What to do???

frankcastle13 · 12-06-2006, 11:28 PM

Allright, a couple months ago I bought and built a new computer. It started out working good and then started freezing. Now it freezes almost every time I go on. It shouldnt be doing this because I have a bunch of new good parts. It could be a number of things but I'm not completely sure. One person I talk to said overheating but my processor has never gotten over 30 degrees celsius so I doubt thats it. And sometimes the screen just shuts off and says no signal. But my music usually keeps playing without change. Today a window came up that said I needed to update my BIOS and I went to the site and all that good shit but then I called my friend and he said I needed a floppy drive in order to update it. I'm very confused and would appreciate any help. I have added all the components below.

Mainboard : Gigabyte GA-M55SLI-S4
Chipset : nVidia nForce4
Processor : AMD Opteron @ 2200 MHz
Physical Memory : 2048 MB (2 x 1024 DDR2-SDRAM )
Video Card : Nvidia Corp GeForce 7900 GT
Hard Disk : WDC (250 GB)
Operating System : Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition 5.01.2600 Service Pack 2
Monitor Type : ViewSonic VA902 SERIES - 19 inchs

Oh BTW, I have zonealarm antivirus installed so I doubt its a virus.

StrangleHold · 12-06-2006, 11:53 PM

Suppost to have bios F6 to run a Opteron, use Gigabytes @Bios or Q-Flash. Have you checked your GPU temps!

12-06-2006, 11:28 PM	#1 (permalink)
frankcastle13 New Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 11	What to do??? Allright, a couple months ago I bought and built a new computer. It started out working good and then started freezing. Now it freezes almost every time I go on. It shouldnt be doing this because I have a bunch of new good parts. It could be a number of things but I'm not completely sure. One person I talk to said overheating but my processor has never gotten over 30 degrees celsius so I doubt thats it. And sometimes the screen just shuts off and says no signal. But my music usually keeps playing without change. Today a window came up that said I needed to update my BIOS and I went to the site and all that good shit but then I called my friend and he said I needed a floppy drive in order to update it. I'm very confused and would appreciate any help. I have added all the components below. Mainboard : Gigabyte GA-M55SLI-S4 Chipset : nVidia nForce4 Processor : AMD Opteron @ 2200 MHz Physical Memory : 2048 MB (2 x 1024 DDR2-SDRAM ) Video Card : Nvidia Corp GeForce 7900 GT Hard Disk : WDC (250 GB) Operating System : Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition 5.01.2600 Service Pack 2 Monitor Type : ViewSonic VA902 SERIES - 19 inchs Oh BTW, I have zonealarm antivirus installed so I doubt its a virus. Last edited by frankcastle13; 12-06-2006 at 11:32 PM.

12-06-2006, 11:53 PM	#2 (permalink)
StrangleHold Diamond Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: In a realm of unknown Wonders Posts: 7,466	Suppost to have bios F6 to run a Opteron, use Gigabytes @Bios or Q-Flash. Have you checked your GPU temps! __________________ NZXT Apollo Athlon 64 X2 5600-3.3ghz. Gigabyte GA MA770 DS3 G Skill DDR2 1066-944mhz. 4gbs. PNY 8800GT/VD964 Cooler W/D Sata 3.0 500gb RE2 Humans are curious creatures and by nature insane. Lock us all in a room together and within hours we're dividing into groups, creating Gods and plotting on how to kill one another. Last edited by StrangleHold; 12-06-2006 at 11:57 PM.

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