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Xeniczone
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Computer issue
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11 March 2006, 17:55 »
I had some friends come over and we set up a bunch of computers and started playing halo pc through the lan.
After playing for 30mins one of my friends said his game was pauseds so I when up to that part of the house where the computer was and looked at it and started doing some hardware checks. I felt the heatsink and it was cool and looked for anything missed place.
This had happened before but I got a new heatsink for it and it just started doing it again.
Can anyone help? I need this computer for halo toruments.
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Jack2000
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Re: Computer issue
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11 March 2006, 17:58 »
have you checked the software ?
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Re: Computer issue
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11 March 2006, 17:59 »
Specs?
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Re: Computer issue
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11 March 2006, 18:01 »
check some software prog or the BIOS for temps. A cool heatsink during gaming can mean it's not making correct contact.
what do you mean by paused? it froze?
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Xeniczone
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Re: Computer issue
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11 March 2006, 18:28 »
Specs:
Intel Pentium 3 933mhz
256mb ram
dvd-rom drive
20gb hard drive
1.2gb hard drive
Yes it freezes.
I know it has to be a hardware issue because I have tried multible OSes on it.
Here is a list of all the os I have used on it with the same freezeing result.
OSes:
SuSe Linux 10.0
Mandrake Linux 10
Windows 98
Windows XP
Windows Vista (beta 1)
All of them freeze for some reason so I think it is a hardware issues.
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Re: Computer issue
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11 March 2006, 18:32 »
download memtest86 and run the tests.
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Xeniczone
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Re: Computer issue
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11 March 2006, 21:24 »
I couldn't get that program to work but I removed a memory stick that came with the comptuer that I thought could be bad and im testing the computer now with halo it is doing ok no freezing yet.
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Re: Computer issue
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11 March 2006, 21:42 »
yeah, itcould be a bad memory stick, happend to me. either that or it's overheating. I doubt it would be the motherboard dying.
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Pathos
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Re: Computer issue
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12 March 2006, 00:33 »
could be motherboard/bios too...
could a bad processor cause that?
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Xeniczone
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Re: Computer issue
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12 March 2006, 00:34 »
*solved*
Thanks everyone it was a bad memory stick. Kinda sad really I bought at least 85 dollars worth of cooling stuff and a new case when all I had to do was remove one of the memory sticks
But I know it is working now it used to only run for at least 30 mins now I've been running it for 4 hours so I think it is working again
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