Thuen
April 21st, 2005, 04:49 PM
Hello, Im not familar with computers on a technical level and so may not be rightly naming or identifying my current problems.
My computer is networked to another using a "nat router" I believe, which while a bit old has functioned reasonably fine until now. Now when I log onto various online games everything will freeze for a few moments at random points then resume but make up for the momentary downtime by rapidly playing through the events that would have occured in the normal period without any hiatus.
initially I thought this problem was related to my power supply box as a few weeks earlier it was emitting a funny smell and since then makes a lot of noise along with the computer shutting down frequently. I understand this is a significant problem in itself which will be rectified shortly, it is too easy to lose data for my studies with a volatile computer.
anyway I thought this was the source of my freezing problems online until I tried the games in sinlge player where no similar instances occured. Hence I believe it must be related to either my network whether in hardware or software.
so bascially what I am asking for help is where and how to start trying to identify the cause of the problems. Thanks for any advice and aid.
My computer is networked to another using a "nat router" I believe, which while a bit old has functioned reasonably fine until now. Now when I log onto various online games everything will freeze for a few moments at random points then resume but make up for the momentary downtime by rapidly playing through the events that would have occured in the normal period without any hiatus.
initially I thought this problem was related to my power supply box as a few weeks earlier it was emitting a funny smell and since then makes a lot of noise along with the computer shutting down frequently. I understand this is a significant problem in itself which will be rectified shortly, it is too easy to lose data for my studies with a volatile computer.
anyway I thought this was the source of my freezing problems online until I tried the games in sinlge player where no similar instances occured. Hence I believe it must be related to either my network whether in hardware or software.
so bascially what I am asking for help is where and how to start trying to identify the cause of the problems. Thanks for any advice and aid.