Well, apart from the non-existing RAID unit (I don't use RAID anyway) there is this WinXP Promise FastTrak 378 (tm) controller that's marked with an exclamation mark. Apparently, Promise tecnology specialize in SATA-RAID units, so that collision has supposedly been around for a while. Anyway, I couldn't find an update for FT 378 on their homepage.

Anyway, before my OS started it did an inconsistence check on one of my drivers (don't know which one). It seemed to take a while so I decided to do some reading while waiting so I didn't notice the result either. But would this indicate that one of my drivers aren't in the best of health? IIRC I found some error on one of them back when all this started...

Edit: Well, I tried out Warcraft 3 to see if the problems were still there. This usually means playing some single player map for a few minutes, and if the game don't crash it works fine (well, usually it does it's standard one minute freeze and then work normally). It didn't freeze during the first game, so I presumed to playing a Battle.Net game to see if it was gone for got. It froze during the animation to enter battle.net. laugh After that my mouse started working weirdly, it didn't float properly, instead it moved in jerks (IE my mouse had started lagging). Alt+tabbing proved that it seemed to work properly in windows. So, in order to see how long my computer would last I started playing a single player map again (a Tower Defence, since those can take a while). Before I'd chosen all the setting (which takes under one minute) my computer went bananas. First half the screen got covered in white and gray suqares. When I tried to alt+tab (which usually makes it work normally after a minute) all colours went crazy. I tried alt+tabbing again, at which point my computer recided to doing nothing but flash a black screen once every third second. I could move the mouse but nothing else.

I don't know if I've mentioned it, but I've had simillar problems before with WC3. The difference was that it kept working before, the only problem was some weird glitches. For instance, yellow squares under units and the portraits of units being covered by white squares. All this stopped and went back to normal when I opened Winamp...

Is it time to get a new computer prehaps? laugh

Übereil


Last edited by Ubereil; 19/05/08 02:07 PM.
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