Hello, I have been searching the internet everywhere to help pinpoint my problem and I see a lot of random answers and none of them are really explained well or identify with my problem and right now this is probably my last resort before I have to take it in the be serviced or something.
I have bought my computer back in 2008, it is an HP Pavilion with Windows Vista. 3G RAM, NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT card. AMD Athlon 64 x2 Dual Core Processor.
I have not had this problem until recently however. I first noticed my video/graphics slowing down and becoming very choppy to the point I could not watch or play games on it. Mostly I would watch on the Windows Media Player but if I switch video player to say, VLC there seems to be no problem. I looked it up and assumed maybe my computer needed some cleaning because it collects a lot of dust. Opened it up, clean/dusted and tried it again.. still the same thing.
So I have put this problem off for awhile but now, it seems everything I go to restart I receive these beeps which I looked up was the BIOS codes. When I check the BIOS on the computer it does say it is Phoenix and so when I go to look up my code I am very very confused. The beeps go as follow; 2 short beeps and then 1 long beep, pause - this then repeated three more times for a total of 4 of the same sequence. When I check the code 3-3-3-3 it says "Scan for F2 keystroke" and it is beyond me on knowing how to fix this.
I also understand there either may be something wrong with my video card and/or my memory but I honestly cannot pinpoint one thing right now in order to fix it. Today I opened the PC again, took out the video card and my RAM (2 - 512MB and 2 - 1G) cleaned and dusted, re-installed them and turned on PC only to come to the same problem. I have also uninstalled NVIDIA drivers and re-installed, and I also receive an error message from the drivers RunDLL NVCPL.DLL Error: NvCplRestorePresistence. But it finished anyways and prompts for restart. Again cannot figure it out.
These are my problems and I just cannot find the root of it or if it is a multitude of things. If I need a new video card, I am in the market for a new one, just don't want to have a new card and then other issues, just do not have the money to fix everything. Can anyone help? Thank you in advance.
