Help Needed with New PC

[ere_in_cornwall]

Hello All, I bought my computer from pc world last year it cost £599 for the tower alone, below are the specs

MICROSOFT XP HOME EDITION SP2
1GB RAM
260GB HARD DISK SPACE
256MB NVIDIA GRAPHICS CARD
DVD-RW
MEDIA READER/WRITER
ETC

Ive noticed that when the machine has been on for around 2 hours, or when playing a game, the machine almost comes to a hault, windows desktop slows, can i send you a log somehow? i dont have tiem time to re-format. Thanks

Lawrie

 

[homerj14]

what kind of GPU??

 

[Dexaroni]

I would make sure that your video card is working correctly. You can do this in the device manager. At least see if update drivers are available.

Another possibility is a scheduled task going on in the background after a set amount of time, or at a certain point (ie. when you start a game).

Hope I was able to help.

Dex

 

[ere_in_cornwall]

Hi if you mean cpu? i have a pentium 4 processor, i will download the updates for the graphics card, also how do i work out what task might be in the background? would it be easier to send you log?

 

[CrazeD]

I doubt it would be a scheduled task, as they usually don't schedule themselves. But to check, go to Control Panel > Scheduled tasks. If there's none there, then there aren't any tasks.

My guess would be virus/spyware, or heat. What are your CPU temps?

 

[Dexaroni]

Ah yes, heat would do it. Running processor intensive programs such as games would do that. Go into your bios and check the temps.

Alternatively, you can send me a log at dexcarm89 at gmail.com and I will look it over, I'm not sure how much good it will do.