What is your operating system? First, you must be 100% sure about your software. That means that you must have a clean Windows installation, latest drivers and if possible antivirus disabled. If the problem insists and youhave an onboard sound card I suggest you get a cheap Sound Blaster PCI sound card, they are far better than the onboard ones- you get less CPU Usage and no sound chopping problems.
Well you have guessed wrong... I have tried all Microsoft's O/S... from DOS to Windows 7. Windows 7 is based on the Vista's Kernel but its improved, that could not be done with the release of a service pack. Same requirements but different architecture. That's why Vista was a failure and 7 was a success.
Omg... "Just as good as Win7". That's a blasphemy, because they have the same looks and interface they are the same? It just another OS failure from Microsoft. We have seen it in the past, its like comparing Windows Millenium with Windows 2000.
Is this a new HDD, are you sure its working? The IDE channel your hard drive is hooked up, does it have any other device on it? (Like a DVD/CD device). If so you must set the jumpers correctly. Also check the BIOS options, your IDE channel option might be set to "disabled".
Give us more details of what you are trying to do. What do you mean by "OS Drive", you said it's got fried right? You are trying to connect the faulty HDD to your PC? Also keep in mind that old motherboards do not list SATA drives to the HDD List in BIOS.
I suggest you get rid of Vista ASAP. Did you try a clean installation of Windows? Maybe its not a hardware but a software problem. But if that's not possible I suggest your run a memtest first. I see two different types of manufacturers on your computer config, always avoid that. If you are uncertain for your memory, try with one module at a time. I also can see you have an onboard graphics card. Try borrowing an old VGA from a friend and see if you are having the same problems. Try these solutions first and give us a feedback.
8800 GTS is a card with lots of power appetite. Especially in amperes. Your system is running near the edge of that. 8800 power requirements are 26 to 28 amperes of 12Volts (depends on the model). You have a total of 29 but you have other components that also draw power from your PSU. But all that is just theory, I have seen 400W and 350W PSU run demanding systems perfectly. So in order to check if this is a PSU problem I suggest you do the following: - Disconnect all DVD/CD Rom and extra hard disks from the power (if applicable) - Remove all the extra PCI Cards -disable onboard extras (firewire, LAN, audio etc) just keep the nessesary in order to play the game and check if you are having the same problems. If everything runs normally then you should go for a bigger PSU. I also suggest you buy a voltage regulator (like APC) in order to be 100% certain that this is not a problem from the current of the public network. If you do not get any successful results I suggest you go for plan B. Plan B: Make a BIOS Upgrade, check the RAM with a memtest program. If possible, make clean installations of Windows and programs. Give us a feedback on that. Good Luck
I suggest you buy a desktop for gaming unless you have serious reasons and needs... I also do not like predictions. Nobody (and I mean it) can predict the future.. 2-3 years is a long prognosis. Do not forget 1 human year is 8 years of technological advance. You cannot beat evolution, every month we see something new. So I am going to reply for NOW (that means the present) - yes you can run games like crysis in high detail. With the same amount of money you can buy a much better desktop, which you can also upgrade the graphics card in 2 years in order to have a descend game machine.
You cannot upgrade the memory in laptop graphics card. Sounds like you have 256 dedicated from your VGA & 256 from your computer RAM, thats why Dxdiag detects a total of 512. But if you want to be 100% sure, run the CPU-Z or PC Wizard 2009 (1.911) , they are both free,in order to see more information about your PC configuration, just google them. Are you sure it is "dedicated"? Maybe you can configure from the BIOS the amount of physical RAM to be allocated in order of your video ram to be increased.
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