Post for random babbling, possibly with some sense, #6

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I have the same problem with my computer to. The one I had before worked just fine for four years, the new one which I bought this January is nothing but junk.

If I haven't found this site few months ago I would have completely given up on computers .

 

Keneth, does that computer of your's have an AMD procesor?

 

How the hell do you know that?!

 

AMD's procesors are not as stable as those of Intel. Athlon Thunderbirds especely (i know i didn't type that right). There are alot of articles on the net that say that. And my dad has an athlon, he has some problem's too (computer just resets for no aparent reason....) .

[ August 07, 2002, 20:24: Message edited by: Fallen Paladin ]

 

Well I wanted to buy Pentium IV but I didn't have that kinda money. Oh and I to have a Thunderbird but there aren't as many problems as I would have expected considering that my computer is on about 18 hours a day.

I noticed that you are to from Slovenia. It is nice to meet someone that lives in the same country especially a small one like ours.

Use spell-checker if you don't know how to spell a word.

 

I'm happily using an Athlon and my comp is as stable as a rock. When it crashes I always know why - and that's never because of my hardware since that, as I clearly know since I chose it myself, is excellent.

Weird and mysterious things can happen when you combine cheap bastard hardware (no one knows who is the father of these no-name motherboards/ graphics cards ... ) with a good CPU - that relatively often happens with "off-the-shelve" computers offered in compartment stores ... however, in my experience poor quality of hardware components is - with wrong installation - one of the most frequent reasons for mysterious computer troubles - but since AMD is written on the box it's easy to blame the CPU.

It's just like with cheap graphics cards - they may have plenty of RAM and a nice NVIDIA chipset but there is a reason why they are so cheap - and you see it when you use them on a complex game and then compare with the same chipset and the same amount of RAM on a quality variant of the same kind.

AMD produces excellent quality processors - and when your hardware is ok they run flawless. I really doubt if a CPU exchange would correct this funny reboot problem mentioned before.

Just my two cents - totally subjective since I don't know these articles on the web nor the comp you're talking about

[ August 07, 2002, 21:02: Message edited by: Ragusa ]

 

Ragusa,then how come my dad has problems with his procesor nomather what he does and i didnt have a problem since i got my Pentium(III)? He changed his motherboard once and did't help at all(both of these motherboard were had good quality. And he also bought a new procesor and it's still the same.

Keneth: right back at ya!

 

Hehehe...when I got my new computer, I took my old one out to a field and shot it several times with my dad's 16 gage shotgun! I've never had so much fun in my life! I would recomend it to anyone having computer problems....or format the hard drive and put Win2K pro on it....

 

Well, that may all be right but I still doubt it - obviously no-one has really been searching for the error, otherwise it would have been found and eliminated. Two motherboards were tried, two CPUs too - and the error remains? What makes you so sure it must have been the CPU? Actually the changes should have told you that exactly that is unlikely. How about the rest of the system? The possibilities for errors are about infinite The reason could be as well in the RAM, the soundcard, graphics card, power supply etc ...

And again, I think it might be rather something else but a defect CPU or - horrors (and kinda highly unlikey) - an AMD specific defect: "Caution, this CPU may produce some unexpected reboots!"

Unlikely, unlikely ....

 

You shot your computer! That is cruel!

 

Another thing, i read somewhere that NWN has problems with Thunderbird/window's XP combined.
I guess that's why i could't play NWN on my dad's computer becuse it keept freezing.
And my dad tried everything!

[ August 07, 2002, 21:33: Message edited by: Fallen Paladin ]

 

Using a crap-OS like Windows XP and then blaming the CPU for the crashes ....

[ August 07, 2002, 21:35: Message edited by: Ragusa ]

 

*sigh*
i don't have the will to argue with you anymore...
(but how come NWN works fine on my computer and i have XP too?)

[ August 07, 2002, 21:40: Message edited by: Fallen Paladin ]

 

Your're lucky.

 

And you're lucky your Athlon doesn't have any problems......
And i never had any problems with XP on my Pentium. But my dad did (and, as you know, he has a Thunderbird).

[ August 07, 2002, 22:16: Message edited by: Fallen Paladin ]

 

Maybe happy, but not lucky. My comp is good because I composed it to be good - with carefully chosen components, and not despite its components

[ August 07, 2002, 22:19: Message edited by: Ragusa ]

 

Would you believe that we just set a record for the most people on the forums at one time in SP history?

 

yeah, like 40 people.
Another record for Sorcerer's place!
long live SP!

 

If 40 was the record I just saw about 70!

[ August 07, 2002, 23:04: Message edited by: Abyssal Knight ]

 

Have you been drinking and seeing double now?

Just kidding .