You guys remember the Doom 3 trailer? If I remember correctly John Carmack was giving his interview sitting in front of his PC monitor in which Visual C++ was running.
Just make sure you don't touch any other component. You don't want any fried transistors on your motherboard, do you? Detach the RAM modules and then touch it :wink:
A "bad sector" usually refers to a portion of your HDD whose data can't be read because of physical damage. And FYI, hardware problems usually can't be solved by software.
You can "lock" these bad sectors tho. Each HDD manufacturer has their own tools to do so. Check your HDD manufacturer's...
Who told you that? As long as you follow all instructions carefully and have a backup of your registry at all times, there's nothing to worry. It's neither complicated nor dangerous.
You're running Win XP on a system with 64Mb RAM? Dude, I suggest you switch immediately to Win 98.
And for page file (virtual memory) optimizations, please visit:
*www.petri.co.il/pagefile_optimization.htm
If you're into gaming, I suggest you go for a Geforce 6600GT video card. It's the best balance of price and performance right now.
The other components seem fine. Just make sure the power supply is a good one. A simple test is to take it in your hand and approximate its weight. If it's...
The heat is probably bcos of dust accumulated on the processor fan. Open your case and clean the mobo fan (if any) and processor fan.
Also make sure none of your components (processor, grafix card, memory etc.) are overclocked. Check this from the BIOS.
Right click My Computer -> Manage -> Device Manager -> IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers -> Secondary IDE Channel -> Advanced Settings page.
From here, you can turn on DMA for CD-drives.
As far as I know, you need atleast a Geforce2-MX level card to play the game smoothly. And that too at min settings. It did run in the Intel's integrated graphics chipset acc. to my friends but the framerate was nearly zero.
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