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12-18-10, 11:09 AM #1Your diagnosis?
So, I haven't been around for a while, and the reason is simple: my comptuer, albeit still working, is dying!
I was using XP untill someday it just all froze when I closed CSS. It went downhill from there... Hard reboot upon hard reboot, failed reinstallation upon failed reinstallation, it never went back to the glory of its old years! I even bought windows 7 to try and see if it was OS related. Every time I boot it, it takes a bajillion hours and its all laggy, even though it's supposed to handle win7 just fine (2.3Ghz double core, 4go RAM, 9600 GT card).
My BIOS is kind of laggy (I can see all the rectangle load one after another when I open the setup..) but the OS is just horrible. I was thinking maybe its the Hard drive, maybe its the motherboard. What do you guys think?
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12-18-10, 12:05 PM #2Re: Your diagnosis?
Try disconnecting the hard drive and getting into the BIOS. If it is still laggy, then count out the BIOS. Next, I would try re-seating your CPU and applying some new thermal compound. Without having much information, it sounds like your CPU is failing. I have seen PCs fail to get into BIOS and post when the CPU starts to die.
It could also be a memory issue... or a motherboard issue. If you don't have parts available to swap and test, it is gonna be hard to find the root cause. Try pulling one stick of RAM, swap them to see if only 1 stick makes things better.
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