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Henry_3   07-03-2009 at 05:48:13 AM

I am wanting to get an older PC able to run video & little kids games from internet sites and also DVD movies for my grandson to see. Currently they may run for a short time then quit and occasionally the machine locks up. Here is what I have:

Gateway Model 700SE
Intel P4 2.0Ghz w/512k cache.
MOBO has 512k RDram PC800 RAMBUS
32MB NVIDIA Geforce2 MX200 AGP Graphics board
New 80GB hard drive
Running XP

I am thinking that memory is an issue both on MOBO and on the Graphics card. But not being very knowledgeable, I am not sure.

Also, Virtual memory could add to the problem ... maybe??
Any help would be so very much appreciated.
Thanks,
Henry


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Twoboxer   07-03-2009 at 08:22:54 AM
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The lock up could be caused by any number of your oldish components failing under load . . . power supply, vid card, or even memory. Because of the RAMBUS memory, its not even cheap and easy to toss new/more memory at the problem.

It could be a full hard disk, but I think since the HD is new you'd already have seen if that was the problem.

Because of the lock-up, I'm guessing more a failure somewhere rather than just a memory issue. In all honesty, this may be the time to pick up an inexpensive new computer to attach to your monitor.

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Lavarin   07-03-2009 at 09:25:51 AM
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It's possible that your memory is having problems, or your power supply has conked out. How many years have you had this computer?

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Henry_3   07-03-2009 at 05:44:36 PM
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Both comments very helpful. This is an old "dog" that I was trying to cobble together for my grandson to watch some stuff on and I too believe it to be bad memory or vid board or just too little memory. PS is new and OS, etc. reloaded and working just fine, so I am guessing the mobo/vid card/rambus are possible.
I am going to adjust the virtual memory and if still a problem, will dump mobo and get an inexpensive replacement that accepts some cheaper memory. Your right ...... RAMBUS memory is really expensive.
Thanks so much!
Henry

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Twoboxer   07-03-2009 at 09:49:44 PM
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You probably already know this, but the kinds of things your grandkids (and mine) are doing can be done using motherboard graphics, inexpensive memory, though perhaps you might need to add a cheap new processor.

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Henry_3   07-04-2009 at 12:26:13 AM
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Just what I was thinking too. Thanks!

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