supermosiman

It's an 'RM'...

It's a pc, the ethernet is built in to the motherboard....I see there is a code sticker on the back of the pc, but it was not asked for during the reformat.

No I haven't, and I guess that's the problem....I have no clue how to, and have no software for the ethernet port. What do you mean by 'activated xp'? Thanks for your help!

Reformatted my son's pc as it was incredibly slow, with system restore disc, windows xp. The ethernet connection is 'live' in the back of the pc, green led lit, and the modem sees the computer. I have been to 'connections' in internet tools, selected 'automatically detect settings' in LAN settings, but nothing happens and nothing changes when I click ok. I'm sure I'm only a couple of mouse clicks away, I just don't know what they are....

Well I grabbed a new card from ebay, but the issue stayed. Sometimes the PC will run all day (not gaming/videos) sometimes it shuts off without being touched. Any other ideas, or am I in the market for a new pc?

No other video output. It just went black on me this afternoon during normal use so I'm kind of assuming the graphics card is on the way out. No biggie, there are a gazillion for sale on ebay-I just haven't a clue what I'm looking for....should I start a new thread asking that question?

Hi all I did a clean of all the bits and fans etc. I have two temps from Speccy-Motherboard and Hard drive. Motherboard doesn't change-steady at 22c, Hard drive starts at 32c but has cut out a couple of times today at 38c and just now (not playing anything, just general use) at 41c. How is that for normal, or not? Cheers

Thanks Ken I think you're right-I thought along those lines myself, removed the card and gave it a good clean-after which it worked fine for about 15 minutes, then did the same. Is it recoverable or should I just look for another card? Cheers

Hi all, newbie here with what (to me) is a bizarre problem. I have an 'Infinity' PC with a Pentium 4 3.2 GHz processor and 1GHz RAM and an ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro AGP graphics card. I have had the PC for quite a while now, a couple of years probably-and it was second hand, so it's quite old.... And it has been absolutely fine, til maybe 6 weeks ago. It is perfect, will run all day, surf the net, watch videos, youtube, whatever. Until you try and play games on it. If I play Flightsim or something, it will function perfectly well, for about 5 minutes, then it either freezes momentarily, or goes straight to, a black screen. The mouse (USB) switches off, the screen goes to standby, but the PC keeps running. The only option is to hold the on/off switch to shut the PC down. And after it does shut down, the keyboard stays live.... This also happens if the kids are playing online games... I thought it might be a virus, so last week I re-formatted the thing. And it's just the same. Any ideas most welcome. Thanks in advance!