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Cyonic
12-20-2003, 11:08 PM
Hi
After sending my pc of for repair they corrected that my motherboard was faulty and replaced it along with the memory.
Now when I play games (I've got a radeon 8500, old I know but it gets me by) all the games I used to play fine freeze or lag and the VPU keeps crashing.

I've tried diffrent drivers and stuff does anyone else have any suggestions?

P.S: It's not OC either.

clocker
12-20-2003, 11:35 PM
What board do you have?
Have you visited BIOS and determined that your video is set to use a AGP card instead of PCI?
Does Device Manager show any conflicts/problems?

Kunal
12-20-2003, 11:37 PM
Is the new memory compatible with the motherboard? (might sound stupid but happened to my mate a while ago)

john_malkie2010
12-20-2003, 11:47 PM
i would say its a good chance its the memory...it could be faulty, it could be incompatible, could be it just needs burned in or could even be its being pushed too hard

Virtualbody1234
12-20-2003, 11:56 PM
Check the temperatures.

I have seen an improperly installed CPU cooler have similar results.

I'm not saying that for sure it's the CPU cooler but a good place to start is to see the temps.

AcID ZeR0
12-21-2003, 12:59 AM
Hi the temps are 42 c
The motherboard/memory was installed by trained professionalls (TIME computers) and it's been inspected before getting sent back so I doubt it's that.

But i'll ring them up monday and see what they say though.

Virtualbody1234
12-21-2003, 01:42 AM
So, who is having the trouble here? AcID ZeR0 or Cyonic

racer II
12-21-2003, 01:45 AM
Did you do a full format and reinstall your o/s?

adamp2p
12-21-2003, 01:55 AM
Originally posted by Virtualbody1234@21 December 2003 - 02:42
So, who is having the trouble here? AcID ZeR0 or Cyonic
It appears they are the same person. Don't you hate that?

It makes you think there are people who actually are several names...now I don't trust anyone anymore and I need to see my therapist... :lol:

raiserblade2003
12-21-2003, 02:05 AM
could be the card is overheating....same thing happen to my card. put in a pci slot fans and everything was fine

AcID ZeR0
12-21-2003, 02:27 AM
AcID ZeR0/Cyonic are me sorry one pc is still logged into my old name sorry for the confusion.

Well I've just formated my drive and installed win xp pro but still getting same problems.

ck-uk
12-21-2003, 06:18 AM
Mate if your just had a new mobo,ram..you could check your memory setting in bios,like the timiing,etc.They may need a bit of tuning...could be why its laging,crashing on games..etc

Smurfette
12-21-2003, 09:53 AM
Originally posted by AcID ZeR0@21 December 2003 - 00:59
The motherboard/memory was installed by trained professionalls (TIME computers) and it's been inspected before getting sent back so I doubt it's that.
Time Computers are employing trained professionals, now? How things change.

Who told you a trained professional had worked on your computer?
Why would a trained professional need to have his work double-checked?
Trained to what level and who did the training? ;)
Heh, dogs can be trained...

lynx
12-21-2003, 11:01 AM
Originally posted by AcID ZeR0@20 December 2003 - 23:59
it's been inspected before getting sent back
Means somebody looked at it and said "Yep, I think that's a computer".

adamp2p
12-21-2003, 11:14 AM
Originally posted by lynx+21 December 2003 - 12:01--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (lynx @ 21 December 2003 - 12:01)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-AcID ZeR0@20 December 2003 - 23:59
it&#39;s been inspected before getting sent back
Means somebody looked at it and said "Yep, I think that&#39;s a computer". [/b][/quote]
dont you love it?

:lol:

Kunal
12-21-2003, 01:14 PM
Originally posted by lynx+21 December 2003 - 12:01--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (lynx @ 21 December 2003 - 12:01)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-AcID ZeR0@20 December 2003 - 23:59
it&#39;s been inspected before getting sent back
Means somebody looked at it and said "Yep, I think that&#39;s a computer". [/b][/quote]
Yeh, thats probaly what they do at TIME&#33; Not as bad as tiny though who glue in computer parts :lol: