PC Strange Symptoms

[dongie]

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Day 1 - Lost monitor display while playing simple game, reboot resulted in CMOS checksum error. Another reboot says memory error. Removed 1 stick (I have 2) and rebooted ok. Put back removed memory stick, rebooted ok again

Day 2 - No boot, no monitor display. Reseated graphics card, shutdown and reboot ok

Day 3 - Playing Civ4, cursor sticks to side of screen, game exited using keyboard. Reboot produced cursor which moves at first then gets stuck to side of screen again. Shut down and reboot, ok napod.

Specs: Athlon XP-M 2400, Sapphire 9600 Pro, 2x256MB Kingston value ram, Maxtor 80Gb HDD

Any suggestions please?

[EarlZ]

When you ask for hardware troubleshooting please include the COMPLETE system specs.
Inlude the Idle and load temps you get
PSU wattage and voltage rails readout when in operation
Driver versions

[baruk]

try to check contacts of ur ram!! if syntoms persist!!!! basin na corrupt na ang imong os!!!....try to check ur os muna!!! ifok deffective na imong board bro!!!

[doomsweek]

check you RAMs kuno. try this http://www.memtest86.com/

[dongie]

Thanks for the reply guys, really appreciate them. PC passed overnight memtest. HD checks out well. File system check is ok. Will try 3DMark03 tonight. Am suspecting maybe corrupted drivers but don't know how to check or even pinpoint which one. Device drivers in My Computer properties do not indicate problems. How do I check for OS corruption? @EarlZ cpu idle 43C load 47C PSU Enermax 460W Voltage rails 12.22, 4.92, 3.36

[minimouse]

do u have an internal modem? sometimes this type of modem will bring headache to pc users. but mostly of us are unaware of this. I have experienced it many times. But im not a gamer so suggestion lang. Betterstill, use PASSMARK software. Good luck.

[Jpacs29]

@minimouse unsa nay passmark bro mao ba ni cya new version sa QAplus

[zer0Cool]

dle cguro compatible ang imo mga ram sa imo mobo bai

[Visual C#]

Motherboard make and chipset? Tried using swapping your computer parts with something else (your memory sticks on a different motherboard, etc.).? Overheating graphics card? Tried using a different graphics card? Removed devices in the PCI bus? Tried resetting the BIOS, or upgrade to the latest BIOS version? Checked for faulty IDE/SATA cables? Tried reformatting your OS, start from scratch?

[dongie]

@Viktor,its an Asus A7N8X Deluxe v2 with Ultra400 chipset. Will try your suggestions but afraid might not be able to do all as I don,t have spares. Thanks for the help.

@zer0Cool, 3 years naman ni ako RAM on same motherboard as also passed a memtest lately. Salamat anyway