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Posted by satchmo on Fri Mar 11th at 1:20am 2005

Thanks for all the input. Someone at TechSpot refuses to give up on me also. I am glad I have so many persistent online friends who sympathize with my plight. I am sure you all can relate to the frustration I am going through.

I'll try and play around with the driver one more time. This time, I am going to completely remove the old drivers before installing the new version. Someone thinks that might be the problem. They still think it's a software problem.

I really hope it's not a hardware issue, because shipping things back and forth really isn't fun.

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Posted by Crono on Fri Mar 11th at 1:46am 2005

? quote:Thanks for all the input. Someone at TechSpot refuses to give up on me also. I am glad I have so many persistent online friends who sympathize with my plight. I am sure you all can relate to the frustration I am going through.
I'll try and play around with the driver one more time. This time, I am going to completely remove the old drivers before installing the new version. Someone thinks that might be the problem. They still think it's a software problem.
I really hope it's not a hardware issue, because shipping things back and forth really isn't fun.


I told you to try that like a week ago. [addsig]



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Posted by Orpheus on Fri Mar 11th at 1:48am 2005

? quoting Crono


I told you to try that like a week ago.

i told YOU, you din't tell him

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Posted by satchmo on Fri Mar 11th at 6:20am 2005

Great! Now my computer just reboots all the time, even when I am not playing games. This really sucks.

I was just surfing the web, and it rebooted again. I was just typing! Now I can't even use it as a word processor.

Maybe a paperweight would be useful on my desk.
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Posted by Gorbachev on Fri Mar 11th at 6:47am 2005

Are you sure the fan is working on the card, and if it's rebooting, are you sure your memory is okay?
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Posted by satchmo on Fri Mar 11th at 7:15am 2005

I just re-checked all the fans with a flashlight, and I can confirm that everything (including the Radeon fan) is working properly.

I reset the AGP voltage back to 1.5 V on the BIOS (the default), and things have been okay so far. I've been surfing for ten minutes, and nothing crashed (yet).

At this point, I am not asking for a mean gaming machine anymore. All I want is a computer that can run notepad without crashing.

That's not asking too much for an Athlon XP with 1 GB of memory, isn't it?
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Posted by Orpheus on Fri Mar 11th at 8:44am 2005

my dads pc rebooted constantly.

he had a trojan.. he was online less than 5 minutes when he acquired it.

i am afraid to ask, but you did update to ALL the newest updates .. right?

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Posted by satchmo on Fri Mar 11th at 3:14pm 2005

Yep, all the updates. And I have a hardware firewall. So nothing can come in through the DSL connection.
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Posted by Crono on Fri Mar 11th at 7:23pm 2005

Hardware firewalls still let stuff through. I have one on my cable modem AND my router and I still get some pretty pissy viruses. Good idea to have a decent anti-virus running on your computer as well.

But, this sounds funked up ... and the thing is you shouldn't settle for your computer being a word processor (many people get too frustrated to fix their computer and end up spending thousands of dollars.)... I'm not even sure what you've done up to this point exactly. [addsig]



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Posted by Gorbachev on Fri Mar 11th at 8:46pm 2005

With a firewall a trojan can easily get through, a worm generally can't. They're different things. You can easily get a trojan bacause it's using the same principle as regular internet surfing. So you'll most likely be getting it from a download, which I'm almost 100% you won't disable, or else why would you have the internet?

Worms search for un-stealthed ports and depending on their methods then butt-in. It's always good to have some form of Anti-virus (there are plenty of good free ones for personal use that don't hog memory.) This is especially true if you ever visit any sites remotely dealing with warez or porn because they are known to drop trojans in automatically just by visiting the site.

A hardware firewall is great, but when you get a trojan you're technically accepting the incoming file (through an .exe, .pif, .scr etc. etc.) And then running it...how would your firewall distinguish this fact? It can't. (In the sense of good/bad)
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