Need Some Advice

[evil cabbage 9]

Hello all, just asking for some advice.

 

I got my current PC nearly a few years ago. About 8 months after I got it, my PC would keep having constant every 3 second stuff-ups during games and windows aero where the whole PC would freeze, the screen would go blank for a second and then it would reappear again, and I would get the following message: Display Driver "nvrdmmn" has stopped responding and has recovered successfully. Now, it got taken to the tech support people atc Harvey Norman and it was a problem with my graphics card, which had become corrupted. It had to be sent off to get a new card so I couldn't use it for about 2 months. Anyway, luckily I have extended warranty, but something I found perculiar was the fact that it failed pretty much just after the regular warranty ran out. I thought it was just a coincidence, but I got my PC back about 8 months ago and guess what-now, eight months later, here we go again with the same problem. I still have warranty, so I could go and get it fixed again (at no charge), but it seems like I am going to get the same problem year after year.... and eventually, the extended warranty will run out

 

So:

-Should I buy a new PC?

-or should I hold out with my current one?

I have attached a poll.

 

By the way, is it me, or are these PCs from Harvey Norman designed to fail?

 

Also, my graphics card is a NVidia GeForce and I never overclock my graphics card, I don't even play high-def games that much.

[Polraudio 122]

Looking through the Harvey Norman site, dont even look like they are a good place to buy. I wouldn't go there.

You ever consider a cheep very good gaming laptop?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834220639

Thats what im getting next month.

Did months worth of research on it. It can run 95% of today's games on max graphics.

Specs are awesome.

Specs under spoiler

 

Model

Brand ASUS

Series G Series

Model G51Vx-X3A

General

Operating System Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit

CPU Type Intel Core 2 Duo P8700 2.53G

Screen 15.6"

Memory Size 4GB DDR2

Hard Disk 320GB

Optical Drive DVD Super Multi

Graphics Card NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M

Video Memory 1GB VRAM DDR3

Card slot 1 x Express Card

Dimensions 14.6" x 10.3" x 1.3-1.6"

Weight 7.26 lbs.

Other Features 30days Zero Bright Dot LCD

CPU

CPU Type Intel Core 2 Duo

CPU Speed P8700(2.53GHz)

CPU FSB 1066MHz

CPU L2 Cache 3MB

Display

Screen Size 15.6"

Wide Screen Support Yes

Resolution 1920 x 1080(FULL HD)

Operating Systems

Operating System Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit

Graphics

GPU/VPU NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M

Video Memory 1GB VRAM DDR3

Graphic Type Dedicated Card

Hard Drive

HDD 320GB

HDD RPM 7200rpm

Memory

Memory 4GB

Memory Type 200-Pin DDR2 SO-DIMM

Memory Slot (Total) 2

Max Memory Supported 4GB

Optical Drive

Optical Drive Type DVD Super Multi

Optical Drive Interface Integrated

Communications

LAN 10/100/1000Mbps

WLAN 802.11 bgn

Bluetooth Yes

Ports

Card Slot 1 x Express Card

USB 4

IEEE 1394 1

Video Port 1 x VGA, 1 x HDMI

Other port 1 x E-SATA

Audio Ports Yes

Audio

Audio Integrated Sound card

Speaker Internal Speakers

Input Device

Touchpad Yes

Keyboard Standard

Supplemental Drive

Card Reader 8-in-1

Webcam 2.0MP

Power

Battery 6-cell lithium ion

Physical spec

Dimensions 14.6" x 10.3" x 1.3-1.6"

Weight 7.26 lbs.

Manufacturer Warranty

Accidental Damage Warranty 1 year ASUS Accidental Damage Warranty - Drops, Fire, Spill, Surge

Parts 2 years limited

Labor 2 years limited

 

[FranklinX 37]

Sounds like you have Satan's computer The EMachine. I am right? I have a feeling that your computer has more problems than just the graphics card.

 

Get a new computer or a laptop. I am using a Toshiba and it is great. It runs at a high speed.

[Noob Saibot 38]

I like my Sony and HP is okay. Serious gamer then perhaps Alien Ware.

[Polraudio 122]

Alien Ware.

way to over priced.

[Noob Saibot 38]

way to over priced.

 

Good brands are not cheap.

[Random_Guy5507 0]

I agree the Good brands are not Cheap

You might gonna hold until you got the money to buy a new PC

in the mean time well get used to it :D

[FranklinX 37]

Try getting an Apple. Apple makes very good computers. You won't have a graphics problem.

[vincestick 13]

I dunno, I've seen pretty crappy brands that cost a lot (not saying that Alien Ware is crappy, no no.....you know what I mean.)

 

I personally use my Dell Inspiron Mini 10' netbook with Windows XP. It's not as fancy as others (nor is it expensive, my 160g was about...200 bucks) but I am able to do everything I was able to do on a regular computer (RMXP (I have to change the screen res whenever I run RMXP, so I do have screen-scrolling, which I can live with), WoW, Synthesia, FoF, TuxGuitar, hell I even have PSP, PS2 and N64 emulators running on it.)

 

Anyhoo, that one Pol mentioned above looks neat. I may be on the computer a lot but I don't have the whole brands and spec knowledge like others do. If it works fine for me, then I consider it good.

 

....sorry if all this random gibber wasn't helpful. Just trying slowly to be active again.

[evil cabbage 9]

My PC is actually a lot worse now. When I had this problem before, I could boot up as far as safe mode and safe mode works fine because it uses a VGA graphics driver which doesn't use my faulty card. But because Windows 7's graphics are all "tarted up" (in the bootup process), I can't even get as far as to run safe mode now. So now I can't even boot my PC in any way.

[FranklinX 37]

Sounds like you got a huge problem. Just go get a new pc. If can't afford(no offense I don't know anything about your money) a new pc just get your computer fixed.