Recent content by ztekdesign

All fixed. it actually had two problems. A bad memory chip and a small piece of plastic was blocking off some of the cooling fins. I have no idea how or where the plastic got in there but I had to disassemble the case to get at it and remove it. 2 - 1gig chips are on there way and we should be...

After running mem test it shuts the PC down. I ran the test 3 times and it shut down the pc all three times. Is this normal? I'm assuming there is something wrong. Also, the windows install is a fresh install on a formatted HD. No bloatware and I did a defrag yesterday. It worked just fine a few...

Compaq NX6325 laptop Mobile Sempron 1800 mhz Ati Radeon Xpress 200 512 mb ram (showing 447.4 mb) Windows XP Home sp3 60 gig hard drive

Sounds good. I will try that. The reason I say the fan runs all the time is not just that it runs all the time but it runs on high speed almost all time. It used to slow way down when not using the computer. Now it runs fast all the time. By the way zipzoomflyhigh your comments are so helpful.

I will try that. I did a (Dr Hardware) test on it but it's 88 pages of info and I'm not sure what to look for. I'm thinking memory or hardware myself because of the fan running all the time. I seems to be clean of dirt and debris around the fan and CPU. The built in windows test, with no...

Hello, My computer has gotten slower and I completely re-installed windows. It's still slow. The fan seems to run non-stop. How can I do a hardware test?