Computer about to be thrown out of the window
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From: Blinky the Shark on 6 Feb 2005 16:53 ["Followup-To:" header set to 24hoursupport.helpdesk.] Trent SC wrote: > My colleague has mongrel PC with the following spec: > ECS P61WT-A+ board with a Celeron 766, 384MB RAM, onboard Intel i810 ^^^ > graphics, 10GB HDD and running Windows 98se. The BIOS is Award Modular v > 6.00 PG; P61WT-A+ Ver. 1.0h 11/08/1999. Do you need any more information? Having read (and snipped) your tribulations, my money's on the mobo. I don't think ECS stands very high on the confidence chart, from what I've heard here and there. (No, I've not used an ECS board myself.) -- Blinky Linux Registered User 297263 Who has implemented Usenet Solution #45933: Now killing all posts made with User-Agent G2
From: Alf Keiles on 6 Feb 2005 16:56 Hi There, I Sympathise with you I've had mine almost 8 years, I keep updating it at a helluva cost and it's getting slower and slower and confusing I have the monitor on the window sill and my good lady has to stop me several times per day from pushing it out of the window Alf "Trent SC" <trent(a)invalid.invalid> wrote in message news:36nenjF4p9m8hU1(a)individual.net... > Bloody computers! > > My colleague has mongrel PC with the following spec: > ECS P61WT-A+ board with a Celeron 766, 384MB RAM, onboard Intel i810 > graphics, 10GB HDD and running Windows 98se. The BIOS is Award Modular v > 6.00 PG; P61WT-A+ Ver. 1.0h 11/08/1999. Do you need any more information? > > It's been hanging on a regular basis (3 or more times a day, often when > online - IE6), so I opted to install Windows XP this afternoon, and took > the opportunity to remover the slightly ancient Trident 9440 graphics card > and return to the onboard graphics. I also replaced the hard drive with a > spare, freshly formatted 15GB FAT32 Seagate drive, just in case it all > went pear-shaped. I also replaced the RAM, going from 128 to 384 with a > pair of fresh sticks which tested fine on two memory testers. > > The installation went fine, but the computer hung during the installation > of SP2 (the very first thing I did after XP was on) and while SP2 took > fine once I'd rebooted, and Office 2000 went on fine, it's continued to > hang, most often when I'm in My Computer and mousing over an icon in Tiles > view format. And I didn't get a chance to go online before it hung, so I > just took out the new hard drive and shoved the old one back in before I > lost it completely. > > This is driving me crazy - I'm using different graphics, new RAM, new hard > drive and new system and application software. The only common factors > which might have an influence are the PSU, motherboard and processor. > There are no heat issues going on and the two fans - PSU and CPU are > spinning efficiently. I can only think that there must be something > fundamental going on in the motherboard or processor, but if anyone else > has any brillinat ideas, I'd be very, very pleased to hear them! >
From: Duane Arnold on 6 Feb 2005 16:59 Dr. Harvie Wahl-Banghor wrote: > Increase your hard drive space......delete my posts!
From: Duane Arnold on 6 Feb 2005 17:00 Dr. Harvie Wahl-Banghor wrote: > Boycott shampoo, demand real poo instead.
From: Duane Arnold on 6 Feb 2005 17:04
Dr. Harvie Wahl-Banghor wrote: > WOW! I hypnotised a brick! |