- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Ok, I am now having very annoying computer problems. I at first thought it was an incident with Battlefield 2, but I am now convinced it's a hardware problem. I was just playing UT2004, and in the past weeks, it was freezing a lot and dumping me back to the desktop. I installed Rainbow Six covert ops (Yeah I know I'm behind I should get counter strike...) and after about 20 mins my computer up and restarts! Right in the middle of a game!!! I log in, it gets to the desktop, and just as it gets to the desktop, it restarts again! I finally reset the thing, and it starts normally. I come back to the desktop and it says that the "system has recovered from a serious error". I look at it more closely, instead of just clicking ok. It says it was caused by a hardware device. At this point, here be my computer specs 'cause I figure you'd want them
CPU: 2.09 GHz AMD Sempron
Ram: 1 gig
Video Card: ATI Radeon 9550
Soundcard: Realtek AC97 Audio
Now awhile back someone told me ATI cards are real buggy, so I think that might be the problem. But I don't want to fix it before I'm sure that that's the problem. Me fixing or replacing the innards of a computer is the same as an ape disarming a nuke. Clueless. I would have to call my uncle the computer wiz and have him explain to me what to do, but he is a very busy person right now. So can someone please confirm or deny my suspicions that it's the video card that is giving me grief? Or is it the hard drive? Help!