Originally Posted by Jim Galbally
Kia,
i've been a "geek" since i was 5 years old, and a qualified MS professional, and have been working with windows systems my entire woking life, so i feel i'm qualified to comment.
depends how old you are now though
I'm a life long geek
long before windows was dreamt of lol
BSOD is not a hardware issue
it depends entirely on the message you get, that particular message is normally caused by a hardware issue. theyre just more commonly software issues because people f**k their home PCs up and corrupt vital windows diles and get BSOD crashes more often
mmmm I'll compromise on that one - hard ware failure ususlly results in failure to boot period rather than a BSOD though.
CPU settings aren't going to be the problem if the computer has been running fine
I disagree 100%, CPUs get HOT, they also get hotter than normal if they are running at different clock speeds and multipliers than their standard settings. Incorrect CPU clock settings are a COMMON cause of crashes among the amateur PC DIYer
I don't think he's taxing that pc that much in all honesty - if he too was a geek and was hammering daily or a serious online gamer then maybe but for the joe average who surfs the net a bit - the CPU being overclocked isn't really even going to be noticed.
Camera won't be an issue either it will use minimal resources
The Ammount of CPU time and Memory resources will not be relevant in crash situations. Computers can quite happily cope with high resource usage, whats the CANT cope with is badly coded or currupt drivers etc. which cause memory leaks, crashes, etc. etc. it could be a tiny 1K driver for a mouse for all it matters to its relevance to crashing...
True true one reason for always keeping things up to date as possible but in this instance I think it unlikely (gut feeling) unless it is an incompatibility issue with something else he's got on there.
NORTON is a resource hog - it is well known that it slows computers to the brink of death, has poor effect and isn't worth the space in which I wrote this.
i agree it is resource hungry! i wont use it anymore. however its unlikely thats its causing the issues (unless it's corrupted some hook dll or similar)
I've solved quite a few BSOD's and other PC related issues purely by removing all traces of Norton.
It has some major issues and memory leaks and isn't really the best for it's purpose. Again yes you can do worse than having Norton and honestly you're better to have that than nothing but with the quality of free software (legally free software) then you can also do much better.
From the sounds of it you'd love our "office" hahaha
home lan with dmz cisco 3600series external, 2600 series internal.
WAMP http server in dmz, mail server under construction, linux server.
Full sun sparc station, Bay stack, hub and switch, various bt equipment.
3800 series cisco router sat doing nothing for time being.
