I recently gave my brother some of my old pc2700 ddr ram (512mb) and my old Geforce 3 ti200 128mb grfx card... These both worked fine in my old system but i upgraded and didnt need them anymore and gave them to him for free.
he was experiencing a lot of slowdown on his machine while doing complex audio processing (he makes a lot of music) and I thought the ram would help him out, his old ATI grfx card couldnt really cope with call of duty so my old card was meant to help him with that...
HOWEVER
having installed them in his machine when loading XP the screen flashes blue about three times and then continues as normal. Then his system reboots randomly when in windows (he can sometimes use windows for hours with no probs, then other times he only gets a few mins in xp before it reboots. He says it is just as if he hit the reset button, its that instant and there is no BSOD or anything.
He has noticed that it likes to reboot while using Norton Antivirus to do a system scan. But this isnt the only time it reboots.
I told him to download memtest86... he did and let it cycle for a few hours and it found no errors.. so the ram looks fine.
I never had any problems with the graphics card so I dont know why this would cause problems (if indeed it is)
My thoughts turn to his psu... but why would that make the loading /login screen flash blue?
I am pretty stuck with helping him, i have suggested reseating the cards and installing new drivers... but he is still experiencing the problem!
His system spec:
ASUS A7V333 mobo
AMD Athlon XP 2100+
1gig 2700 DDR Ram
Geforce 3 Ti 200 128mb
SB Audigy
HD - I dont know
PSU - I dont know... came with his system
Any help would be great... he is starting to get stressed out!
he was experiencing a lot of slowdown on his machine while doing complex audio processing (he makes a lot of music) and I thought the ram would help him out, his old ATI grfx card couldnt really cope with call of duty so my old card was meant to help him with that...
HOWEVER
having installed them in his machine when loading XP the screen flashes blue about three times and then continues as normal. Then his system reboots randomly when in windows (he can sometimes use windows for hours with no probs, then other times he only gets a few mins in xp before it reboots. He says it is just as if he hit the reset button, its that instant and there is no BSOD or anything.
He has noticed that it likes to reboot while using Norton Antivirus to do a system scan. But this isnt the only time it reboots.
I told him to download memtest86... he did and let it cycle for a few hours and it found no errors.. so the ram looks fine.
I never had any problems with the graphics card so I dont know why this would cause problems (if indeed it is)
My thoughts turn to his psu... but why would that make the loading /login screen flash blue?
I am pretty stuck with helping him, i have suggested reseating the cards and installing new drivers... but he is still experiencing the problem!
His system spec:
ASUS A7V333 mobo
AMD Athlon XP 2100+
1gig 2700 DDR Ram
Geforce 3 Ti 200 128mb
SB Audigy
HD - I dont know
PSU - I dont know... came with his system
Any help would be great... he is starting to get stressed out!