Hey
Basically I have been having problems with my pc for a few months now. It was turning itself off a lot if I tried to do anything taxing (sometimes as little as having media player open would turn it off) and was generally running much much slower than before. I had previously been able to play games such as oblivion etc but was struggling to play dawn of war. I installed some software for temperature checking etc and noticed the processor was extremely hot and must of been over hot for some time eventually i got round to buying a new one same spec.
Whilst this has speeded up my pc a bit (the temp is also much lower now and the pc isn't turning itself off) its still much slower than before and games are impossible to play at any acceptable rate with some of them just locking up. The task bar at the bottom of windows also locks up on occasion for a few seconds so I cannot open or close any windows which. It just seems that a lot of the time the pc is one step behind the click of my mouse.
Below are my specs the graphics card (and i can ramp the graphics right up so I don't think this is the problem) is pretty new as is the PSU and obviously the processor is new. Any help or advice with what you think could be wrong would be greatly appreciated.
OS
Xp service pack 2
Pentium 4 HT 3.0ghz (not over clocked)
Geforce FX6800 AGP (not over clocked)
600 watt PSU
2 x 512MB SDRAM pc3200
asus p4p800-vm motherboard
(think thats all correct)
Bare in mind too that all these components were installed together when I was happily running about with my sword in oblivion killing numerous beasties, so it all worked at some point.
Basically I have been having problems with my pc for a few months now. It was turning itself off a lot if I tried to do anything taxing (sometimes as little as having media player open would turn it off) and was generally running much much slower than before. I had previously been able to play games such as oblivion etc but was struggling to play dawn of war. I installed some software for temperature checking etc and noticed the processor was extremely hot and must of been over hot for some time eventually i got round to buying a new one same spec.
Whilst this has speeded up my pc a bit (the temp is also much lower now and the pc isn't turning itself off) its still much slower than before and games are impossible to play at any acceptable rate with some of them just locking up. The task bar at the bottom of windows also locks up on occasion for a few seconds so I cannot open or close any windows which. It just seems that a lot of the time the pc is one step behind the click of my mouse.
Below are my specs the graphics card (and i can ramp the graphics right up so I don't think this is the problem) is pretty new as is the PSU and obviously the processor is new. Any help or advice with what you think could be wrong would be greatly appreciated.
OS
Xp service pack 2
Pentium 4 HT 3.0ghz (not over clocked)
Geforce FX6800 AGP (not over clocked)
600 watt PSU
2 x 512MB SDRAM pc3200
asus p4p800-vm motherboard
(think thats all correct)
Bare in mind too that all these components were installed together when I was happily running about with my sword in oblivion killing numerous beasties, so it all worked at some point.