My dad just bought a new processor, motherboard, and some extra ram for our computer for Christmas. He installed everything and at first, it worked great. Our games were faster and smoother and everything was fine. But about a day later, things started to go wrong. I first noticed something while I was playing my game, Everquest. The computer just started making clicking noises whenever I hit the keys. When I shut the game down and tried to do something, a window popped up and said that system resources were dangerously low. Though, when one checks the memory, only about 70% is being used.
Now, all games we run are choppy, as in start and stop movements. It's not smooth at all. If I'm playing a game, after a while, the computer starts making clicking noises. Then, a while after that, everything freezes. If my dad is browsing the net, he eventually gets a system resources are low message and has to restart. After the computer is restarted, it's fine again for a while. I'm not very good with the inner workings of the computer, so I can only report the suspicions of my dad and friends. My dad thinks that either the motherboard or the ram is bad. He suspects the motherboard. My friend thinks that the hard drive needs to be reformatted, as we didn't reformat it when we added the new parts.
Also, I tried to download one of those cpu monitoring programs. I couldn't find one that would tell me what programs were using up the memory, but the one I did download showed how much of the cpu, physical memory, and virtual memory was being used. The CPU was at 100% and the virtual memory at 0%. But the physical memory started at about 70% when I started the computer and slowly kept rising after I'd been on for a little while.
Oh, and we have an Intel-Celeron 1 GHz processor, a NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 M64 video card, 128 MB of ram (though the same problems occurred when it had 512 MB), a 22.5 GB hard drive, and running Windows 98.
Both I and my dad are quite stumped. Is there anyone who can help?
Now, all games we run are choppy, as in start and stop movements. It's not smooth at all. If I'm playing a game, after a while, the computer starts making clicking noises. Then, a while after that, everything freezes. If my dad is browsing the net, he eventually gets a system resources are low message and has to restart. After the computer is restarted, it's fine again for a while. I'm not very good with the inner workings of the computer, so I can only report the suspicions of my dad and friends. My dad thinks that either the motherboard or the ram is bad. He suspects the motherboard. My friend thinks that the hard drive needs to be reformatted, as we didn't reformat it when we added the new parts.
Also, I tried to download one of those cpu monitoring programs. I couldn't find one that would tell me what programs were using up the memory, but the one I did download showed how much of the cpu, physical memory, and virtual memory was being used. The CPU was at 100% and the virtual memory at 0%. But the physical memory started at about 70% when I started the computer and slowly kept rising after I'd been on for a little while.
Oh, and we have an Intel-Celeron 1 GHz processor, a NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 M64 video card, 128 MB of ram (though the same problems occurred when it had 512 MB), a 22.5 GB hard drive, and running Windows 98.
Both I and my dad are quite stumped. Is there anyone who can help?