PC on it's way out....

[damien©]

It appears my trusty PC is on it's way out.... Just thought I'd share because if it does "I'm F***ed", I'll have no PC to replace as my other PC's Hard Drive has failed!

Random Crashing, Random Restarting, Errors, Programs not Loading, Taken to long to load... the list goes on.... and it's only getting worse!

Oh well...

[bingo83]

Get a few £££'s together and build a new one.

I have built several in the past few years and will be going to upgrade this one (athlon 64 3200) for a Athon 64 4000 X2 (dual core) in the next few months.

You can also save yourself a huge wad of £££ by self building.

[phatmuther]

yeah el mucho cheaper building it yourself (Y)

too bad its dying though :(

[damien©]

It's the £££'s that are the problem! Mainly the lack of any!

Cheers for the advice thou!

[Blaze Lord]

Can you take this hdd and put it in your other box?

[phatmuther]

quickly sell it to some poor sucker, and then use the cash to make another :D (Y)

[backin-strachan]

Thants not nice PHATSO

Hope you get it soon(Y)

[Benj]

Have you tried fixing it? You can try defragging the hard-drive, format and re-install Windows (this works wonders when things are going slow). Run anti-virus and spyware software etc.

Take the side off and give a good clean with a can of compressed air (£8 at PC World), this is something that everyone should do once every couple of months anyway, fans getting blocked and causing vital components, such as the cpu, to overheat can cause the computer to become very unstable.

Check all the connections inside as well, although if you do go touching anything in there it's best to make sure you've grounded yourself first.

[damien©]

quickly sell it to some poor sucker, and then use the cash to make another :D (Y)

Nar I couldn't do that to anyone, that's slack! Lol

Maybe when my Family gets back maybe one of them may hand me there credit card! Although I don't really see that happening....

[damien©]

Have you tried fixing it? You can try defragging the hard-drive, format and re-install Windows (this works wonders when things are going slow). Run anti-virus and spyware software etc.



Cheers for the advice! I might do that tommorrow once I found a place where I can stick 200Gb of data while I format the hard drive or I might just delete it all!

[Benj]

Cheers for the advice! I might do that tommorrow once I found a place where I can stick 200Gb of data while I format the hard drive or I might just delete it all!
If you've got a DVD burner and the money for 30 odd blank DVDs you're sorted ;)

[damien©]

If you've got a DVD burner and the money for 30 odd blank DVDs you're sorted ;)

Do you know what.... funnily enough I don't!

Most of it's probably crappy videos and pictures except for my music collection!

[phatmuther]

also as a tip, use different hDDs, one for data - big 200gb one and one maller one - 40gb/20 for the windows installation, then if it goes wrong the you can re-install it, without having to erase all your data (Y)

[Benj]

also as a tip, use different hDDs, one for data - big 200gb one and one maller one - 40gb/20 for the windows installation, then if it goes wrong the you can re-install it, without having to erase all your data (Y)
That's a good tip. You may want to make that 40GB a 10k RPM drive. Install Windows and the 4 or 5 games you play the most. With a drive that fast Windows boots in the blink of an eye.

[phatmuther]

aye true (Y)
but a 10k rpm drive cost a little bit more than a normal one :D

i wish i had one of those 105gb raptors :(

[Raisedbyflames]

by a new hard drive just for windows keep your old one and use it for files, thatway ifyou got to reinstall your files are safe

[phatmuther]

by a new hard drive just for windows keep your old one and use it for files, thatway ifyou got to reinstall your files are safe
pfft, like, totally copy my post man. write your own post, kid.

:D

[Raisedbyflames]

ill be buildinga system just for crysis next year

[phatmuther]

dual SLI? or...... Quad SLI???? :D

[Raisedbyflames]

quad if i gotthe cash.

my specs of thissysterm imonright now areoki suposebut they wont cut it for directx10 games.

1gbram, 6800ultraO/c, 3.2p4 32bit,

[phatmuther]

nah doubtful, your gonna need 2gb ram and a dual core processor prob (Y)

[Raisedbyflames]

yeah its a Dualthread processor i got

[phatmuther]

yeah but its only a 32 bit processor, i reckon youll be better off with 64 (Y)

[Raisedbyflames]

im going to do this oneup with silntfans it can be the oneileave on all the time ill build an evil monster rig for crysis.

hopfully this one i got here, that i build specificly for hl2, willrun medievil totalwar

[rydo-uk]

Lol ive got 2 spair pcs under my bed i dont use :p

[phatmuther]

Lol ive got 2 spair pcs under my bed i dont use :p
ill have em ;)

[rydo-uk]

Pft yeah yeah u wish
oh and ive also got anotherone in my basement :D

[Raisedbyflames]

if udontuseitwhy kepp them

[xXDuBzXx]

simple soulution.


TURN THE H4X on.


lol, but realisticlly, just look for abeat up one, maybe fix it up a bit, sell it for more then u got it for, or more then its worth;)