Hi, I've recently upgraded my desktop, and I'm having problems with it running slow, and not responding/crashing alot.
Mainly, it takes ages to shut down, occasionally giving one of those error messages ("the memory at...reference.....could not be 'written'/'read'), but also often when I run an application it will fail to load at all, or load and crash (In this case ctrl+alt+del doesn't work, the mouse may or may not move, and I have to do a soft reset with the button on my case). When the computer reboots, the same application will usually load and run properly, and the problem happens with a load of different applications.
Heres what I tried:
-defragged my hard-drive multiple times, which is now defragged nicely.
-ran a complete virus (avast) and spyware/malware (super anti-spyware) tests, neither of which reported anything
-sorted through my processes and start up items, and got rid of anything I didn't need.
-checked all my drivers were working properly which they were.
-deleted all the crap off my computer (I'm still using an old hard drive, which I've had for a few years, so I deleted all the files and programs I didn't need any more)
-Ran memtest86+, which showed no memory errors after a complete pass (I should hope so, since its about 2 weeks old).
I don't know what else I can try. Heres my new hardware:
PSU: Coolermaster Real Power 620w Modular Power Supply
MOBO: Gigabyte GA-EP35-DS3 Intel P35 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR3 Motherboard
CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad Pro Q6600 "Energy Efficient SLACR 95W Edition" 2.40GHz (1066FSB)
RAM: Corsair 4GB DDR2 XMS2 Dominator PC2-8500C5 TwinX (2x2GB) with airflow fan.
GPU: EVGA GeForce 9800 GTX+ 1024MB GDDR3 TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (01G-P3-E880-AR) (overclocked slightly, but running stable)
OS: Win XP PRO SP3 (32-bit)
and my old hard drive: 250GB SATA Maxtor DiamondMax 21
(as well as periphials such as floppy/cd drives and pci parallel port card/network card, which have never caused me any problems.)
I think the only other possible explanation could be hardware incompatibility or maybe something wrong with the hard drive, but I don't know how I can test it. Can someone let me know if my hardware is stable, or what I can do to sort out this problem?
Also, I recently bough Assassins creed, and with moderate graphics settings I'm getting a really low frame rate like 10-12FPS, but I would have thought my hardware could almost max that game out. I'm not sure if this a problem with xp only having dx9 and not dx10, or if it is part of the same problem causing the crashing etc.
P.S. I might be getting this new HDD: Western Digital Caviar Green 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache, and hopefully installing vista on it. Should I get 32-bit or 64-bit, and which version?
Thanks alot
Mainly, it takes ages to shut down, occasionally giving one of those error messages ("the memory at...reference.....could not be 'written'/'read'), but also often when I run an application it will fail to load at all, or load and crash (In this case ctrl+alt+del doesn't work, the mouse may or may not move, and I have to do a soft reset with the button on my case). When the computer reboots, the same application will usually load and run properly, and the problem happens with a load of different applications.
Heres what I tried:
-defragged my hard-drive multiple times, which is now defragged nicely.
-ran a complete virus (avast) and spyware/malware (super anti-spyware) tests, neither of which reported anything
-sorted through my processes and start up items, and got rid of anything I didn't need.
-checked all my drivers were working properly which they were.
-deleted all the crap off my computer (I'm still using an old hard drive, which I've had for a few years, so I deleted all the files and programs I didn't need any more)
-Ran memtest86+, which showed no memory errors after a complete pass (I should hope so, since its about 2 weeks old).
I don't know what else I can try. Heres my new hardware:
PSU: Coolermaster Real Power 620w Modular Power Supply
MOBO: Gigabyte GA-EP35-DS3 Intel P35 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR3 Motherboard
CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad Pro Q6600 "Energy Efficient SLACR 95W Edition" 2.40GHz (1066FSB)
RAM: Corsair 4GB DDR2 XMS2 Dominator PC2-8500C5 TwinX (2x2GB) with airflow fan.
GPU: EVGA GeForce 9800 GTX+ 1024MB GDDR3 TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (01G-P3-E880-AR) (overclocked slightly, but running stable)
OS: Win XP PRO SP3 (32-bit)
and my old hard drive: 250GB SATA Maxtor DiamondMax 21
(as well as periphials such as floppy/cd drives and pci parallel port card/network card, which have never caused me any problems.)
I think the only other possible explanation could be hardware incompatibility or maybe something wrong with the hard drive, but I don't know how I can test it. Can someone let me know if my hardware is stable, or what I can do to sort out this problem?
Also, I recently bough Assassins creed, and with moderate graphics settings I'm getting a really low frame rate like 10-12FPS, but I would have thought my hardware could almost max that game out. I'm not sure if this a problem with xp only having dx9 and not dx10, or if it is part of the same problem causing the crashing etc.
P.S. I might be getting this new HDD: Western Digital Caviar Green 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache, and hopefully installing vista on it. Should I get 32-bit or 64-bit, and which version?
Thanks alot