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More info?)
Glad to help
steve
<anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Steve,
>
> Thanks very much for your reply. Excellent.
> I suspected that the "clicking" was possibly a HDD problem
> and suggested to my brother in law that he back his stuff
> up if he got it going again (because he hasn't in the
> past) he generally uses just for internet and games sonot
> really anything to worry about there.
>
> I agree that 128mb of ram is slim, for any computer these
> days, so will update that for him next time I'm down there.
>
> So its not the newly installed graphics card, just a 4
> year old failing HDD and to little ram.
>
> Steve, many thanks again.
>
>
> Kevin
> >-----Original Message-----
> >a "funny clicking noise" , a.k.a. "The Click Of Doom"
> and "The Click Of
> >Death" usually indicates a soon-to-be dead hard drive.
> As the read-head
> >strikes a platter on the hard drive, it "clicks', in the
> process destroying
> >a portion of the platter (and any data residing there).
> If it happened to
> >strike a portion of the platter where data about the TV
> card was stored, you
> >most certainly will receive an error message.
> >
> >Of course your brother-in-law religiously backs up his
> data every day, so he
> >needn't worry about losing it when the drive inevitably
> dies.
> >
> >by-the-by, 128MB of RAM is rather slim for Windows XP --
> just barely enough
> >to load the Operating System. Any programs will mostly
> be moving to and
> >from the Page File on the hard drive (constantly working
> the drive and
> >read/write head). Most knowledgeable users of XP
> recommend a minimum of
> >256. If you use any graphics programs, multi-task, or
> play modern games, a
> >reasonable minimum is 512 MB.
> >
> >[consider: At the moment I have MS Word loaded = 14.5
> MB; Excel = 17.2 MB,
> >Outlook = 19.5 MB ... three programs = 51 MB of memory]
> >
> >steve
> >
> >
> >"Kevin" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
> message
> >news:6e0901c42f11$c57c1750$a101280a@phx.gbl...
> >> A couple of weeks ago I installed a Asus V9560 GeForce
> >> FX5600XT 128MB DDR AGP, Tv-Out/DVI-I graphics card in my
> >> brother in laws PC.
> >> WinXp home, P4 2.4, 128 ram.
> >>
> >> I was staying down there for a week and installed and
> >> tested it for most of the week, no problems.
> >> He phoned my tonight and said that when he started his
> PC
> >> he got an error message "You have installed new hardware
> >> PC won't work" kind of thing. That was after it ran scan
> >> disc.
> >> He also said that there was a funny clicking noise
> coming
> >> from the PC, then it freezes or shuts down.
> >>
> >> Does anyone have any ideas about this please?
> >>
> >> Kevin
> >
> >
> >.
> >