Riley

In anycase who needs free proxy now when we have filmon?! http://www.filmon.com. Ok I don't get everything but better than nothing. Usually I just think why on earth dont you lot all complain?! there is rarely anything worth watching! House selling/renovation,relocation, antiques, quiz shows galore, little of substance, however I accept too that with 2 hours time difference I am ready for bed by the time the better stuff comes on!

No, replaced fan and damaged parts,

Yep, cricket is a very important game here we have some good teams, and there is always a friendly when the Navy is in town. Greek hospitality is renowned, its a great and very friendly place to live... and visit!

Just in case its useful for anyone else, it seems have been the fan on the psu not working, which had damaged some other bits in the psu with overheating. PC seems to be operating very smoothly now AND my text issue with the graphics card new driver is resolved, someone had suggested to check all connections so seems like dodgy power supply was the problem with that too. Sorted. Thanks for input guys and look how cool graphics card is now after hour of running, Operating System MS Windows XP Home 32-bit SP3 CPU Intel Pentium E2200 @ 2.20GHz 46 °C Conroe 65nm Technology RAM 2.00 GB Dual-Channel DDR2 @ 333MHz (5-5-5-15) Motherboard Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. P35C-DS3R (Socket 775) 47 °C Graphics SyncMaster (1280x768@60Hz) 128MB GeForce 7300 GS (Gigabyte) 72 °C Hard Drives 244GB Western Digital WDC WD25 00JB-00R SCSI Disk Device (SCSI) Optical Drives HL-DT-ST DVD-RAM GSA-H58N SCSI CdRom Device Audio USB Audio Device

I am in Acharavi , Travel with Friends Corfu; thats me! north coast. Very nice! Thanks thats in line with my thoughts. I will double check fans but am pretty sure all ok. Interestingly you will see a thread back the winter where I was asking about partitioning my hard drive, or not, as I was ready to reinstall on both my pcs. I did one (no partition) and got lazy about the other. looks like this may be pay back! Will a resintall clear a hardware conflict?

after a couple of hours the cpu and mother board go to about 55/57 and graphics card to 86/87.. I havent seen it higher than that but whens its frozen i cant get back to speccy page to check! No I updated the drivers after, and after it had been cleaned out which we thought would clear the problem... which it did for just a day. I am a read the manual after I have broken things person, and didnt see that forum, and didnt worry about the updated driver as i was sure i would be able to roll it back... but i couldn't , it said it had not got any stored drivers! Everything is functioning fine but the text is CRAP! I have middlegaed failing eyesight anyway so reading some text now is really hard. I have clear type, i have adjusted everything I can think of and it doesnt help.... so on the freezing issue do you really think the graphics card is the culprit? Though its hot it doesnt seem to be so hot when I read what temps gamers graphics cards get up to?

OS snap shot at start up: Operating System: MS Windows XP Home 32-bit SP3 CPU: Intel Pentium E2200 @ 2.20GHz 44 °C Conroe 65nm Technology RAM: 2.00 GB Dual-Channel DDR2 @ 333MHz (5-5-5-15) Motherboard: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. P35C-DS3R (Socket 775) 44 °C Graphics : SyncMaster (1360x768@70Hz) 128MB GeForce 7300 GS (Gigabyte) 60 °C Hard Drives: 244GB Western Digital WDC WD25 00JB-00R SCSI Disk Device (SCSI) Optical Drives : HL-DT-ST DVD-RAM GSA-H58N SCSI CdRom Device Audio: USB Audio Device Any secrets of my problem revealed there?

OS snap shot at start up: Operating System: MS Windows XP Home 32-bit SP3 CPU: Intel Pentium E2200 @ 2.20GHz 44 °C Conroe 65nm Technology RAM: 2.00 GB Dual-Channel DDR2 @ 333MHz (5-5-5-15) Motherboard: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. P35C-DS3R (Socket 775) 44 °C Graphics : SyncMaster (1360x768@70Hz) 128MB GeForce 7300 GS (Gigabyte) 60 °C Hard Drives: 244GB Western Digital WDC WD25 00JB-00R SCSI Disk Device (SCSI) Optical Drives : HL-DT-ST DVD-RAM GSA-H58N SCSI CdRom Device Audio: USB Audio Device Any secrets of my problem revealed there?

Ugh! Thats one of those videos you wish you didnt have to watch! Glad for the heads up though didnt know we have it here and we have A LOT of ticks in spring.

on office PC now so will do summary later, but can say I had to get a friend who knows (not here now) to do the cleaning so know the fan is functioning and is clean. Was told taking the sides off and using pc was not good as the fans create a through draft which works better with sides on? I have never tried taking things apart inside the pc.. so bit nervous of doing so without knowing whats what!! Actually its only about 28c today. Pc sits under my desk, same place it has for last 3 years without problem, its been a LOT hotter than it is now, so it seems to me its something that has happened now or changed or broken? ! Am I being simplistic? CPU and Mother board both running around 55c.

Desk top. All cleaned out. It was then good for a day and half then next morning started again. Was getting really worried I had a real problem as I couldn't post! I've not got many posts but I have got more than 15! I eat the fish that my brother catches (Dan) so I'm kinda peripheral to all the activity! But you have all been very helpful on techie stuff for me; I do have a knowledge problem (lack of!) here in Corfu! Reading some forum stuff some people's graphics cards seem to go over 100c which makes mine look tame! Question is, after cleaning whats the next step? This was the details that speccy gives me... this was before it heated up too much! Does it tell you anything useful? Monitor Name SyncMaster on NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GS Current Resolution 1360x768 pixels Work Resolution 1360x738 pixels State enabled, primary, output devices support Monitor Width 1360 Monitor Height 768 Monitor BPP 32 bits per pixel Monitor Frequency 70 Hz Device \\.\DISPLAY1\Monitor0 GeForce 7300 GS GPU G72 Device ID 10DE-01DF Revision A2 Subvendor Gigabyte (1458) Current Performance Level Level 1 Current GPU Clock 550 MHz Current Memory Clock 800 MHz Technology 91 nm Die Size 77 nmІ Transistors 112 M Release Date Jan 2006 DirectX Support 9.0c DirectX Shader Model 3.0 OpenGL Support 2.0 Bus Interface PCI Express x16 Temperature 63 °C GPU Clock 550 MHz Memory Clock 800 MHz Driver nv4_disp.dll Driver version 6.14.12.7533 ForceWare version 275.33 BIOS Version 5.72.22.43.00 ROPs 2 Shaders Vertex 4/Pixel 4 Memory Type DDR2 Physical Memory 128 MB Virtual Memory 512 MB Bus Width 64 Bit Pixel Fillrate 1.1 GPixels/s Texture Fillrate 1.1 GTexels/s Bandwidth 12.8 GB/s Count of performance levels : 1 Level 0 GPU Clock 550 MHz Memory Clock 800 MHz Thank for your time Newt.

Here am I again, I am beginning to develop a real love hate relationship with my electronic friend, rather more than hate than love right now! A couple of months ago PC started randomly freezing. I would power down then restart; all ok again for weeks, then bang again...a quick Google makes it look like a hardware conflict though i cannot think what I havent got anything new. Device manager doesnt show any conflict says everything working ok. Eventually I arrived at the point where it would barely stay booted for more than a few mins, advice was maybe overheating ( it is hot here and fans etc had not been cleaned properly for a while) good clean of fans made it ok for a couple of days, BUT now I am back to square one. I ran speccy, it shows CPU running at 56c but graphics card running at 86C??!! If I try and reboot too quickly i get that bad beep... just one quite long one and it doesnt boot at all. Leave it a few mins then it does boot with that nice little happy beep. Anybody seeing anything they recognise ? Where do I start to diagnose my problem? So many of you seem to eat and sleep computers am hoping sometime will come up with something that doesn't mean me taking it to a repair place as there is no one here i would trust to do anything serious........... Thanks in advance

Ummm how did you do that then?!

Yes i know. I have a rather addictive personality and my favourite word is WHY. My computer Guru, a man rather like you I guess, who just understands what the PC is telling him, hates me as soon as he sees that word coming! Once I start messing around on here hours go by and other jobs which should have been done stay undone. I know lots of people hate Norton. It works for me, its much lighter than it used to be. The utilities, I have only just started using, hasnt slowed anything down and if it helps keep everything oiled and working thats fine by me, cos when it comes to registry etc etc I leave that to the experts. I would of course love to call upon your services but suspect the call out charge might be a bit excessive for Corfu! I have just plugged the HD to back up ( Norton Ghost for now) Will certainly look into the other options shown above... bit unsure as what is safest now! One more question for today....how can I, or just can I make a bootable disc from Ghost? (probably an answer on the cd I guess?! Thanks

Oh dear this is about the point I lose the will to live. I buy what is uptodate at the time, by the time I learn to use it, get used to it ,its already outr of date! I do know about the solid state drive ; I definitely don't have one. The last Seagate external hard dive I had probably died of fright because, out of ignorance, I was using it like a flash drive; taking it home to office and back ( not telling why in case Greek tax man is watching this thread!) suffice to say they don't like to move about much. My Trekstore is left standing and moved very gently when needs be... lesson learned the best way.. by hitting my pocket!. I am beginning to think I want the life back that I had before I owned a PC!!

WOW! kirisute, thank you, that makes it all so clear, you are obviously used to explaining it to the less knowledgeable! I shall actually print this thread and read and inwardly digest ... before I act on it, unusual for me I am normally of the school of "read the notes/manual after its gone wrong!"

, I wondered where you had been bro, thought you had fallen out of love with fishing! Still havent done my clean re install, typically its behaving ok at the moment so seems silly to push my luck. My Norton Internet security came with Norton Utilities this year which I have installed, wouldnt it be nice if its sorted things out?! Somehow doubt it. When the day comes that I take the plunge beware this thread will become red hot!!

I use Norton Ghost, I have only had to use it to restore corrupt files,so far; mainly photos which was great! Very easy to use. How do you rate it for saving all your valuable data!? I have room to keep 3 full Norton back ups on my external harddrive , each time I make a new one I delete the oldest one to make room... My e mails are my business so I back up Outlook as pst files which has saved my bacon several times. I always feel there cant be much point in backing up C drive cos if it crashes due to virus/malware etc, or in may case the pc is behaving very flakiliy lately and needs a clean re install... using Norton wont I be copying across all the problems too? Thanks for your tips, still struggling with my new years resolution to back up more often!

question deleted...silly question... found answer... sorry!

Bah! had one of those and it crashed in a very short space of time...now have a Trekstore external hard drive only 160gb... cant remember what it cost but more than that! I'm in Greece.. everything electronic is much more than in Uk and of course we have that wonderful currency the Euro! It works.. I have about 3 full back ups and I just delete the oldest to make room for a new one! New years resolution... remember to back up more often!!

Yes this is why my drive was partitioned in the first place, but this business of C not being big enough is a pain! Cant think i would go more than two. Back up?! D#$% must do it again! I'm not as reliable as I should be... Thanks for guidance guys.. hope you all had a great Christmas and New year!

I KNEW you would make it sound easy! I have done it before a couple of times but it was a while ago so needed a helping hand! I think when I install from this CD I'm not given the option of installing SP2 separately? I have now put the newly downloaded SP3 onto Cd so can install from that... wont need a temporary folder then will I? Thanks for your patience!! Sue

Thanks, I used to pop in here a lot to keep an eye on my bro; Dan, somehow life has taken lots of weird turns and Anglers net dropped off my radar, whilst I was pondering the state of my computer I actually remembered your amazing knowledge and help... so here I am , and was hoping you would still be around! Ok.. so before i mess things up even further, my windows xp disc came with service pack 2, please tell me if it has 2 it will have 1 as well!? ( even though it doesn't say so!?) Another duh moment... if I copy it to tempory file on hard drive wont it get wiped when I reinstall? I guess I can put it on a CD from the folder on mem stick? So sequence will be: reinstall windows, install sp3, install antivirus (I have Norton internet security) then internet connection to update everything? Now I "have you", my hard drive is partioned to C & D, C isnt big enough, 20gig, and D is 185. how big should I make C, I think its outlook that needs a lot of space and I have small business and have a lot of e mails i have to keep. How much better is it to have my disc partitioned. As it is I cant defrag C, but someone told me I shouldn't anyway? System restore doesnt work either which I think is for same reason...so i have never really known how useful system restore is!?

Thanks, thats what I thought you would say! Wouldnt save to CD so am saving to a memory stick... hope that will work?

System restore doesn't work I think because I don't have enough space on C drive; tried that. Thanks I'll try the down load.