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Asparval
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26 Feb 2005, 11:04 am

I have a Compaq Presario 700 that is about to go in the bin unless someone can help.

It has always been a bit slow and freezes occasionally but lately the problem has got so bad that it freezes on start up most times.

If it does start it soon freezes when I try to do anything on it that needs more than the bare minimum processing power.

I have tried:

*the obvious virus & adware checks

*restoring to factory settings

*updating every driver I can

*XP service pack 2

*doubling the RAM (everything is much faster but the freezing problem remains)

I searched the internet for information and from what I gather the Presario 700 has a basic design fault which makes this prone to happen.

If anyone has any ideas of things I can try please post them before I start using the thing as a square frisbee!! !



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26 Feb 2005, 12:37 pm

Asparval wrote:
I have a Compaq Presario 700 that is about to go in the bin unless someone can help.

It has always been a bit slow and freezes occasionally but lately the problem has got so bad that it freezes on start up most times.

If it does start it soon freezes when I try to do anything on it that needs more than the bare minimum processing power.

I have tried:

*the obvious virus & adware checks

*restoring to factory settings

*updating every driver I can

*XP service pack 2

*doubling the RAM (everything is much faster but the freezing problem remains)

I searched the internet for information and from what I gather the Presario 700 has a basic design fault which makes this prone to happen.

If anyone has any ideas of things I can try please post them before I start using the thing as a square frisbee!! !

have you tried underclocking it?


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26 Feb 2005, 1:18 pm

That sounds interesting.

How do I do that?



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26 Feb 2005, 1:39 pm

Asparval wrote:
That sounds interesting.

How do I do that?

It depends on your mobo. I assume that the bug you mentioned earlier was actually a problem with the processor. If you underclock the processor, you should be able to keep the chip's temperature down which will increase stability.


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