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I'm giving up on my 6 yr. old computer and buying a new one. Which would be faster, 500GB Data Security RAID1 or 1TB Performance RAID 0?

PC going to sleep I can't do that until it wakes up again. When I turn it on, sometimes it goes to sleep right away. Sometimes it will start windows xp right away. Right now it doesn't want to run. Until then can anyone tell me about how to find the download and install for the speakers? Please see my last post. Thanks for the help.

PC going to sleep Sorry it took me so long to get back here. I couldn't get the computer back on to try the scans you suggested. So finally I did all of the above suggestions, and still it comes on sometimes and goes to sleep sometimes. It is so undependable that I had to borrow another computer to complete the task I was doing. I am on the borrowed computer now. Any othe ideas? Also the computer I am on now does not recognize my audio system and speakers. They are Altec Lansing. I don't have an install and set-up disk for them. I believe it is on one of the originally loaded set-up disks. How can I tell which one it would be on? What will happen if I put the disks in the computer now? Will it load everything? Will it give me an option to choose what I want to reload? Or will it reinstall everything? So many questions...so little time. Thanks for your help.

Sometimes I see a white flashing curser in the top left hand corner, then the white writing on the black screen an then the windows page comes on. Other times I get a small square in the middle of the screen that says "going to sleep" in yellow letters and the monitor light changes to yellow and then the computer power button light changes to yellow also and I have to push the power button to turn it off, nothing else will work. Nothing is loose in the computer. sometimes when I am using the computer and everything seems to be ok, it suddenly freezes. Only the power button will shut it down, there is no reaction to mouse, keyboard, or anything else. This is so frustrating. It is not dependable. Diagnosing the problem is harder than fixing it.

I'm running McAfee Virus Protection Suite. I did the chkdsk and it seemed to be OK. I found no viruses, no spys, no bad sectors, found all of the hardware, although the DVD RW does not seem to recognize any disks in the drive when I put them in. I got a diagnostic testing disk from HP an ran it. Nothing seemed to be wrong until I did the long test (says it could take up to 2 hrs) it froze after about 20 minutes. I had to power off and didn't try it again. Since nothing came up that said "your hard drive is going" or "Your video card needs to be replaced" it didn't help me much. I don't understand what all of the computer jargon is well enough to dicipher the outcome with a diagnosis. Any other ideas? Should I maybe reformat the hard drive?

New symptoms OK, last night I was doing some work on the PC (after it finally loaded up) and all of the sudden it made this weird noise (it came from the speakers) like riding on a flat or like bikes would make with the baseball cards in the spokes. Then the screen froze, and that was the end of the computer for the night. I had to hit the power button to shut it down. I waited 15 min. an tried to boot it up but no go. I unplugged the speaker system and I waited another 30 min. and nothing. This am, nothing. Tonight, well as you can see - it's up and running, for now. Does this help anyone get any ideas of what could be going wrong with my PC? I can't stand this undependable state of use. The PC is about 4 yrs. old and has lots of memory and always was fast. There is still a lot of unused space on my hard drive. Please help!:confused:

Still need help I actually took the PC apart and and used canned air to clean out the entire PC. All of the fans are working and the samll fan that I have attached the side of my desk facing the PC is on, so it should not get hot enough to shut down. Could this be a sign of something going wrong...say the video card or the hard drive? How would I be able to tell if it is and what it would be? Is there some way to run a test on the PC to find out? Thanks for your ideas and help. You guys and gals are the greatest! ;)

Still need help I've made sure that the power supply was as it should be, I've defragged, and ran the ckdsk scan. I am running McAfee complete virus protection suite. I also ran spybot S&D. I was told to reseat the video card, which I did and it worked fine for about 3 days. It is just so undependable. Sometimes the computer comes on fine, other times it goes to sleep or just stops running in the middle of (of course) my reports for work. Any other ideas? Thanks for the help.:(

PC going to sleep I've checked for viruses, spybots, defragmented and ran PC Dr. I will try the Chkdsk /r. Thank you. Do you think it could be my video card or hard drive going bad?:confused:

I'm having a problem with my PC loading. I have an HP a750y and run Win XP. I have plenty of memory. I have done all of the scans and do not get errors. My screen simply freezes in the middle of a program (any program) and then goes to sleep. I can not wake it up! I've tried everything. I have to hit the power button to turn it off. A while later I turn it back on and sometimes it loads fine, other times it just shows the message "going to sleep" and I'm back to square 1. I've reseated the video card, switched out the mouse, monitor and keyboard, changed the cables and electrical cords and boxes. Any ideas? :confused: