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Chris_Owl

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Hello, I am new to this forum, so Hi everyone :).

Anyway, I seem to be experiencing some problems with my computer of late, I have had my computer for around 5-6 years to start off with, and I believe this could be the factor to my problem but I would like a second opinion on the issue.

Sometimes when I boot my computer up I get an error message of a CMOS Checksum Bad message, I see in my BIOS that my date and time and such are not right, so I correct these, and the next day I get the same issue, I currently use AVG and I did a scan and no viruses were found. Although this is not my only issue, my Internet Explorer creates an error message and won't load up, although I use firefox more and every time I load this up now it produces a crash error message, although it was working fine just 2 days ago, although my first checksum bad error message was around 5 days ago. To continue with my issues, my CD/DVD player has issues with playing DVD style games and sometimes crashes when i attempt to play the games or doesn't load them up, although when I use CD's its fine. The dvd games can't be damaged as they work on other systems and also all of them have issues with my computer. My computer has also been running slow of late as well.

Is this the beginning of the end of my beloved machine?
 
What are your processor, RAM and hard drive specifications? If your system lasted five years you had a good machine.

It could be any number of problems but in my own opinion it isn't worth troubleshooting and fixing. Your machine is so old I would just get something new and better. Get a system with one of the following processors or better:

AMD Athlon II
AMD Phenom II

Intel Pentium E
Intel Core i3
Intel Core i5
 
My specs are as follows...

AMD Athlon 64 bit processor
3500+
2.20 GHz
1GB of RAM
300 GB hard drive which is around half full.
 
First thing I would try is using another computer to download the program Memtest86+. It is a program that tests your RAM to see if it is defective. You will have to download the program and burn it to a DVD to get it to work.

Download is here:

http://www.memtest.org/#downiso

Then you change the start up priority in your BIOS to make your DVD drive the first priority. The Memtest86+ disk will test your RAM to see if there are any problems with it. I would run it for at least 90 minutes.

After you test your RAM we can move on to testing something else if it passes.
 
Replace the cmos battery on the motherboard and we'll go from there, you would be surprised of the isses created by a dead battery. This is why you are getting a bad checksum error, the battery is dead most likely.
 
I also thought the CMOS battery was dead on his motherboard from what he was saying, but I didn't realise that could cause all the issues he was having with his system. I thought it was more likely a RAM, power supply, motherboard or software issue.
 
Well, i'm not saying all those issues are caused by the dead battery but lets start with what we know for sure first and we'll go from there.
 
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