Two New Problems

[Neptune24]

Hi Guys, yet more problems, well more annoying little bugs than problems. Anyway the first is that my computer spends about 5 minutes or so on the following screen:


This isn't mine just an example (If you want to see mine you will have to me how to get it as I haven't a clue.)

And I am having some problems with the windows "RUNDLL32" file.
I open Neverwinter Nights and have to wait a minute for it to do nothing and then open it again. This hasn't always been the case only recently it has started doing both of these.

I have poked about a bit and tried to work out why these are happening but have come up blank.

Thanks for any help.

Neptune24

[Velo:Sity]

Any new devices you've added recently?

[Neptune24]

Nope. Nothing new on the system since this started happening.

[Major_A]

Give this a try.
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/15 ... ecker.html

I've had a board that will sit at the BIOS screen for a good minute before it boots through the tests. Unplug the Radeon video card and put in an nVidia card and it's instant. Dunno. Point is some boards are just flaky.

[Neptune24]

Not yet tried the link.

Is a flaky motherboard the only reason then.

[Major_A]

Could possibly be a piece of bad hardware that the POST (Power On Self Test) is struggling to get through. Might want to open your case and take a look inside. I'd look for any bulging capacitors.

Example:
http://www.badcaps.net/images/caps/kt7/kt3.html

[Neptune24]

Ok I shall have a look for any dodgy capacitors and do the whole remove all non essensial hardware and put them back in one by one. I will update when I have done this.

[kenc51]

I'd run it through a few passes of memtest86+

Also, try bumping up the ram voltage a notch

[Neptune24]

At the mo I am working on updating all the drivers for everything and shall see what happens after I am finished with this long and tedious task.

[Neptune24]

Right I have checked all of the drivers and other than the graphics card, they were up to date and I have checked all of the capacitors (not fun and took too long) they all seem healthy.

However while checking the capacitors I noticed that it was a bit dusty in there. Can I use a paint brush to clean the boards and fans and everything. Or will this fry something??

Neptune24

[Major_A]

Might be easier to go grab a can of compressed air. As long as you turn the power off and use the brush it will be fine.