Hey there guys!!
This forum has been an awfully large help in the past with software problems I've had so I was hoping it could be of equal help with some hardware problems I've been having.
I currently run my computer with the side open and a 19" occilating fan blowing into it... don't ask me why this seems to help but it does. Or at least it HAD solved all the problems until the last couple of months where now I am unable to watch five minutes of a dvd before it freezes up on me. First I hear a click (or a variation thereof), then the screen either becomes a series of lines accross or it goes blue, sometimes I have even gotten it to tell me that it's having a 0x0000009C problem. At first I only needed to run the fan while I was gaming, later I needed to run the fan at a higher speed to game, and now it doesn't matter what speed my poor little helper fan is on... my poor computer can't seem to do any gaming or video watching.
The problem is I'm not sure if the video card is what needs replacing or the power supply. Is there a way to test this? Or is it time for a complete overhaul (which I hope it isn't but...)
Alrighty here's at least some specs :)
CPU BRAND: AMD Athlon(tm) Processor 2800+
CPU Speed: 1817 MHz
OS: Windows XP5.1 (Build 2600) Service Pack 2
Memory:
Physical Total: 1,073,201,152 bytes (1024 MB)
Physical Free: 620,765,184 bytes (593 MB) (and I don't know what's taking up that much ram since nothing else is open but anyways...)
Page File Total: 1,774,657,536 bytes (1693 MB)
Page File Free: 1,416,380,416 bytes (1351 MB)
Virtual Total: 2,147,352,576 bytes (2048 MB)
Virtual Free: 2,094,809,088 bytes (1998 MB)
Pretty sure the RAM is DDR
Harddrive:
Quantum Fireballp AS40.0
Size: 41,107,701,760
Video Card:
RADEON 9800 PRO AGP (0x4E48)
Internal DAC(400MHz)
134217728 bytes (128 MB)
Nothing (as far as I know) is overclocked.
Is this the kind of problem that I can mix myself by ordering certain pieces online or am I going to need to take this into a tech specialist?
Thanks for your time fellas
