PC Problems Q&A thread

[Naraku_Diabolos]

ssj12 said:

Naraku_Diabolos said:
I have a problem with my laptop. When I am downloading some music off LimeWire (lol >_< ), LimeWire eats my Internet connection at times and I'm unable to use the Internet. I then try to use the diagnostic tool to see if I can fix the problem, but my computer is unable to do so. I am then forced to restart my laptop to use the Internet again. Ssj12, I also read on the new SP1 for Vista that the new SP will update the wireless software so you have more reliability. Would that help my Internet problem and correct it?

 It's quite possible, but the main problem would seem that your laptop is actually to weak to run vista. See if you can get a downgrade to XP. 

LOL? My new laptop has Vista Home Premium already on it. I could run Ultimate if I wanted to.

My old laptop, which I gave to my sister, originally had Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 on it, but I later upgraded it to Vista Home Premium, but it seems that PC is too weak for Vista. It was acting REALLY funny when it had XP (started lagging; I think the Toshiba brand laptops decay overtime, because the quality is horrible but the model was supposed to be the best [Qosmio]) and had some problems, even after I restarted it to factory default for my sister (it acted like it had a severe virus ruining the system). Plus, that laptop overheats VERY, VERY badly. It has extremely poor ventilation and makes this awful whining sound when I or my sister turn it on. I plan on buying her a better one when she graduates from high school in 2011. After I installed Vista on my old laptop, it ran fine, but then started screwing up again...and now it only messes up on me when I try to use it, but it doesn't on my sister.