Author: Kirill Kryukov
Date: 04:54:21 03/05/06
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On March 05, 2006 at 07:26:10, mike schoonover wrote: >if it is new pack it all up and bring it back to get a refund. I second this. Bring the thing back to seller and buy from a more responsible person or company. If you have to live with it I would check these things first: 1. Remove overclocking if there is any. Actually you may even try to clock down the CPU and memory timings, to see if it helps. 2. Run memory test (the one that boots from floppy)- leave it running for a few hours befure you think there are no errors. 3. Overheating. Make sure the CPU fan works, sometimes machine can work without it, just it will be slow or freeze often. Make sure there are (is) case fans, that you feel the wind when you put your finger near HDD, etc. 4. Check the power supply. Crappy PSU will make any system unstable, and you will not know what to blame. Borrow a good PSU, replace, try to work with the machine, then you will know. 5. Remove any unnecessary cards, like network card, sound, interface controllers, etc.. Leave the graphics card in though.. Try to use the machine and see if it got any better. 6. Update the motherboard BIOS and all drivers to the latest version. If nothing worked, try reinstalling the OS and software. Do this with your machine physically disconnected from the internet. Don't install anything you don't absolutely need. Install software firewall first of all things. And never run MS Internet Explorer and Outlook. Try to use it for a while.. There are also companies fixing computers, they will help, if you don't have friends who can fix it. Best, Kirill
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