Crashing and Rebooting


Thank's for the info it helped a bit, she's still not running as well as
she should but it's better, so i'm thinking of replacing the motherboard
(as the one I have was a make do) and replacing the psu from a 300w to a
600w. Thanks again :)

EAG1945 Wrote:
> Hi maiden fan,
>
> I had the same problems you are having and this is what fixed it for
> me:
>
> 1. Move your sound card to the farthest slot, away from the graphics
> card.
>
> 2. Enter the BIOS and make sure that your onboard sound is set to
> "disabled", not "auto".
>
> I believe the above helped the most. In addition, I did the following:
>
> 3. Blow out any dust with compressed air, clean all fans heat sinks.
>
> 4. Remove all cards and memory chips, clean the contacts with a pencil
> eraser, clean contacts with alcohol to remove eraser dust.
>
> 5. Blow out all slots, and replace cards and memory.
>
> I can not guarantee this will help you, but I hope it does.
>
> EAG1945
>
> "maiden fan" maiden.fan.1ut3pp@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote in message
> news:maiden.fan.1ut3pp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> I am new to this forum so I apologize if this is posted in the wrong
> place.
> My problem is that I have a 12 month old comp with I feel quite a
> good
> spec, I replaced my old Radeon 7000 graphics card with a Radeon 9550
> for better gaming and also as I do alot of desighning with photoshop
> and such, since I replaced the card the computer will either crash or
> reboot while I am playing games, any games but I play mostly sims2
> and
> star trek, I have the latest driver's and also checked that the AGP
> is
> switched on in the bios all is correct. The other thing that I have
> found is that when I run a disc the minuite the disc starts to run
> there is a 90% chance that the computer locks up- is this connected.
> If
> anyone knows what the problem could be could they please tell me as I
> am
> starting to feel like throwing the thing out of the nearest
> window.Below
> is a list of my system speck. It has been suggested to update and
> flash
> the bios but i'm not confident enough to do that.The other thing I
> have
> found is that in my hardware manager it is listed that I am useing my
> secondary ide channel with microsoft driver and not my sis ide that I
> updated should I change this, Please forgive my ignorance i'm still
> learning. Thank you.
>
> ECS 661FX-M MOTHERBOARD
> INTELL PENTIUM4 3GHZ PROCCESOR
> 1 GIG DDR400 RAM
> RADEON 9550AGP GRAPHICS CARD
> CRYSTEL SOUND FUSION SOUND CARD
> LITE-ON LTN- 529S CD ROM
> PHILIPS CDRW 5232P1
> WINDOWS XP + SEVICE PACKS 1 AND 2
>
>
> --
> maiden fan-


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