Time to trade it in for a :censored: pencil?
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Latest gripe to hit my PC - from time to time it has started restarting itself for no apparent reason. I'm guessing that Windows is crashing (or maybe it's some horrid virus thing?). I keep losing work and sooner or later it's going to find itself experiencing free flight. Anybody got any ideas what may be up?
I have the latest virus definitions and scan automatically every night, so I'd be surprised if it was a virus (although I'm sure that Norton isn't foolproof).
This has been going on for a couple of weeks now - it doesn't seem to be getting any worse, but it certainly isn't getting better!
This has been going on for a couple of weeks now - it doesn't seem to be getting any worse, but it certainly isn't getting better!
.Ahh bugger, thats usually pretty good.
Do you have a heat monitoring application?
If you havent download Motherboard Monitor 5 and take a look at your CPU and ambient case temperature...
If its not that then memory would be the next thing to look at, take it out a stick at a time and monitor.
After that its a case of isolating the component...
I take it you are up to date with all the updates etc?
Do you have a heat monitoring application?
If you havent download Motherboard Monitor 5 and take a look at your CPU and ambient case temperature...
If its not that then memory would be the next thing to look at, take it out a stick at a time and monitor.
After that its a case of isolating the component...
I take it you are up to date with all the updates etc?
Just a suggestion:
https://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/PCrange.html?BRA
https://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/PCrange.html?BRA
pdV6 said:
Just a suggestion:
https://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/PCrange.html?BRA
Bloody hell, that looks good. Aside from doing all my business on it (and using it to weld myself to PH on an hourly basis) I also use the PC a lot for my flight simulators and so need the best graphics I can lay my hands on. If I was going to just get a new PC, what should I go for?
To be honest I'm at the point with my business where I'm very soon going to need an office and some staff again. I guess what I really should be doing is buying a server, rather than maintaining a roomful of elderly and increasingly dodgy standalone PCs...
I'm a writer and I run a small PR company. Most of my work is Word files, but I store a lot of digital images on PC (I currentlyhave an 80GB hard drive) and get through lots of e-mail. The most intensive piece of business software I use is a media database (when I send out a story I create a bespoke media list which I then maintain so that I can refer back to the journalists I have sent the story to). I don't know how big this is but it isn't small!
I also run Microsoft Professional Flight Sim, which is a pretty big piece of software, and spend more time than I should on Geoff Crammond's GP simulator!
I also run Microsoft Professional Flight Sim, which is a pretty big piece of software, and spend more time than I should on Geoff Crammond's GP simulator!
No need to go mad then!
Something midrange on the processor stakes will be fine and lots of memory, good board architecture will also help (quick chipset etc)
Then spend the rest of the budget on storage and backup. A RAID IDE board with say two 160gb 7200rpm disks (about £100 each) means you are going to have an element of redundancy and hot backup.
Stick the existing 80gb in as an addition.
Then for the graphics card, I would say that again mid range will suffice, about £100 but if you want you can go mad, they are available between £60 and £600!
Add a 17" TFT in and the latest wireless keyboard and mouse and you are looking at around £800 all in I would say...
Something midrange on the processor stakes will be fine and lots of memory, good board architecture will also help (quick chipset etc)
Then spend the rest of the budget on storage and backup. A RAID IDE board with say two 160gb 7200rpm disks (about £100 each) means you are going to have an element of redundancy and hot backup.
Stick the existing 80gb in as an addition.
Then for the graphics card, I would say that again mid range will suffice, about £100 but if you want you can go mad, they are available between £60 and £600!
Add a 17" TFT in and the latest wireless keyboard and mouse and you are looking at around £800 all in I would say...
Plotloss said:
Shedload cheaper and easier to fix the existing one though
On the face of it that sounds like a good idea - it's an AMD 1600XP with a big HDD and lots of very nice components. THe problem is though where to get it fixed. I'll never go back to PC World again after various unhappy experiences and I've had computers repaired by small independents before now that have cost a fortune and not been entirely effective.
I'm starting to think that I need to look at computers as discardable items that aren't worth fiddling with when they go wrong. It's not as if they are particularly expensive any more.
Unless, of course, you know a reliable repairer who won't rip me off...
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