FERKING COMPUTERS !!!!

[~Stef~]

PREHAPS THIS SHOULD BE IN THE 'RANT' SECTION !

After spending another £92 on upgrading to 1Gb of ram and a OEM version of XP home this ferking thing is still playing up, crashes after 5-10 minutes whilst playing games.

Getting an unknown device message, i checked all the devices including those not normally shown and every ones ok no little yellow question marks.
I think its got to be the graphics card. Its a 256mb Radeon ive downloaded the latest drivers, ive tried running with no drivers, i've un-installed the audio drivers and ferk all makes a difference 5 minutes game play and re-boot !!!!

Two options as I see it, either do yet another clean install and add one driver at a time to see when the games crash, or buy/beg/borrow/steal another graphics card and see what happens.

Constructive criticisms welcome

Stef

 

[Steve]

Is it one or two games in particular? Have you checked to see whether there are any patches available?

 

[redcastle]

Whats the motherboard Stef ???

take the side off and see if you have a VIA square thingy on the motherboard or an SIS square thingy on the mohterboard

 

[Steve]

see if you have a VIA square thingy on the motherboard or an SIS square thingy

I just love techno-geek speak....

 

[needlongerlegs]

I just love techno-geek speak....

Someone call....TechnoGeek here,

Have you looked in the event log to see vot is hapening?

Hit Start, Control panel, Admin Tools, Event Viewer, Applications...n System

Look for red blobs and yellow blobs....LOL write down event ID for us

Good place to start, can you describe "crashes" is it blue screen of death?? or just hang or wot..

I'll help if you give me info. G

 

[Fanum]

If it's crashing in the middle of gaming, it could well be a GPU heat issue, particularly if it's a whizzy aftermarket card.

Might be worth trying it with the case open (though sometimes this works adversely 'cos in a well designed case the air flow is reliant on the case being shut) or maybe moving the case to a cooler spot like next to an open window for a session........if that works, cooling fans or bits are good and cheap (20-30 quid for a good one).

 

[snoopy]

Bet you have fastwrites and/or side-band addressing enabled in the bios.

Hit Del/F1 on startup and disable.

 

[Bigtwin]

You forgot the obvious solution - get a Mac

 

[Steve]

You forgot the obvious solution - get a Mac

How many games are there for the Mac now? Three? Four?

 

[Bigtwin]

How many games are there for the Mac now? Three? Four?

Yup. Only 4. In the world.

 

[Fanum]

Yup. Only 4. In the world.

S'okay though..it's improving.....sometime in 2012 they're going to include mac support for Garmin products

 

[Bigtwin]

S'okay though..it's improving.....sometime in 2012 they're going to include mac support for Garmin products

Bet they don't bother - they've sussed out that mac users can read a map. :illbe