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Technical Help & Discussion => Self Building, Upgrading & General Hardware Help => Topic started by: princeofdarkness on April 15, 2004, 15:39

Title: crashing:upgrade needed?
Post by: princeofdarkness on April 15, 2004, 15:39: hi

i am on my dads computer and it crashes ALOT so i was wondering if it had anything to do with the hardware.. also sometimes it doesnt crash it just suddenly restarts itself ???

here is the spec of my dads pc:

Windows Millennium Edition (build 4.90.3000) No details available
Processor a Main Circuit Board b
900 megahertz AMD Duron
128 kilobyte primary memory cache
64 kilobyte secondary memory cache Board: First International Computer, Inc. AZ11EA/AZ11E PCB 1.x
Bus Clock: 100 megahertz
BIOS: Award Software International, Inc. 6.00 PG 09/27/2001
Drives Memory Modules c,d
40.98 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
32.86 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space

LITE-ON LTR-16102C [CD-ROM drive]
Generic floppy disk drive (3.5")

Generic IDE hard disk drive (40.98 GB) -- drive 0, No SMART Driver 768 Megabytes Installed Memory

Slot 'BANK_0' has 256 MB
Slot 'BANK_1' has 512 MB
Slot 'BANK_2' is Empty
Local Drive Volumes

c: (on drive 0) 40.98 GB 32.86 GB free

Network Drives

Users Printers
Boys
Gerrys
hp psc 2170 series on USB001

Controllers Display
Standard Floppy Disk Controller
Primary IDE controller (dual fifo)
Secondary IDE controller (dual fifo)
VIA Bus Master PCI IDE Controller NVIDIA GeForce2 MX/MX 400 [Display adapter]
Default Monitor
Default Monitor
Bus Adapters Multimedia
VIA Tech 3038 PCI to USB Universal Host Controller
VIA Tech 3038 PCI to USB Universal Host Controller Closed Caption Decoder
Creative SB Live! series(WDM)
Game Port for Creative SB Live!
Gameport Joystick (no joystick connected)
NABTS/FEC VBI Codec
VIA AC'97 Audio Controller (WDM)
Communications Other Devices
Standard 56000 bps K56Flex Modem
SMC EZ Card 10/100 (SMC1255TX)
TV Data Adapter
Network Card MAC Address: 00:04:E2:1F:26:1C
Network IP Address: 81.99.14.63 / 24 Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural Keyboard
USB Root Hub
USB Root Hub

NOTE: the processor is being upgraded to an amd xp athlon 2600/2800

he has broadband.. have you got any suggestions?

thanx in advance Jonah
Title: Re:crashing:upgrade needed?
Post by: Simon on April 15, 2004, 15:51: Is this since you installed the new graphics card, Jonah, or was it doing it before that?
Title: Re:crashing:upgrade needed?
Post by: princeofdarkness on April 15, 2004, 15:57: it did it a bit before that but yes it seems to have gotten worse.. also when it crashes theres a thick line of coloured fuzz (like on a tv wiv no reception but multi coloured) and then if i press something it comes up the blue screen with white writing about a problem sayin press any key to continue or press ctrl+alt+del to restart...

if i press enter it comes up a black screen with a box saying dangerously low resources :-\

also when the computer is loading the screen flashes blue :o

Jonah
Title: Re:crashing:upgrade needed?
Post by: Sandra on April 15, 2004, 16:36: Try getting the latest 4 in 1 drivers from here :

http://www.viaarena.com/?PageID=300

Also check that you have the latest drivers for your graphics card
Title: Re:crashing:upgrade needed?
Post by: princeofdarkness on April 15, 2004, 16:42: which 1 shall i pick?
Title: Re:crashing:upgrade needed?
Post by: Sandra on April 15, 2004, 16:43: This one :

HTTP Download
VIAHyperion4in1v4.51.zip
Title: Re:crashing:upgrade needed?
Post by: princeofdarkness on April 15, 2004, 16:46: ok thanx is it compatible with windows ME

Jonah
Title: Re:crashing:upgrade needed?
Post by: Sandra on April 15, 2004, 16:51: It says so just above the download :)
Title: Re:crashing:upgrade needed?
Post by: princeofdarkness on April 15, 2004, 16:53: lol sorry.. not very good at finding useful information ::)
Title: Re:crashing:upgrade needed?
Post by: princeofdarkness on April 15, 2004, 17:01: i installed it and restarted but it was still flickering?