- Joined
- Oct 14, 2002
- Location
- New Mexico
I was told by a friend to come here, seems like you guys know your stuff 
First of all, my computer freezes fairly frequently when I play online games. Normally I would think upgrading was the answer, but I played the same games on a comp which was 400mhz, 64MB ram, and had an 8mb vid card (I have 1.4ghz, 128ram, 16mb card now). I was told that it could be a problem with my modem. Is that true or is it something else? Just so you know, the sys requirements for the game I play is 166mhz, 64MB Ram, 8MB vid card.
Anyway, since it makes my comp freeze, I have to hit the restart button on the comp (which I know isn't good for it). I think that caused the following problem, massive amounts of explorer and IE errors (corrupted the files?). Explorer and IE crash about 1/3 of the time I start my computer. I just downloaded an update, so the problem may be solved. Explorer hasn't crashed this time. Again, since it only crashed 1/3 of the time, I won't know until I use the comp for a few more days.
I cannot complete Scandisk or Defrag. I have no other programs running when I start, but both programs usually end up restarting every 10 seconds. Once I recieved a message stating that the possible problem was that a Disk Utility program was interfering with Scandisk, although I haven't recieved that message again. A friend told me it may be a Fat32 problem. However I don't know that for sure, and I don't know how to fix it if that is indeed the problem. I'm fairly computer illiterate.
I use the MSN Gaming Zone, which runs on Java. Except for once or twice, the Zone hasn't had any Java related problems for me. However, at geocities, launching a certain program requires Java (can't see the link for it unless Java works). Unfortunately, I can't see the link (although I could about 2 months ago). I downloaded Java and reinstalled it, that didn't help.
Just so you know, my OS is Win98.
I'm sorry if I posted this in the wrong forum. Since I had so many problems I wasn't sure where to post the message.
First of all, my computer freezes fairly frequently when I play online games. Normally I would think upgrading was the answer, but I played the same games on a comp which was 400mhz, 64MB ram, and had an 8mb vid card (I have 1.4ghz, 128ram, 16mb card now). I was told that it could be a problem with my modem. Is that true or is it something else? Just so you know, the sys requirements for the game I play is 166mhz, 64MB Ram, 8MB vid card.
Anyway, since it makes my comp freeze, I have to hit the restart button on the comp (which I know isn't good for it). I think that caused the following problem, massive amounts of explorer and IE errors (corrupted the files?). Explorer and IE crash about 1/3 of the time I start my computer. I just downloaded an update, so the problem may be solved. Explorer hasn't crashed this time. Again, since it only crashed 1/3 of the time, I won't know until I use the comp for a few more days.
I cannot complete Scandisk or Defrag. I have no other programs running when I start, but both programs usually end up restarting every 10 seconds. Once I recieved a message stating that the possible problem was that a Disk Utility program was interfering with Scandisk, although I haven't recieved that message again. A friend told me it may be a Fat32 problem. However I don't know that for sure, and I don't know how to fix it if that is indeed the problem. I'm fairly computer illiterate.
I use the MSN Gaming Zone, which runs on Java. Except for once or twice, the Zone hasn't had any Java related problems for me. However, at geocities, launching a certain program requires Java (can't see the link for it unless Java works). Unfortunately, I can't see the link (although I could about 2 months ago). I downloaded Java and reinstalled it, that didn't help.
Just so you know, my OS is Win98.
I'm sorry if I posted this in the wrong forum. Since I had so many problems I wasn't sure where to post the message.
