Re: Computer not working!

anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com
Date: 05/01/04 

Date: Sat, 1 May 2004 11:06:53 -0700

Steve,

Thanks very much for your reply. Excellent.
I suspected that the "clicking" was possibly a HDD problem
and suggested to my brother in law that he back his stuff
up if he got it going again (because he hasn't in the
past) he generally uses just for internet and games sonot
really anything to worry about there.

I agree that 128mb of ram is slim, for any computer these
days, so will update that for him next time I'm down there.

So its not the newly installed graphics card, just a 4
year old failing HDD and to little ram.

Steve, many thanks again.

Kevin
>-----Original Message-----
>a "funny clicking noise" , a.k.a. "The Click Of Doom"
and "The Click Of
>Death" usually indicates a soon-to-be dead hard drive.
As the read-head
>strikes a platter on the hard drive, it "clicks', in the
process destroying
>a portion of the platter (and any data residing there).
If it happened to
>strike a portion of the platter where data about the TV
card was stored, you
>most certainly will receive an error message.
>
>Of course your brother-in-law religiously backs up his
data every day, so he
>needn't worry about losing it when the drive inevitably
dies.
>
>by-the-by, 128MB of RAM is rather slim for Windows XP --
just barely enough
>to load the Operating System. Any programs will mostly
be moving to and
>from the Page File on the hard drive (constantly working
the drive and
>read/write head). Most knowledgeable users of XP
recommend a minimum of
>256. If you use any graphics programs, multi-task, or
play modern games, a
>reasonable minimum is 512 MB.
>
>[consider: At the moment I have MS Word loaded = 14.5
MB; Excel = 17.2 MB,
>Outlook = 19.5 MB ... three programs = 51 MB of memory]
>
>steve
>
>
>"Kevin" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message
>news:6e0901c42f11$c57c1750$a101280a@phx.gbl...
>> A couple of weeks ago I installed a Asus V9560 GeForce
>> FX5600XT 128MB DDR AGP, Tv-Out/DVI-I graphics card in my
>> brother in laws PC.
>> WinXp home, P4 2.4, 128 ram.
>>
>> I was staying down there for a week and installed and
>> tested it for most of the week, no problems.
>> He phoned my tonight and said that when he started his
PC
>> he got an error message "You have installed new hardware
>> PC won't work" kind of thing. That was after it ran scan
>> disc.
>> He also said that there was a funny clicking noise
coming
>> from the PC, then it freezes or shuts down.
>>
>> Does anyone have any ideas about this please?
>>
>> Kevin
>
>
>.
>

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