Crashing

I have been on second life for several years now off and on and recently came back. I have never had problems before with signing on this pc and it has always worked. Now since I came back i can log in and it will load up and I can move and teleport for a bit but then it crashes. I have not added any hardware or anything to my pc and still have all the same specs as before. here are my specs:

OS Name Microsoft Windows XP Professional
Version 5.1.2600 Service Pack 3 Build 2600
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name YOUR-4DACD0EA75
System Manufacturer HP Pavilion 061
System Model ER900AA-ABA a1430n
System Type X86-based PC
Processor x86 Family 15 Model 35 Stepping 2 AuthenticAMD ~2004 Mhz
BIOS Version/Date Phoenix Technologies, LTD 3.11, 9/19/2006
SMBIOS Version 2.4
Windows Directory C:\WINDOWS
System Directory C:\WINDOWS\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1
Locale United States
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "5.1.2600.5512 (xpsp.080413-2111)"
User Name YOUR-4DACD0EA75\HP_Administrator
Time Zone Mountain Standard Time
Total Physical Memory 1,024.00 MB
Available Physical Memory 309.76 MB
Total Virtual Memory 2.00 GB
Available Virtual Memory 1.96 GB
Page File Space 873.23 MB


I am running on cable high speed internet:

Download Speed: 1166 kbps (145.8 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 254 kbps (31.8 KB/sec transfer rate)

I had trouble finding this computer online but did find an Amazon.com listing for it. These the specifications listed for the HP Pavilion model you listed:
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Product Features and Technical Details
Product Features
AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ 2.0 GHz
GeForce 6150 LE chipset; Socket 939 motherboard
250GB 7200rpm SATA hard drive
1GB PC-3200 184-pin DDR SDRAM; expandable to 4GB
Up to 16x DVD+/-R/RW and +/-R DL LightScribe drive
Processor, Memory, and Motherboard

Hardware Platform: PC
Processor: 2.0 GHz AMD Athlon
Number of Processors: 1
RAM: 1000 MB
RAM Type: DDR SDRAM
Hard Drive

Size: 250 GB
Type: Serial ATA
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Assuming this is your computer I think you problem might be the graphics card that is in it. NVidia cards with the "LE" suffix are budget cards and not very powerful at all. It seems that during your absence, SL has possibly outgrown your card with all the new stuff that has been added to the platform recently.

You can try updating your graphics drivers.....it might solve your problem for a while. But, sooner or later that card will reach it's limits and not be usable for SL.......or, at the very best, barely usable.

And the 1 gig of RAM is a little low too.......if you could get another gig it would help at least as much as a driver update.

Ok thanks for the info. That is probably what it is then because I updated everything last night even the graphics card and it is still doing it. Thanks for letting me know.

Do you think the nvidia geforce mx4000 would be outdated too?