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Micco333

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Greetings. I know this type of question should be somewere else - but this forum is simply the first you looking at when You enter "Computer Forum". Sorry for that. Now - my problem. So... About a week ago i changed my computer components. Now i have (it's only a half of an upgrade) Pentium 4 Prescott 3ghz/ Graphic card: nVidia 5500/Ram: 256 DDR II/Sound: Sound Blaster Audigy/Motherboard: ASRock DualVSTA 775. In my older thing - there were Pentium III 500mhz/RAM: 386 sdram/Some old motherboard. And the rest was as it is now. My problem's like that:

Before an upgrade - my comupter was working very stabile. Games were always running - faster, slower, but were running, and there was NEVER a moment of longer computer "thinking".

Now - Games are running very fast - it's true. Everythings fine... BUT - sometimes (ex. When i'm playing Ultimate Spiderman) computer just start thinking... And usually i have to reset it (computer's thinking for long time).

My question is - why's that happening? Is this RAM's fault (when i'll have more - it'll stop?). Or maybe it's problem of a different nature.

I'm working on Windows XP PRO Edition with Service Pack 1.

Sorry for any bugs in the text - i'm from Poland. Thanks for any answers - and God Bless You :)
 
You came to the right place :).

After you upgraded, did you reinstall windows? When you upgrade your motherboard, you usually should reinstall windows, or there are issues like you mentioned.
 
First of all - thanks for quick reply.
Yes - i've reinstalled windows. But (i don't know is it have any meaning) - i've formated only my Windows partition "C:" - and i left my "D:" and "E:" partitions untouched. And - i've formated my "C:" - in NTFS. Any hints? :)
 
Heh... After longer period - problem came back... I've installed motherboard drivers - but it's not it... Maybe it's fault of power suply adaptor? Mine has 300W?
 
Micco333 said:
Heh... After longer period - problem came back... I've installed motherboard drivers - but it's not it... Maybe it's fault of power suply adaptor? Mine has 300W?
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I would go with getting more ram... I would grab 1-2 gb.. then you will have nor porblems..
 
What Power supply do you have? 300 watts doesn't tell us too much. Mainly, I want to know the brand and the amount of amps on the +12V rail. It usually shows it on the sticker on the side of the power supply.
 
Yea the spec on your power supply. Plus 256 mbs of ram is not much, XP will eat up much of that and then tryin to play a game(SLOW)
 
To me it is obvious that you are running out of memory available when gaming, and it starts using virtual memory. Go for a couple of gigs, minimum 1 gig, that aughta help you out.
 
:)

Thanks for all the responses - but before i get more parts (like RAM and new PSA) - i've overcome the problem :)

I've simply give my games a permanent "belownormal" priority - the problem was i think - making my P4 working at 100% power (i saw it in the windows manager - CTRL-ALT-DELETE). Now - when they're working at 50 - 75% power - everythings fine :)
 
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