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PC cutting down
Posted:
Sat Apr 30, 2005 11:15 amby luke
Hi again,
the last three days my 2yr old banger started new trick of suddenly shutting down in the middle of things, and once felt guilty and did a restart.
Only once when I restarted it it showed:-
" CMOS checksum errordefaults loaded ".
Any sugestions? thanx
Re: PC cutting down
Posted:
Sat Apr 30, 2005 1:16 pmby Dan
Did it boot into XP as it should? If you did an OC on it then that is what it has probably re-set. If not, does it do it everytime you boot?
Dan
Re: PC cutting down
Posted:
Sat Apr 30, 2005 2:57 pmby luke
Do'nt remember if it went as far as XP,
just can't think what "OC" means' and
not every time I start the PC.
Could my very poor gfx card be overloaded with fs9 etc causing the shutdown?
Also Dan, I am saving for a 6600 gt grfx card, and noticed you use one with 128mb. Would I be better with 256?.
By then I will up to AMD 3500ghz, 1gb ram etc.
Re: PC cutting down
Posted:
Sun May 01, 2005 11:13 pmby the_autopilot
OC means overclocking, but it seems you don't know what that means, so I dbout you overclocked.
A 6600 gt is perfect. Again, don't worry about mem size. a 6600 gt with 128mb will perform MUCH better in fs2004 (and many other games like doom 3) than a 256 mb 9800 Xt.
Re: PC cutting down
Posted:
Mon May 02, 2005 3:29 amby luke
OK, so 128 or 256 will be same on 6600gt grfx card.
Not OCed.
PC cut off again, two days ago, three consecutive times when I dialed up and tried to download an update to my old w98 "Beatle" time-updating small progr.
The first time it rebooted to XP.
No repeats since.