Computer problems...
Ok, so I had a nice fatal error this past friday that forced a full reinstall of my hard drive, but to have it go all wonky on me once kinda guarantees it will happen again. So, with the mind to halt future problems, I bought a new hard drive and installed it.
Trouble was, no backups anymore, "they" partition your drive to use that as the backup. So I reinstalled the old drive, newly formatted, went back to the store to get some DVDs to burn the back-up to, and then reinstalled the new hard drive and set to work on getting the disks to partition the drive and install the recovery portion. So now that is done.
But now, my computer will randomly stall out during games, most notably when there is a lot of action on screen, although sometimes at inexplicable times. Microsoft has suggested it is one of two problems, either the driver for my video card is out of date and needs to be updated, or I should go to the advanced troubleshooting of my display and take the 3D acceleration down to none.
Driver is up and loaded, still having problems. NVidia does not want me to turn it down to None, so I got it turned down as low as NVidia will let me. The word from Julia's posts is that it might be the power supply, RAM, or the motherboard. I suppose my question is this: I do not know how to do this power supply swap, so where can I find out how to do this and when should I give up trying to fix this problem and either have a professional help me (costs a lot and takes forever) or do I just need to stop spending so much money and buy a new frickin tower? At this point it has only been about $125 between DVDs and the hard drive. Looks like a store bought power supply is between $80 and $130. Any suggestions?
Thanks, in advance.
Trouble was, no backups anymore, "they" partition your drive to use that as the backup. So I reinstalled the old drive, newly formatted, went back to the store to get some DVDs to burn the back-up to, and then reinstalled the new hard drive and set to work on getting the disks to partition the drive and install the recovery portion. So now that is done.
But now, my computer will randomly stall out during games, most notably when there is a lot of action on screen, although sometimes at inexplicable times. Microsoft has suggested it is one of two problems, either the driver for my video card is out of date and needs to be updated, or I should go to the advanced troubleshooting of my display and take the 3D acceleration down to none.
Driver is up and loaded, still having problems. NVidia does not want me to turn it down to None, so I got it turned down as low as NVidia will let me. The word from Julia's posts is that it might be the power supply, RAM, or the motherboard. I suppose my question is this: I do not know how to do this power supply swap, so where can I find out how to do this and when should I give up trying to fix this problem and either have a professional help me (costs a lot and takes forever) or do I just need to stop spending so much money and buy a new frickin tower? At this point it has only been about $125 between DVDs and the hard drive. Looks like a store bought power supply is between $80 and $130. Any suggestions?
Thanks, in advance.