My new machine.

[Deadlokd]

After using my trusty Athlon 2400 for the last six years They has finally entered the modern computing age. I have a nice entry level computer. Hooray! Athlon 3600+ 64 X2, gig of DDR2 RAM, potential for PCI-E card. I'm happy. Even though I only have a gig of RAM and I'm sharing that with onboard graphics I can see the difference. I loike it.

[Deadlokd]

And now I'm getting annoyed. Twice now the screen has gone haywire and the computer has refused to respond. Then when I press the reset button it takes ages to find the IDE drives and then doesn't see the slaved DVD drive. I turn the computer off, then back on and it's all good again. The first time it was reading off a flash drive, the second time I was playing Empire Earth 2. Anyone got any ideas?

[But]

Anyone got any ideas?

That's not a good machine.


:P

[Deadlokd]

No one likes a smart arse. Hence my lack of friends.

[But]

Does it have temperature monitoring drivers? Also, try taking out one of the RAMs in turn if there are several.

[Deadlokd]

The temperature is fine and unfortunately it only has one stick of RAM at the moment. If it persists I'll take it in and get him to check it.

[viscousmemories]

I wish I could help but I'm not much of a hardware guru. I stopped building my own systems years ago in favor of buying Dells.

[Deadlokd]

It hasn't had a problem since. Hopefully they were just teething problems. I'm back to liking it, although it still stutters during EE2.