Jackelope

Anyone in the Northeast Georgia area feel like fixing a computer for me? I've given up on it! Can barely get windows to load...

its a nice, custom built system... (darn case was ~ $200) haha.

Athlon 1900+
512mb ram
dfi motherboard (AD77 Infinity, i think) /vid card (Xabre 64mb) <-- i think these 2 are fight'n

anyway... anyone feel like play'n around w/ a system to get it work'n? I've had it for 2 years now, no luck... geez

kargoboy

Other than the decent amount of ram, the system is fairly outmoded...unless you just want to use it for 'net stuff. Can you describe in a little more detail what exactly happens?
Which operating system?

Jackelope

oh yah, I know its outta date, but it should play the games i wanna play easy enuf. command&conquer:the first decade... ds2, stuff like that.

old school! Win98SE - not much details, just "locks" up. after 3-4 times of restarting, win98 gets loaded.
then, just random lockups.

Jackelope

friend @ my last job tried load'n XP, ran into the same problems.

meGrimlock

try another brand of ram. if you have a friend who has some compatible ram lying around, swap it out.

run DFT, available at www.hgst.com for free. its a bootable cdrom which can test you hdd for failures. anything other than a 0x0 result, the hdd should be replaced.

for the heck of it: also try a new CMOS battery. take a look at the button battery on the motherboard. match it up with a button battery at your favorite electronics store (usually found in the digital imaging section).

Jackelope

hmm. i'll try those when i get a chance