I built this computer back in 2007 going for a bang for buck and its lasted me very well, however it has been having great difficulty this last month and is slowly getting worse. I am very opposed to the idea of buying a new PC if i can help it, so i want to see if there is anything i can do to keep this one going. Before I explain the problems I will give you the specs.
Windows 7 64bit
Intel core duo E6550 2.33GHZ
2gb ddr2 ram
ATI Radeon HD3850
600w psu
and one 233gb hdd
So whats happening is its randomly freezing every now and again frequently for a couple of minutes at a time whether I am playing games or just browsing the internet, although its more extreme when I'm (trying to)playing games usually leading to blue screen of death and at one point i couldn't even switch it back on. So i thought it was a hardware problem and I ran the BurnIn Test and it hasn't found any problems with my hardware EVEN when it froze during the test. I under-clocked my graphics card to increase the stability as i thought that might be the problem but it didn't help. One time it came up with a black bios like screen on start up saying "American Megatrends ect etc your cpu settings are running too high..." or something so i set them all to default(although they already were) but im not sure about playing around with clock speeds on the cpu so i tried to stay out of that. Also sometimes after its had a freezing fit it sometimes goes super sluggish, argh. I think thats all the information i can think of atm, if anyone could help it would be massively appreciated. When it works it works fine runs games fine so I'm very reluctant to splash out on a new PC. Thanks in advance.
Windows 7 64bit
Intel core duo E6550 2.33GHZ
2gb ddr2 ram
ATI Radeon HD3850
600w psu
and one 233gb hdd
So whats happening is its randomly freezing every now and again frequently for a couple of minutes at a time whether I am playing games or just browsing the internet, although its more extreme when I'm (trying to)playing games usually leading to blue screen of death and at one point i couldn't even switch it back on. So i thought it was a hardware problem and I ran the BurnIn Test and it hasn't found any problems with my hardware EVEN when it froze during the test. I under-clocked my graphics card to increase the stability as i thought that might be the problem but it didn't help. One time it came up with a black bios like screen on start up saying "American Megatrends ect etc your cpu settings are running too high..." or something so i set them all to default(although they already were) but im not sure about playing around with clock speeds on the cpu so i tried to stay out of that. Also sometimes after its had a freezing fit it sometimes goes super sluggish, argh. I think thats all the information i can think of atm, if anyone could help it would be massively appreciated. When it works it works fine runs games fine so I'm very reluctant to splash out on a new PC. Thanks in advance.