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i have a 5 year old pc, which for some reason continuously crashes and when it doesnt crash, it is really, really slow. what can i do?
here are its stats:
Intel Celeron 433MHz
184MB ram
68% system resources free
Available space on drive C: 6087MB of 8040MB (FAT32)
if you need any more information, you'll have to tell me where to get it, cos i dont have a clue!
here are its stats:
Intel Celeron 433MHz
184MB ram
68% system resources free
Available space on drive C: 6087MB of 8040MB (FAT32)
if you need any more information, you'll have to tell me where to get it, cos i dont have a clue!
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maybe im thinking of something else, but isnt formatting a pc, wiping, the wholle hard drive, windows and all?
Then your dad's friend in talking out of his rear passage.
Whooo! wrote:
> Your best off formating it and reinstalling everything, which is I
> presume, what dispute meant.
my dads friend said that the computer never works properly after that.
> Your best off formating it and reinstalling everything, which is I
> presume, what dispute meant.
my dads friend said that the computer never works properly after that.
Your best off formating it and reinstalling everything, which is I presume, what dispute meant.
*disPute* wrote:
"What version of Windows are you running?"
Windows 98
"But you should really back up everything you want and wipe the hard-drive then start again if you can."
cant, nothing to put it on, dont have a zip drive thingy or a cd writer
"You've got enough RAM, hard-drive space and CPU power that everything should work fine. How long since the PC was last wiped clean, if ever?"
by that do you mean start/programs/accesories/system tools/disk cleanup? cos i do that a lot
"The computer just getting random stuff stuck on it is the most common
reason for a computer to act slow but there are more serious reasons,
hardware problems but they are pretty unlikely."
hardware problems? how do i check for them? and this random stuff that gets stuck, is there any way to delete it? and how do i check if it is stuck?
"What version of Windows are you running?"
Windows 98
"But you should really back up everything you want and wipe the hard-drive then start again if you can."
cant, nothing to put it on, dont have a zip drive thingy or a cd writer
"You've got enough RAM, hard-drive space and CPU power that everything should work fine. How long since the PC was last wiped clean, if ever?"
by that do you mean start/programs/accesories/system tools/disk cleanup? cos i do that a lot
"The computer just getting random stuff stuck on it is the most common
reason for a computer to act slow but there are more serious reasons,
hardware problems but they are pretty unlikely."
hardware problems? how do i check for them? and this random stuff that gets stuck, is there any way to delete it? and how do i check if it is stuck?
We smelt a worrying amount of it at i12..
mmmm, you've gotta love that smell..
Yeah smell the horrible stench of burning silicon and your PC crashes extremely shortly afterwards.
AMD MAN has a point. My computer's Power Supply fan just went dead so i'm having to replace the whole power supply and the whole computer would overheat majorly and crash after a few hours (Explorer crashed). Any specific error message? but I have to stick with my original guess. I haven't ever seen what happen's when the CPU fan breaks and the CPU overheats though.
Open it up and make sure the fan on the cpu's heatsink is still running as they a prone to stop working after a while.
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