- Mar 9, 2015
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I have an HP pavilion a6009n desktop PC. Most of its 14 year life it has run XP pro. For a year or more it has been crashing on an particular website with a screen similar to http://i.imgur.com/yelfV5E.jpg. About a month ago Win 7 pro was installed and the problem became a little more frequent, subsequently it has become more frequent. About 80% of the time crashes occur on a mouse click. A right click in the tool gray almost always results in a crash. The PSU was replaced by a Rosewill Stallion 450 watt 2 years ago. At the beginning of October memory was upgraded to 4 x 2GB DDR2 PC4200 533MHz. This made no difference. There are 3 HDDs attached totaling 3.4amps. There are 2 optical drives and a backup WD USB passport ultra HDD. I will disconnect 2 HDDs to see if that has any effect.
This machine is used for general browsing, E-mail, word-processing, downloading, video streaming and video reprocessing. No gaming.
My hunch is that the integrated video graphics is failing.
The question is it worth adding a $100 graphics board or are there more cost effective options I should consider? Can the new RAM and PSU be included in a rebuild? I would like to stay with Win7 but I think I only have an OEM key.
Advice much appreciated. John.
This machine is used for general browsing, E-mail, word-processing, downloading, video streaming and video reprocessing. No gaming.
My hunch is that the integrated video graphics is failing.
The question is it worth adding a $100 graphics board or are there more cost effective options I should consider? Can the new RAM and PSU be included in a rebuild? I would like to stay with Win7 but I think I only have an OEM key.
Advice much appreciated. John.
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