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oOo sam lee oOo

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ive been having glitches in my computer ever since i built it sometime this march or somewhere around there. like, its fine, it freezes for a second, goes, freezes, and goes again, and its annoying when listening to music, watching movies, or playing games. nothing i do ever fixes it.

i reformatted, just in case it was a virus, but it was still glitchy, and some ppl said to scan w/ adaware and spybot search and destroy, + defrag, and do disc cleanup. i did all that, and i didn't work. so i started thinking it might be a scratched hard drive, because it fell on its side in the car once. I got my sister the same hard drive, and her's isn't glitchy, so that made me think it was my hd even more. but then, i had to get a new hd, becuase my old one didn't work, and i still have the glitches.

now i think it might be either the ram, or the motherboard. which one is most likely the problem?
 
Well I had the same thing happen once and it was the hard drive that would make everything sputter like that. If you say you got a new hard drive and it still does it, I would check your IDE cable. Swap it out with a new one. If that doesnt fix it, I would check your RAM.
 
i didnt really understand the directions, so please help me.

i have 512 mbs on this computer, and im running windows xp. does that mean,if i close all open windows, i have to test 448 mbs? or is it somethin else
 
what kind of ram is it. and get memtest or prime95 and run it. if it fails less then 1 hour then its ram.
 
get memtest. It will make a bootable floppy disk, and you can run a memory test off of it. It will test all of your memory and tell you if there are any bad chips.
 
oOo sam lee oOo said:
i have 512 mb corsair pc3200 ddr
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I would guess ram also.. but it's corsair so if it is you are unlucky heh. Memtest you can find in the FAQ I believe.. it's a program that runs a thorough memory test.. if you pass you should get no errors.
 
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