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Redwolf · 01-09-2004, 12:09 PM

My neighbor and friend has a nice computer that needs a little...assistance.

Basically it has a variety of problems including:

1) The fonts on dialog boxes, icons, and the Start menu screw up alot (look corrupted, but the fonts themselves ar okay).

2) It's not very stable, as when I've been over there hsi computer always crashes at some point

and

3) Just recently he got a Radeon 9600. Now Warcraft III and CnC; Generals don't work for him. Strange thing is, Final Fantasy 11 (opps, I meant XI) runs perfectly on his machine, as does Counterstrike. Changing the resolution in Warcraft III and some of the options don't help, as his machine crashes about 30-40 seconds into running the game.

His specs:

AMD 1.4GHz Athlon (heat is not a problem with it)
Asus A7A266 motherboard (ALi Magick 1 chipset)
Radeon 9600 (tested with both Omega Drivers and ATI's latest drivers to no avail)
SB Live Value
Windows 98SE
1 DVD drive and 1 CD Burner
1 40Gb Hard Drive
Cable Internet (so we aren't limited by what we can dl)
Forgot PS wattage, but it's adequate

I'm really stumped at this point, and really want to help him out. I get the feeling it's something messed up about Windows and told him I can help him do a reformat tomorrow. But here's the strage thing. We tried reformatting the machine a few months ago to fix the stupid font problem...and it didn't fix it. A perfectly clean install of Win98 and hsi fonts are still messed up (and this with a Radeon 8500).

I haven't run memtest yet, but I told him he might have to run it at some point. He has the disk, so if you guys suspect the RAM I can have him run it overnight. I'm starting to suspect it myself.

01-09-2004, 12:09 PM	#1 (permalink)
Redwolf Registered User Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: NC in the US Posts: 3,732	See today's most popular deals at » Help with a firend's machine needed My neighbor and friend has a nice computer that needs a little...assistance. Basically it has a variety of problems including: 1) The fonts on dialog boxes, icons, and the Start menu screw up alot (look corrupted, but the fonts themselves ar okay). 2) It's not very stable, as when I've been over there hsi computer always crashes at some point and 3) Just recently he got a Radeon 9600. Now Warcraft III and CnC; Generals don't work for him. Strange thing is, Final Fantasy 11 (opps, I meant XI) runs perfectly on his machine, as does Counterstrike. Changing the resolution in Warcraft III and some of the options don't help, as his machine crashes about 30-40 seconds into running the game. His specs: AMD 1.4GHz Athlon (heat is not a problem with it) Asus A7A266 motherboard (ALi Magick 1 chipset) Radeon 9600 (tested with both Omega Drivers and ATI's latest drivers to no avail) SB Live Value Windows 98SE 1 DVD drive and 1 CD Burner 1 40Gb Hard Drive Cable Internet (so we aren't limited by what we can dl) Forgot PS wattage, but it's adequate I'm really stumped at this point, and really want to help him out. I get the feeling it's something messed up about Windows and told him I can help him do a reformat tomorrow. But here's the strage thing. We tried reformatting the machine a few months ago to fix the stupid font problem...and it didn't fix it. A perfectly clean install of Win98 and hsi fonts are still messed up (and this with a Radeon 8500). I haven't run memtest yet, but I told him he might have to run it at some point. He has the disk, so if you guys suspect the RAM I can have him run it overnight. I'm starting to suspect it myself.