Ok, I built this computer on Thanksgiving. Was a great rig and was running excellent untill about 2 weeks ago when it started slowing down and freezing up after I got onto windows and tried to do a couple things. For instance...If I double click an icon on my desktop the hourglass will come on for 2 minutes and go away and nothing will happen. Or if I try to play Call of Duty it will only get so far then the whole computer will lock up and I will have to reboot it just to go back to the same thing all over again. It seems to run at about 20% of its capability and doesnt like to open anything up.
I have tryed to test my RAM with a memory test I have on a floppy that runs in DOS but this computer will not read my floppy from boot up. All my other computers do. I went into bios and changed the boot sequence from..... First boot - Removable drive(doesnt give me a option for floppy). Second boot - CD and Third boot - Hard drive. Still wouldnt read the disk in DOS. I tried a few other sequences but NOTHING!
So....I just bought new Ram. I didnt want to RMA the ram I have because Im unable to check if its bad or not. Besides I figured I couldnt go wrong buying another 2 sticks of 512mb to add to the computer.
Well I got the new ram and I replaced the old ram with it..But nothing. Still does the same thing. I have them both in the orange slots, the ones there supposed to be in. I have also ran all my Norton scans, Spybot scans, ran disk clean up and checked to see if I needed to run disk defragmenter...but didn't need to.
Well here are the system specs of the computer...
Case - Aspire X-Cruise
PSU- OCZ Modstream 520w
Mobo - DFI Lanparty Ultra - D
CPU - 3200+ venice
Video - Evga 6600gt PCIX
RAM - Corsair VS 2x512mb (1gb)
H.D. - Seagate barracuda 7200.7 80gb ATA150
Sony - CD/RW
Sony - Floppy
I would greatly appreciate any help on this issue. Its such a great computer, Its a shame that its running like this : (
I have tryed to test my RAM with a memory test I have on a floppy that runs in DOS but this computer will not read my floppy from boot up. All my other computers do. I went into bios and changed the boot sequence from..... First boot - Removable drive(doesnt give me a option for floppy). Second boot - CD and Third boot - Hard drive. Still wouldnt read the disk in DOS. I tried a few other sequences but NOTHING!
So....I just bought new Ram. I didnt want to RMA the ram I have because Im unable to check if its bad or not. Besides I figured I couldnt go wrong buying another 2 sticks of 512mb to add to the computer.
Well I got the new ram and I replaced the old ram with it..But nothing. Still does the same thing. I have them both in the orange slots, the ones there supposed to be in. I have also ran all my Norton scans, Spybot scans, ran disk clean up and checked to see if I needed to run disk defragmenter...but didn't need to.
Well here are the system specs of the computer...
Case - Aspire X-Cruise
PSU- OCZ Modstream 520w
Mobo - DFI Lanparty Ultra - D
CPU - 3200+ venice
Video - Evga 6600gt PCIX
RAM - Corsair VS 2x512mb (1gb)
H.D. - Seagate barracuda 7200.7 80gb ATA150
Sony - CD/RW
Sony - Floppy
I would greatly appreciate any help on this issue. Its such a great computer, Its a shame that its running like this : (