This card will struggle with new generation games such as HL2 and most of the newer games coming out later on this fall and throughout next year, I would say probably 6 months, I have one and it will...

I have a p4c800-e deluxe motherboard, I have plugged in the ribbon cable to the correct ends and attached the floppy power cable, when I turn on computer the light on the floppy does not turn on. Its...

It might not be the fact that the processor is "cold" but maybe your thermal tape or paste that you have on your heatsink is worn off and the chip gets too hot when you try to boot.

I think Im going to just do a fresh install tommorow but thanks alot guys, I wont loose any valuble data

system restore doesnt work ive tried that, it says cant complete...blah blah I cant restore at all

Yesterday I was surfing the internet for "nvidia 6800 GT" under google, and I clicked on one of the pages I saw and it was a review page for the video card and after I closed IE there were about 20...

I get this error now when I try to run a setup of adaware and other programs
any ideas?

It was on auto =\

ahhhh...dell....ahhhhh.....

I read the jumper guide somewhere and it turns out DELL for some reason has BOTH it's jumpers on CS or whatever that setting is. So i put one on master one on slave and...

Ok I got it all straight I had to re-install windows like catweazle said in that guide, and I deleted the old partition, so I only have 1 windows XP on my system now with my C: drive 94% free space...

I tried to install windows XP over my other xp to reformat and I went through all the steps and such and when I boot up I have the 2 choices of Windows XP and Windows XP. Also when I go into my C...

After installing a new motherboard and case in my system it seems that my 2 cd drives don't want to work properly. Heres what happens. I try to re-install a game and i put it in the top cd drive but...

FINNALY!!! ok I ordered my parts from newegg and they came a day ahead of schedule so that was good. I got my motherboard and hooked it all up insdie of my new case and everything on tuesday, and I...

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Ok Ill do that, but do I do that after I install my motherboard?

Ok I downloaded a driver backup program and i backed up ALL of my drivers and saved them on a cd, is that all I need to do for the drivers?

if i wanted to backup drivers would i just copy my C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS folder lol?

I'm completely lost here, do I uninstall winxp before i unplug it from my old motherboard? do I need to install drivers before my computer boots up? and where can I get those drivers on my computer?

ok ok so, before I make any changes or upgrades to my motherboard I need to..

backup my old files - do i have to back up like graphics card drivers and all my other drivers and stuff?

whipe...

How can I back up all of those files that I want to keep, really though I can probably back up the files i want to keep on cds because i just need to keep things like photoshop and other things like...

someone on another forum said if its a different kind of motherboard then you will get a boot error when you try to start up and be asked to re install windows or something

I just ordered a new motherboard and I wanted to know if I can just plug in the old hard drive and it will work? I heard somewhere that you wont be able to just plug in the hard drive but I dont...

non of th elinks work for me

good case, just get one with a power supply in it, im getting that same case tommorow with a 420 psu in it ;)

you need

motherboard
cpu
memory
harddrive
cddrive
videocard

my moms does the exact same thing it happend when she got a new computer and kept the old lcd monitor now it is fuzzy

you should really call dell tech support and talk to one of those indian guys, they gave me a whole new outlook on life. But really they can help.

Ok I was planning on getting a new psu thanks

heres the final system components I'm getting:

Motherboard - http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=240311

Case (not sure...

lol thnaks seems too risky for me for no results.

This is my local stores selection: http://www.thecomputerzoo.com/Amazing/items.asp?CartId=EVEREST-12803748CMJKH985&Cc=SCKT478M&tpc=

But I wanted to buy from my local store and the selection is somewhat limited but thanks

ok thanks I was wanting to buy the motherboard from a local store, it is here -> http://www.computerzoo.com can you tell me the best motherboard that would work
thanks man I appreciate it.

I was wondering what this was? I don't know anything about it and I have heard about it alot, does it change voltages?

-thanks

Ok I figured out the components I want to get, can you tell me if these will work,

Motherboard -...

Thanks for the psu advice, I read somewhere were soemone bought a cheap psu and it started to catch on fire so he got a new one and it burnt out so he wasted 200 bucks on cheap psus

thanks for the...

Ok my psu is 250w =\ but its a stock dell psu so its reliablebut I'm still getting a new one like you said. Would a 400 Watt do? I just removed my motherboard and removed the CPU heatsink bracket and...

Wow thanks alot

I can't tell from looking at the psu how many watts it is (thats dell for ya) and its probably not standard configuration (thats dell for ya) but if I can I will salvage the psu....

Yeah probably not worth it then, It's in one of my friends computers (he has 2) and I was thinking of trading him since he doesnt use the other for gaming, but o well thanks

something like this happend to me, are the sounds quite or loud and distinct

ok thats what I though thanks

I have been thinking of upgrading my system that I currently have. I was wondering how much trouble this would be...I would want the following
1.) A new AMD processor but if this is too much of a...