Hey
This is the problem:
It freezes all the time. No rhyme or reason, sometimes as quickly as
during start up sometimes it will work for two hours and then freeze.
Sometimes when burning CD, sometimes when surfing internet, sometimes
when looking at slideshow of pictures. It won't start in safe mode
either for some reason. I guess when he was building it he had a
problem with it freezing when he was installing Windows onto it...so
this problem has been happening on and off ever since the beginning.
(I got it in November but just hooked up to the internet last Friday)
It's just gotten worse as time progresses. We thought it might be the
video card but swapped that out and it still happened. Also thought
it might be overheating but that doesnt hold since sometimes it will
happen first thing of the day and sometimes after being on for
awhile...
This is what is in it:
Currently you have:
Soyo Dragon motherboard socket 478
Intel Celeron CPU with 533 FSB
Ultra 512 MB PC 3200 DDR memory
MSI MX-4000 memory card
Possible problems
1) memory bus speed not in sync with FSB
2) video card causing problems
3) motherboard sucks
We tried
My PNY video card, worked for a while then froze up
Memory bus speed is set to auto in the BIOS, so should automatically
clock back the right speed
Can't update bios because you don't have a floppy drive, although that
could be fixed
Can't start in safe mode for some reason
This is the problem:
It freezes all the time. No rhyme or reason, sometimes as quickly as
during start up sometimes it will work for two hours and then freeze.
Sometimes when burning CD, sometimes when surfing internet, sometimes
when looking at slideshow of pictures. It won't start in safe mode
either for some reason. I guess when he was building it he had a
problem with it freezing when he was installing Windows onto it...so
this problem has been happening on and off ever since the beginning.
(I got it in November but just hooked up to the internet last Friday)
It's just gotten worse as time progresses. We thought it might be the
video card but swapped that out and it still happened. Also thought
it might be overheating but that doesnt hold since sometimes it will
happen first thing of the day and sometimes after being on for
awhile...
This is what is in it:
Currently you have:
Soyo Dragon motherboard socket 478
Intel Celeron CPU with 533 FSB
Ultra 512 MB PC 3200 DDR memory
MSI MX-4000 memory card
Possible problems
1) memory bus speed not in sync with FSB
2) video card causing problems
3) motherboard sucks
We tried
My PNY video card, worked for a while then froze up
Memory bus speed is set to auto in the BIOS, so should automatically
clock back the right speed
Can't update bios because you don't have a floppy drive, although that
could be fixed
Can't start in safe mode for some reason
