danydrunk
09-22-2005, 10:16 PM
I dont assume that you will magically know exactly what is happening to my computer, but maybe you can help me figuring out what is causing this.
I just formatted my computer (complete formatting) and I thought it was going to get rid of this problem but it didnt. The computer is clean free of malware, spam popups etc. but no matter what program I install to it they crash after a just minutes of use.
The first program I installed was firefox and even firefox suffers from this. The machine is very unstable and what I want to know is if hardware can cause this? maybe causing an error to the computer??
my settings are:
athlon xp at 2100 +
1 gig of ram (three sticks two from the same brand one from a different brand)
Sound blaster pci audio card
geforce 2 gts 64
(dont remember mother board)
The only 2 things that I can think of are:
1- the geforce 2 drivers. When I was installing them windows said the drivers did not passed the compatibilty test....usually I dont care about this, but can this be causing the error? my videocard is from hercules guillemot, they dont have any updated drivers.........
2- the usb mouse works and then stops working....maybe the usb port is causing a problem??
I dont know maybe you can give at least ideas of things that make computer programs crash.....thanks
I just formatted my computer (complete formatting) and I thought it was going to get rid of this problem but it didnt. The computer is clean free of malware, spam popups etc. but no matter what program I install to it they crash after a just minutes of use.
The first program I installed was firefox and even firefox suffers from this. The machine is very unstable and what I want to know is if hardware can cause this? maybe causing an error to the computer??
my settings are:
athlon xp at 2100 +
1 gig of ram (three sticks two from the same brand one from a different brand)
Sound blaster pci audio card
geforce 2 gts 64
(dont remember mother board)
The only 2 things that I can think of are:
1- the geforce 2 drivers. When I was installing them windows said the drivers did not passed the compatibilty test....usually I dont care about this, but can this be causing the error? my videocard is from hercules guillemot, they dont have any updated drivers.........
2- the usb mouse works and then stops working....maybe the usb port is causing a problem??
I dont know maybe you can give at least ideas of things that make computer programs crash.....thanks