So my cousin's been having a hard time with his PC lately. Before I say anything, here are his specs:
[code]Operating System
MS Windows XP Professional 32-bit SP3
CPU
Intel Pentium E2200 @ 2.20GHz43 °C
Conroe 65nm Technology
RAM
2.0GB Single-Channel DDR2 @ 336MHz (5-5-5-15)
Motherboard
MICRO-STAR INTERNATIONAL CO.,LTD MS-7507 (CPU 1)
Graphics
Default Monitor @ 1280x1024
Default Monitor @ 1280x1024
512MB GeForce 9800 GT (nVidia)45 °C
Hard Drives
488GB Matrox STM3500418AS (SATA)32 °C
Optical Drives
TSSTcorp CDDVDW SH-S223F
QVUJYL G5UVG1E SCSI CdRom Device
Audio
Realtek High Definition Audio[/code]
Those are idle temps, by the way.
Basically, in most games (Fallout 3/NV, Half Life, a lot of other games that he's had on his HDD for a while) freeze after a few minutes of gameplay and require a hard reboot to get out of it. He's been playing World of Warcraft and Saints Row 2 completely fine. He also recently installed Dead Space, and that works fine too.
He's done a complete disk defragmentation (it's took days for him to do it, something ridiculous like 73% fragmentation)
His graphics card is new, got it at Christmas. He's saying now that when games crash to a black screen, he can see the display on his other monitor so I doubt it's got anything to do with his GPU.
Any thoughts on the matter? I've just said do a full reformat and install Windows 7 64bit and buy some extra RAM.
Old drivers or bad gpu.
[QUOTE=moesislack;28530854]Old drivers or bad gpu.[/QUOTE]
It was happening before he got his 9800GT, and he updated his drivers about an hour ago.
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