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- Jul 1, 2004
Firstly, I'm running a XP 2000+ T-bred with an A7N8X-E Delux motherboard 256 megs of mem (DDR not sure on the speed) a 9800pro and a couple WD HDs. Just recently it's become severely unstable. I go to boot it up and then the mouse refuses to work, I go and unplug the mouse and then plug it back in and it doesn't help at all, and then the comp freezes completely and after a few (30) seconds the monitor goes blank. Sometimes it'll reset itself, others I've got to turn it off on the switch in the back and try to turn it back on several times. I finally got it to boot normally and got into windows and once it got to that point it seemed to be stable. But after I scanned the HD for bad sectors and rebooted the comp, it did it again. I got it to boot normally again and I'm posting from it right now, but I'm still worried that one of my components is on it's last legs. (I'm praying it's not the video card.)
I've got no formal training and never dealt with a problem quite like this before. If anyone could help me to at least find out what's happening to cause this, or help me isolate the problem I'd greatly apreciate it.
EDIT: Oh, and I'm not ocing, I've got everything at stock speeds.
I've got no formal training and never dealt with a problem quite like this before. If anyone could help me to at least find out what's happening to cause this, or help me isolate the problem I'd greatly apreciate it.
EDIT: Oh, and I'm not ocing, I've got everything at stock speeds.