Refresh or Warning????

manwithnoname · Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2006 9:29 pm Post subject: Refresh or Warning????

lately it seems that my computer freezes for a few moments then the screen goes blank then comes back on is this just a refresh method or is it a warning. (this seems to have just started happening in the last few days and i was just wondering) Btw for those of you who read my post earlier this is also a reason for me wanting to change.

If there is anyway to fix this can you please tell me.

It gets annoying after awhile Especially when i am searching through large amounts of words

Oh and one more thing it seems to be fine its only when i am scrolling through a search list. (say i typed something in google as i am scrolling down it might freeze then go blank for a few seconds that kindof thing)

Please do help me if possible.
Hope its Fixable.
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thugangel · Ronin Samurai Joined: Aug 27, 2005 Posts: 713

Have you tried putitng in a different hard drive that has an operating system on it just to see if the problem is coming from the hardware and not the software?

Have you defragged your hard drive? I noticed that the speed of the hard drive on the Compaq is 5400 RPM. Not only that, your system has 128MB of RAM. Unless you've upgraded those, which I have no idea if you have.

Have you tried to get rid of unnecessary softwares running in the background? Have you tried to get rid of adwares and viruses? These little things affect a lot especially on a computer with little resource and slow hard drive.

Is the video card properly placed in? Also, which driver is the video card using? The integrated one or one that you bought? There may have a conflict between the two or there is something wrong with the AGP slotted video card.

Are there any extra stuff connected in like other hard drives? What is this video card that you bought or how much power does it consume? Maybe your computer isn't getting enough power.

What kind of monitor do you have? Is it an LCD or a VGA? If it's an LCD, is it connected through DVI cable?

Have you tried moving your computer to a different room and use it there? Do you get the same problem?

manwithnoname · Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 5:39 am Post subject:

thugangel · Ronin Samurai Joined: Aug 27, 2005 Posts: 713

And what is the spec on this new power supply that you bought? Your XFX 6200 will consume 117 watts during idle and 200W during full load. Adding in another hard drive would add more load on the power consumption.

Woops, I messed up on my question. I wanted to ask whether if your monitor was LCD or CRT. Because I have a friend who connected his LCD monitor through VGA connection and the monitor would always go down on him. He also had to move to a different (while being connected through VGA) just to delay more of the monitor shutdowns. I guess it would differ on the manufacturing of the LCD monitor.

And the video card is fitted in well into the AGP slot, right? Same goes for the RAM sticks.

manwithnoname · Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 1:48 pm Post subject:

poiurewqfdsa · Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 3:37 pm Post subject:

this problem happens on my laptop as well and i just bought the damn thing...and i don't run a lot of softwares on it, i am practically OCD with viruses and adwares. what's going on?

manwithnoname · Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 7:27 pm Post subject:

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manwithnoname · Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2006 8:42 pm Post subject:

darn lol well i guess i will dissconnect the HDD and go without
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manwithnoname · Posted: Sat Sep 16, 2006 9:35 pm Post subject:

Just as an added question how would it affect my computer to let it go with this problem
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thugangel · Ronin Samurai Joined: Aug 27, 2005 Posts: 713

Shorten life span of the computer. Just like how it is bad from getting a bad power supply, most of the computer parts won't run properly because the power distribution isn't stable. Hard drives die because it doesn't get the proper voltage it's getting or rather it's unstable. Miscalculations like when encoding a video, a color red may look blue or the audio may not be in sync with the video. Corrupted files when downloading or uploading, or extracting or archiving/compressing. Shorten life of CPU and graphics card since they may not be getting the power they needed.

These are just the possibilities that I came up with. The hard drives thing is definite, though. That I'm sure.

manwithnoname · Posted: Sun Sep 17, 2006 10:13 am Post subject:

darn lol i dont have the money to fix this problem
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poiurewqfdsa · Posted: Sun Sep 17, 2006 12:39 pm Post subject:

so then this "freezing" problem is due to problems w/ the hard drive? does this mean that the hard drive on my laptop is also faulty??

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poiurewqfdsa · Posted: Sun Sep 17, 2006 7:32 pm Post subject:

i have windows xp home edition running on it... 100g hard drive and 1g DDRM, Intel Centrino Duo Core processor. I think that's pretty good specs for a laptops right?