Linkdead when zoneingFollow

My girlfriend has a NEW HP Pavilion with an Athelon Processor, 984 mhz, 1 Gig RAM, and a Radeon X1300 Vid card with ALL the latest drivers. Its WAY more system than what I am running. Her problem...when she zones about every 3rd time she gets booted back out to the server page. Her character is still active and in most cases she ends up having to re-boot to clear her character. She has tweaked the graphics and turned off the sound to no avail. Needless to say she cannot raid with this system, and even grouping is extremly difficult. What can be causing these unannounced LD's?

Possibly a bad relay with your connection? What is your ping speed? Do you notice any burps in your modem's connection?

I have no idea what would cause it, just tossing out some ideas.

The MHz you list for the processor are hopefully way off? It sounds as if they stuck an old Thunderbird processor (think 1999 or so) in a new computer, and that seems odd. Click Start, then 'RUN' and type in DXdiag and click 'OK'. Don't panic if the screen goes blank for a few seconds. You will get more information about your system than you'll hopefully ever need, but on the first page, you'll see what processor is in there, along with the relevant BIOS and driver info etc.


Your problem sounds like insufficient RAM to me, which obviously shouldn't be the case with 1 Gb. Download and run a RAM test.

You shouldn't need Virtual Memory, if anything turn it way down, so your system won't spend time loading something from your hard drive, when you have ample RAM for EQ.

Defragment hard drive (just on principle).

Try running EQ without any other programs running.

Try running EQ on her machine but on your Internet-connection.

Good luck!