used to have 1GB)
The good stuff i guess... but you can already imagine what its built with considering it was Dells second generation gaming computer.
Anyways i only really played Lineage 2 on it and nothing else. I had the basic AIM and windows live Messenger, Firefox as my browser, a Norton Anti Virus program ( which i always kept updated ), Winamp, my music ( which i ripped off my CDs ) and litterally NOTHING else.
Anyways the computer ran like a dream. I could run lineage at full graphics and only lag slightly during 100-200 plus people raids. Then one day i started it up and it just ran like shit. It took about 5 minutes to start up. I was at the windows XP ''welcome'' screen for about 3 or 4 minutes, and everything else just took forever to load. shit i would get like, freezes that ranged from 30 seconds to about 1 minute every time i clicked on soemthing.
Anyways i ran a virus and adware scane and found nothing. Did a system restore and that did nothing. So i said fuck it, ill just reformat the drive, theres hardly anything on this thing anyways. So i did that and that didn't help. I did it 3 times actually =/
So now there is nothing on this thing but the bare ass programs i got from the restoration discs. and it still runs like shit.
Thought my processor over heated but it hasn't, and my memory isn't the problem because i took them all out, cleaned the terminals, reinsterted them and still got these annoying freezes. I took them all out and tried running them one by one to see if it was the cards and all them them seem to work fine.
I don't know what the fuck is wrong with this thing but its driving me mad.
What the mother fuck man? any you guys into computers enough to have a idea what this thing's problem is?