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im looking to buy this video card along with my new motherboard and was wondering if it is going to be alright for some one who plays fairly needy games like Battlefield 2, Counter strike, Elder scrolls 4 and other games like Fear. [URL]http://global.msi.com.tw/index.php?func=proddesc&prod_no=828&maincat_no=130[/URL] i am not looking to play …

Hello Everyone, I have anIntel pentium D processor 3.0 ghz and it runs at a temprature of about 60-64 C at idle and goes upto 67 C in load conditions. Is this a Normal temprature range for the processor. (since its summer , the room temprature is around 32-35 C) …

I am looking to buy a new graphics card, because my current one is awful (Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 900). I am looking for a card that will support Prince of Persia: Sands of Time. The game recomends GeForce3 or Radeon 8500+. Anyone got any suggestions? (Needs T&L)

i might be buying a 8800gts. i am not sure if it requires cooling.i do understand that the minimum power requirement is 400W but i am not sure if it requires extra fans or cooling. Will my pc actually heat up if i dont put extra fans or cooling.

I am looking into switching my motherboard over so i can use pci video cards Instead of agp and i was wondering if i could still use all my bits and whatnot from my old rig on the new motherboard, my main concern is my cpu.... the motherboard im looking …

Hi Guyz, I dont know where to post this....but i am having a very big problem with my wireless adapter. suddenly during working my connection got lost...i am able to connect thru ethernet. In device manager..my device manager is showing an excalamation mark over the network adapter with error code …

Hi guys I am looking for some advice/suggestions. Just this week I bought a new comp and love it :) I do have an old PC its connect in my LAN however its is about 5-6 yrs old now and I am thinking of upgrading. OLD PC'S Specs: P3, 450 …

OK. i admit i messed up. i was deleting useless files when i accidently deleted some system files. I need help. When i start the computer up it say's it's missing some computer files. It says enter setup and when i go to setup i don't know what to do. …

I like a few others are the mortal (very mortal while playing games) who have bought agp slotted motherboards without pci 16x slots. roaming servers like a lonely puppet of miserable sorrow i wonder if i had a XFX 7300GT with a pci slot how much better would it be …

if i was to get a new graphics card with s-video could i hook it up to my tv it isnt plasma or lsd just a normal 32 inch tv it would be great i need to know before i spend 200 quid cheers bondi 007

My laptop keeps crashing, in any situation, usually if its just on desktop. Then a blue screen comes up saying something about Kernel Data Error and loads of numbers. Then when it restarts the desktop comes up with a message saying there was a serious hardrive error. and most of …

I found an updated driver for my SIS530 here :) [url]http://www.sis.com/download/agreement.php?url=/download[/url]

I have a weird problem with my Toshiba Satellite 2100 CDT. It sometime work good, but sometime it freeze (hang) when I work with it and can't do anything except I just reboot with slide the power. After I reboot, the leds indicator (the power, monitor and the battery indicator) …

:'(:'( [COLOR=red]HEY GUYS PLZZ HELP ME OUT AS SOON AS POSSIBLE PLZZZ.. ITS VRYY URGENT .. THE PROBLEM IS THAT I HAVE A KRYPTON U8668-D(VIA P4M266A / VT8235) (VERSION 7.5) MOTHERBOARD. ON THAT I HAVE INSTALLED AN INTEL PENTIUM 2.80 GHZ (HT) PROCESSOR.. NOW THE PROBLEM IS INSTEAD OF SHOWING …

[B]Hi all. hope someone can help. I've reformatted a freinds computer which is running Win98 as he was completely clogged with bugs an all sorts. It was never defragged for 5yrs since he had it. anyway. During the time he has had it, he had the old analoque monitor but …

Hello everyone, I am shortly building a new rig, consisting of: abit IL9 pro - motherboard core 2 duo e4300 - cpu x850xt - g-card 250gb sata seagate barracuda - hdd and some other bits and pieces I was wondering if there was any difference is performance between a 1gb …

Could someone please educate me on this matter. I have googled it and have found nothing. What is the difference between memory modules with black chips on one side and black chips on both sides? I have 4 identical memory sticks...only difference is the number of black chips. Two of …

My laptop recently crashed (by the way, thanks again to those of you who responded to that post =] it works now) and so i was looking into the area of external hard drives for back up between my desktop and laptop i don't really know much in the hardware …

I bought a new computer with a MSI 865pe board. It will not post. No beeps! Please help.

I have a computer that i have built and upgraded and it has been a work in process for some time. About 2 weeks ago i had an issue in which my motherboard would not boot at all. I RMAd the motheboard, received a new one and am now having …

My 1150 Dell laptop will not start up. The DC powerjack on the motherboard broke off on it. It was a clean break and the laptop still worked perfectly but I could obviously not charge it. I used it for a few hours until the battery got weak. I very …

Hello members, I am trying to upgrade my RAM on my computer and am having problems. It orginally had a stick of DDR 512MB PC2100 and an empty slot. I took out that stick and inserted a DDR 1GB PC3200 that I had purchased. After doing so, Windows Vista did …

So this is how it started. I was working on my pc last week had music players and bearshare running at that time and suddenly pc just froze. i restarted it but it came up with different options like start normally blah blah blah start with last known good configuration. …

I have a RCA RT2390 surround sound receiver and I am attempting to hook it up to my computer. Does anyone even know if this could be done?

Hi all, new member here. I am looking for some advice on a Toshiba Tecra 9100 that a friend is troubleshooting. Initially there was no power to the laptop, so he did a complete disassembly, checking all connections. On this laptop the mainboard is basically in 2 parts as I …

looking for some help... Please ok heres the deal. i recently had to replace the mother board on my laptop and the lcd inverter (guess its common for these to die) well anyways now when i try to start the laptop up i get a screen that just displays this …

Help! The most urgent problem is my pc keeps restarting when i do certian things like open setups most installations i open reset the pc before i can do anything run and reset and another thing is logging into MSN ect infact after a certain time it resets anyway AND... …

When I go into control panel - sounds and audio devices - properties - it tells me that there is no audio device beside volume and beside audio there is no playback + no recording device I don't know whether the sound card is faulty ( It worked before I …

My niece's Dell Inspiron 5100 has got a Hitachi 40 gig hd and it over heats. Got a laptop cooler and it still runs hot 125deg's and up. If i take a regular house fan and turn it pointing up and sit the laptop on top of the fan it …

This post isn't so much about a hard drive as it is about machine/system recognition. I have two identical systems made by the same manufacturer. One of the system's power supply failed. That was the system used most often. Therefore I swapped internal hard drives, thinking that it should run …

hi, i bought 2gb of ram to my computer (ASUS P4S800D-X motherboard), (2 sticks of 1gb), i installed them instead of the two sticks of 256mb i had, now, the bios and operating systems show me theres only 1gb. but CPU-Z shows that i have two. what should i do? …

I am not able to play any sounds through current system ever since the install of Vista. There is a little equalizer (sort of) in the system tray that says music is playing, but it will not play on the speakers. The speakers work fine. Any ideas?

Hey! I have a neat problem, my mic doesnt work. Well it does, but really it doesnt. I can hear myself threw the playback(if i talk in the mic ofcourse). If i run the test hardware wizard i can see the barometer moving. both of them. But people i wanna …

Hello Community well this is my first post xD I got a problem with my logitech microphone I plug it in into the pink jack in my backpanel and it doesnt work, just like nothing is plugged. Im pretty sure that the problem is not the microphone, because it works …

I'm having problems getting my microphone to detect in the gigabyte auto-sense. For some reason it is seeing it as a power speaker. I have a regular boom mic and it works fine(it is detected properly and works in every way i have tried) but when i try to hook …

My laptop's PCMCIA socket connection is loose and requires you to press hard underneath the laptop to get a connection. I *think* the problem may be a strip of metallic tape on the motherboard having lost its stickiness (due to age and/or dust). Can I do anything about this? ---------------------------------------------------- …

Help. I bought a HP scanjet 3970 and hooked it up to my G4 Mac, The scanner goes on when I start the computer but when I go to scan it does not seem to recognize the software. I cannot scan by using the buttons on the scanner either. It …

i have an intel pentium 4 3600 ghz on my intel D925XBC with a winfast PX7800GT and a SATA WD 80GB HDD and a kingston 1g 667mhz DDR2 CL5. at first i thought it was overheating so i bought a AS5 paste but that did'nt help i then re-installed Windows …

I am hoping someone will be able to help with this problem. I went to get on my computer this morning and noticed it was off, I went to power it up and nothing happened. Well I checked all of my cables and plugs and everything seemed fine so I …

Hello I'm new here to this forum and like to post a question on a laptop. I got a laptop from a friend which does not work. I don't know the history of it either. It' a Toshiba Tecra A3 and the symtoms are as follows: Power's on but no …

Have a hp computer that has gone toes up. Think it is the hdd, but not sure. here is what happened. turn the unit on and it started to spool up then went into recycle mode. wounld not load up windows. tryed to restart in safe mode, nothing there, would …

Has anyone done this and if so what kind of problems am I getting myself into? My adaptor board is due in on Monday, it is a Rosewill RC212 4xSATA +1XIDE R .Any advice on setting it up!

Hi, I am new to this forum. Not sure if this is the correct place to post this, but it sounds like you guys are hard core techs and I figured someone here would know how to fix my problem.:icon_lol: Somehow, my hard drive name changed to the name of …

I have a Dell 8400. In BIOS, there is no reading for temperature or fan speed. Is that normal? How can I get temperature and fan speed readings for this computer? Thanks.

Hi, I have just bought Pinnacle PCTV 300i Sterio DVB-T card and it came with the software Pinnacle Media Center. When I tell the software that I want it to scan for chanels I get this error: [quote]See the end of this message for details on invoking just-in-time (JIT) debugging …

I have a Dell Latitude CPx (J series) laptop and a section of my keyboard decides not to work at various times. (The Y, U, H, J, N, and M section.) Most of the time I can restart it and it will work properly after that. Other times, it doesn't …

My PC keeps shutting down. It will go into the blue screen sometimes even load windowsxp but shuts down (fully as if I turned it off) in seconds. Even if I try to go into safe mode, it shuts down while still on the black screen. When it shuts down, …

Alright, I bought the parts to build my girlfriend a computer. Right now, I have the mobo mounted, and the cpu&heatsink installed. The ram is in inplace, and I believe all the jumpers are confiured correctly. The only thing about the jumpers is this... This is how they look.. [ …

can u guys help me [URL]http://www.dealtime.com/xPF-Thermaltake-PSU-TT-W0131RU-850W-RT[/URL] what does it mean by the "ATX 12V" I know ATX is the case type and i know 12 V is 12 volts but why is it there???

Okay I found this laptop at my job,and so i decided to bring it and see if it still works and running there is a problem thou.I turned it on first there was a problem with the bios time and set i set that all up,and then they said operating …