Gaming Problem with an old dell dimension 5000

[The_Dragons_Mast]

BIOS issue anyone?

Well glad to read your desktop machine problem was fixed, but as for your laptop, you should look for the latest bios available. Most of them includes the vbios inside the main bios to fix some problems between the IGP and the motherboard/northbridge/whatever.

I used to experience those issues too on a AMD ATHLON II X2 with a Nforce chipset @igp 6150se, BSODs everywhere even with the latest manufacturer's southbridge/northbridge/hdd/vga drivers.

Then I simply upgraded my BIOS (this mobo has an IGP too..) and the problems had gone away ; )

I already did a quick search to see if this issue is common in his model & I got nothing similar so its hard to be the BIOS. Here is the BIOS page & as you can see in the change log nothing about his issue .

 

[pspunabletohack]

Before updating BIOS, you should always check for the changelogs of each BIOS revision. Many BIOS updates only add additional compatability for newer CPUs and don't actually fix any bugs. Unless a BIOS update explicitly says it fixes some bug or another, you should take the "don't fix what ain't broke" approach because flashing BIOS may brick your laptop permanently.

On acer's site for my laptop lasted avaible is BIOS Acer Improves PXE LAN performance. 1.34 5.4 MB 2011/02/08
but yeah a bios update is risky to brick the whole thing isn't it ??!!
and also it doesn't say anything about fixing the crash issue

AND !!! sorry my laptop hdd is a Hitachi one

Also if anyone has something else for me to test for fixing the thing post it please will test it out in the weekend and really the problem is there for a year now and i fucking hate it payed 700 Euro for the laptop back in 2009 :@

And also if anyone wants to test something on my laptop than we can use teamviewer

 

[The_Dragons_Mast]

The seagate tool works on all hdds but here is the Hitachi one if you want it http://www.hitachigs.../downloads/#DFT .

 

[pspunabletohack]

Notes:

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  Compatible only with x86-based processors.

And also will this test format my hard drive during the test or something like that ?

 

[The_Dragons_Mast]

Don't worry about that your processor should work fine ,and no it shouldn't delete anything in the regular tests . Just make sure to not do something stupid like a reformat & you should be fine .

 

[Coto]

Before updating BIOS, you should always check for the changelogs of each BIOS revision. Many BIOS updates only add additional compatability for newer CPUs and don't actually fix any bugs. Unless a BIOS update explicitly says it fixes some bug or another, you should take the "don't fix what ain't broke" approach because flashing BIOS may brick your laptop permanently.

Well, go figure, when I performed the BIOS update, it never said anything about fixing BSOD or VGA issues, but rather "fixes some problems". And 3 years later upon the updated BIOS it's plugged as a recording station without a single BSOD.. that I may remember.

So consider BIOS updating as your last resort

 

[pspunabletohack]

Before updating BIOS, you should always check for the changelogs of each BIOS revision. Many BIOS updates only add additional compatability for newer CPUs and don't actually fix any bugs. Unless a BIOS update explicitly says it fixes some bug or another, you should take the "don't fix what ain't broke" approach because flashing BIOS may brick your laptop permanently.

Well, go figure, when I performed the BIOS update, it never said anything about fixing BSOD or VGA issues, but rather "fixes some problems". And 3 years later upon the updated BIOS it's plugged as a recording station without a single BSOD.. that I may remember.

So consider BIOS updating as your last resort

And I looked at the bios and it seems to be it already has the lasted bios -.-*

 

[The_Dragons_Mast]

So your hdd is fine or you still didn't test .

 

[pspunabletohack]

So your hdd is fine or you still didn't test .

Nope will do that int the weekend ;p

 

[pspunabletohack]

Did some tests with the seagate tool and nope no errors so what else could it be now i did read a solution on a forum something you have to change after the instalation of the intel matrix storage driver in the registry so will test that and report it back (and sorry for the late reponse)

 

[pspunabletohack]

pff it FROZE AGAIN !!! the only thing I was doing was chatting and installing Avast AV so still not fixed help :'(