I apologize if this is the wrong place to ask this, but i couldn't find a more appropriate forum section.
I'm attempting to troubleshoot an old P4 system, that doesn't want to work correctly anymore.
In it is a Asus P4S800
an Intel P4 3.06 ghz
and 2x1gb sticks of Kingston value ram.
There are also 2 hard drives 2 CD rom drives, and a floppy.
All this is running off some generic 350watt PSU which ran things fine for years.
Right now it doesn't have a Videocard since i cannibalized it for another computer after the issues started.
The symptoms are very strange. First on installing windows on a freshly reformatted harddrive the installation freezes every time it's supposed to reboot. As far as i can tell it does everything it's supposed to do. But when it tries to reboot it fails. Manually rebooting it allows the windows installation to finish, without any problems and it works fine up until i try to install the drivers for the graphics card.
I believe the card was a 7600GS, but that shouldn't matter as it's working great in my wifes computer where i installed it to test it, and since left it there as it was an upgrade for her.
What happens is upon rebooting after installing the nvidia drivers, the computer takes a long time to load windows, and then wants it loads up, the mouse is unresponsive bouncing every few seconds to whereever i've attempted to move it. At first i thought perhaps it was a bad driver installation, or that my old HD had corrupted sectors.
A new windows installation (with the exact same reboot issue), on a new HD later, i installed a different set of drivers and it seemed to fix the problem... for about 24 hours. Then the issue happened spontaneously and that's when i figured it was the GFX card... Three days later that card is still happily chugging along in my wifes computer.
I have another graphics card laying around somwhere i could use for this thing, but i have no idea what the problem could be. What would cause the computer to run but run terribly, with the mouse skipping and everything taking 5X as long as it should?
I'm attempting to troubleshoot an old P4 system, that doesn't want to work correctly anymore.
In it is a Asus P4S800
an Intel P4 3.06 ghz
and 2x1gb sticks of Kingston value ram.
There are also 2 hard drives 2 CD rom drives, and a floppy.
All this is running off some generic 350watt PSU which ran things fine for years.
Right now it doesn't have a Videocard since i cannibalized it for another computer after the issues started.
The symptoms are very strange. First on installing windows on a freshly reformatted harddrive the installation freezes every time it's supposed to reboot. As far as i can tell it does everything it's supposed to do. But when it tries to reboot it fails. Manually rebooting it allows the windows installation to finish, without any problems and it works fine up until i try to install the drivers for the graphics card.
I believe the card was a 7600GS, but that shouldn't matter as it's working great in my wifes computer where i installed it to test it, and since left it there as it was an upgrade for her.
What happens is upon rebooting after installing the nvidia drivers, the computer takes a long time to load windows, and then wants it loads up, the mouse is unresponsive bouncing every few seconds to whereever i've attempted to move it. At first i thought perhaps it was a bad driver installation, or that my old HD had corrupted sectors.
A new windows installation (with the exact same reboot issue), on a new HD later, i installed a different set of drivers and it seemed to fix the problem... for about 24 hours. Then the issue happened spontaneously and that's when i figured it was the GFX card... Three days later that card is still happily chugging along in my wifes computer.
I have another graphics card laying around somwhere i could use for this thing, but i have no idea what the problem could be. What would cause the computer to run but run terribly, with the mouse skipping and everything taking 5X as long as it should?
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