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Hellcat · 01-06-06, 09:05 AM

No one likes to hear this suggestion, but....

1) When is the last time you formatted your system? Seems that most of my friend's/family's computer woes are usually from a combination of poor maintenance (ie total lack of defrag/virus scans/firewalls/spyware/adware checkers etc...) and going where they should'nt on the net :d

2) After a clean install of your core windows componets it's much easier to troubleshoot driver issues as you can be certain that you are using the latest and the greatest with none of that fluff that comes with the OEM CD's.

3) Which Mobo do you have? The latest nForce boards are picky about BIOS updates and the like when you don't update the chipset drivers.

cheers,

01-06-06, 09:05 AM	#4
Hellcat Ensign Join Date: May 2004 Location: Ontario, Canada Posts: 224 Downloads: 7 Uploads: 0	No one likes to hear this suggestion, but.... 1) When is the last time you formatted your system? Seems that most of my friend's/family's computer woes are usually from a combination of poor maintenance (ie total lack of defrag/virus scans/firewalls/spyware/adware checkers etc...) and going where they should'nt on the net :d 2) After a clean install of your core windows componets it's much easier to troubleshoot driver issues as you can be certain that you are using the latest and the greatest with none of that fluff that comes with the OEM CD's. 3) Which Mobo do you have? The latest nForce boards are picky about BIOS updates and the like when you don't update the chipset drivers. cheers, __________________ "readiness is only accomplished when the need for it is over"