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Athlon/ME Stability Problems

  • 26-07-2003 08:40PM
    #1
    GuanYin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,552 ✭✭✭✭


    My family have a 1200 Athlon, 392MB, Win ME system and its freezing any time I try multitasking or if a page loads or sometimes for no apparent reason at all.

    I have DMA enabled, the graphics acceleration is off and I have nothing in the start up an dI'm still getting no joy.

    Any ideas would be most appreciated.


Comments

  • #2
    Ruu_Old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭Ruu_Old


    do u uninstall programs regulary or anything? U should try a registry cleanup, disk cleanup or defrag. Use something like Norton Utilities to snoop out old files and useless reg entries, might help u along :) hope it helps.


  • #3
    Virus_Inc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 333 ✭✭Virus_Inc


    Get rid of ME. It is, in my opinion, the biggest pile of bugridden crap that M$ ever produced. But that's just my opinion.
    Also those AXIA/AVIA vintage Athlons ran pretty hot... perhaps heatsink is a little clogged with dust and could use a clean?
    Perhaps a better heatsink - if it's a family out-of-the-box computer it probably only has a stock heatsink on it. Back in the day when I had a chip like that I had a GlobalWin FOP32 sitting on top of it - it made a noise like a 747 taking off but by god it kept it cool!


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