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i bought a second hand xfx 7800 gs and when i play certain games the computer shuts down. battlefield usually lasts but the game that turns of eveytime after about 4 mins is unreal demo. I have not got a clue about what could cause this apart from this being …

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Hi friends, I have a problem with my Laptop display. Actually, the laptop bag slips from my hand and from that display is coming but it is very dark, it's very hard to see. i have asked someone, he told me that might be u have to change the whole …

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every thing work on it but the monitor i try using a desktop monitor but that didn't what is the problem

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I downloaded the following: "Waterfalls3free.exe" as a screen saver. It was not satisfactory, so I deleted/uninstalled. In the process my Display Properties were reduced to 16 colors and 640 by 480 pixels. This is the only choice given. Pictures, etc. are very distorted.:sad: Is there anything I can do to …

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Alright I'll explain this the best I can. I have a compaq monitor from several years ago. It was working fine and then the other day it started messing up, getting some lines through it and what not, and then it just powered off. The strange part is, the monitor …

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I hate my life I always have errors when I wanna play my games!:sad: The problem with this game is, I install it and load it up. Working fine...try to log in and BAM!!! Im back to my desktop like I never even started the program... This used to happen …

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just wondering how i change the display adapter within the bios from agp to pci-x?

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Yeah I know this is probably the wrong forum to post this on but oh well, the community here usually helps me out... So. I got Oblivion and I was playing it and first the sound was messed up, I installed the new patch and changed my sound setup and …

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Hi there, I'm new to the site, but my problem is my monitor is also fuzzy, I was running true-clour in 1024 X 768 in Win 98 SE and until two days ago it was running fine. I installed a game from a cereal box for my little brother thinking …

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Hi everyone, The screen (lcd) on my R40e went blank and replaced the whole assambly that i bought on E-bay. Still no picture. But on an external monitor the mashine is fine. Replaced the lcd cable, still no picture, but on an external monitor OK. Checked the LCD assy on …

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PLEASE READ ALL SO I DONT HAVE TO RETYPE WHAT I ALREADY SAID I recently built my computer and everything was running fine the first night im actually using it right now to wright this,but im on my onboard video. i installed quake 4 and still everything was fine my …

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My friend has an old Compaq Presario with a defective 15-pin connector and I’m having difficulties in installing a new Graphics card on his pc. History : After every boot on an XP-Home SP1 Presario, display works fine for a few seconds, then the screen is filled with small gray …

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I have a Gateway 450ROG notebook and for some reason have a flicker in the monitor when the brightness is set to a low level. The flicker is never present when the brightness is set at a high level. The flicker only occurs when I actually move the monitor, so …

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hi im need a little help with fast writes,im running a nvidia pny 6600 agp on a foxconn motherboard,all the settings are on but when i go through the video settings it says this...gpu yes..chipset yes...os yes...optimal no,is there anything i can do to get this optimal setting to say …

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hi all, i was very stpid yesterday and acccidentally pushed my laptop off the table onto the floor. The result is that I have no 'bAcklight' on my screen. (i apologize if you cant read tis due to terrible spelling, but it's almost impossible to see what im writing!). I …

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When i try to watch a video either on the net or from my own cds my computer screen starts to blink on and off. Im thinking its my graphic card but not sure. I think my graphic card is on the blink literally. Dont suppose anyone has had this …

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[U][COLOR=#0033cc][URL="http://img144.imageshack.us/my.php?image=pic0729061pt4.jpg"]http://img144.imageshack.us/my.php?image=pic0729061pt4.jpg[/URL][/COLOR][/U] I recently bought a ATI Radeon X600 Pro 256MB PCI Express Video Card and it does not fit in my computer. Now, before I bring it back, it would be nice to know exactly what kind I need. I know I need a PCI express one but there is …

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Just bought a GeForce 7800 GT from EvGa. I love it. I highly recomend this card easily instalation, no software problems, no adjusting just run it. BTW I have been playing it with Age of Empires 3. Can finaly play it on highest settings. Anyone else know how to overclock …

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Hi all, I was hoping for some advice on a recent problem. I have a home PC running Windows XP using an ATI Radeon 9800 Pro video card and a Medion monitor. Both the graphics card and monitor are around 6 - 8 months old and were an upgrade to …

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my monitor can turn on but when it is connected to my tower it goes into stanby mode and i do not get y?

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Hi, my husband just reformatted my computer and I re-installed my Lineage 2 game and I am trying to open it up and right after I hit the start button a warning box pops up and says, "The game may not be consistant because AGP is deactivated. Please activate AGP …

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I have a customer who is using his tv screen as a screen for comp screen when he plays dvd s the movie and sound dont work together the picture is fine but the sound takes couple of seconds to catch up???? its a 42 inch flat philips tv

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I'm in the market for a graphics card for my computer but I'm not sure what to get. I know I need one that supports at least 1.2 per-Pixel Shader (or something like that) and be the best i can get for under $200 dolors US. My computer is a …

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Alright heres the problem, I start up the game, try to enter the actual game play and i get an EXCEPTION_ACESS_VIOLATION. And quite frankly I don't want it, I also don't want to upgrade my stupid Geforce 4 mx 440, so without further adue here is the error i get …

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I AM POSTING IN BOTH THE ADD IN CARD AND GRAPHOCS FORUMS FEEL FREE TO MOVE/DELETE THE WRONG ONE (SORRY MODERATORS!) [IMG]http://www.hauppauge.co.uk/board/images/icons/icon1.gif[/IMG] [B]Old PCI card and XP HELP ME?[/B] I have an old WinTV card out of an ME machine. I think it was baught about 2000. I dont know …

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hi there, i recently bought a 6600gt from ebay (so it came alone no driver disks etc.) its pci-e, i plugged it in and booted up the pc, found the drivers on the nvidia webiste and installed them. however after reboot i founsd the computer was still using the onboard …

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Hi all, I got an IBM thinkpad 22, and it went abroad with me recently, in a suitcase rather than as hand luggage. It worked fine b4 the trip, but not afterwards. At first I thought the xray machines or ruff handling had killed the machine, as the monitor has …

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I have a small office where we have several workstations. 7 to be exact. Two of the monitors have been giving me fits lately, [b]the first one...[/b] An Envision EFT-720 started having some difficulty a few weeks ago, it would *zapp* the display, it would collapse from side to side …

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I hear everyone is waiting for dx10 but dont know whether it is a graphic card, diect x driver for games, a new cpu or what. Could someone please inform me what it is in computer newbie lingo. thanks greenhouse

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I am having serious problems with my lcd and I am at a loss what to do with it. Below is a post I made a few weeks ago on a different site. I thought everything was fixed after I updated my video driver. Everything was normal for over a …

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in th bios my card is on agp and fastwrite but everywhere else on windows it says im using pci port. I cant help but think im losing out on some power because it thinks im using the pci port or maybe it is really just hard for windows to …

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Hi, Can I increase the size of print on my moniter? I do not have good vision and it would helpt to have the print larger. Thanks to the forum for helping me. I already got one problem solved yesterday!:cheesy:

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I have a dell latitude laptop and I would like to connect my Compaq moniter to it so that I have a bigger screen. How do I do that? Thanks in advance for your help!

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Well, I recently got an iLo monitor from Walmart in December, and there are two extremely annoying things going on with it. 1- It makes a really annoying buzzing sound, the kind that quickly drives you insane. It never goes away, and it's been doing this for a while now. …

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Hi, I am using a Acer laptop 290. I found some times my lap top start and showing Acer page and after few seconds it stop working and giving a bright light (means white light nothing else) and laptop in not booting or halting. Some time it starts good and …

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I have a Radeon All-in-Wonder 256mb agp card and an Acer al1916 lcd monitor. The problem I'm having is if I have to restart for any reason, ie. downloads, updates, etc. , the system will shut down but the monitor says no signal. The only way that I can get …

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Hi, I am using a Acer laptop 290. I found some times my lap top start and showing Acer page and sfter few seconds it stop working and giving a bright light (means white light nothing else) snd laptop in not booting, Some time it start and ask for booting …

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I recently bought a radeon 9550 (256 mb) for my computer. It replaced my old radeon 7k (32 mb). Well it occasionally, after maybe 30 minutes - 1 hour, it restarts by itself. Also, when I play video games, I only play a few minutes of it then my computer …

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my Viewsonic A90F has had strange white flickering lines near the bottom for about 6 months now they're worse right when I turn the monitor on, but I'm still unable to expand the screen any lower than about half an inch above it's physical maximum I've turned off all electronic …

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Hi all, I bought this [URL="http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/products/features.aspx/desktops_Q2_W8_dimen_3100c_D073C5A?c=ie&cs=iedhs1&l=en&s=dhs"]Dell Dimension 3100[/URL] last week, but it has one of those useless built in graphics cards (even though it's a 128MB one). I want to pruchase a new one. But from what I can tell from the image in the owners manual, it looks like …

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How do i install my graphic cards power connecter? It has a side with a big black pin and 2 different other pin connecters. where do i plug them ect.:eek: as my comp is haveing power difficulties and i cant im sure i havent connected to the power supply properly. …

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hi everest says my agp is not enabled or the fastwrite. Everest says it will decrease performance but i have both the fastwrite and agp enabled in my bios. i think my comp thinks im using pci port or everest does. i just got a new agp card and want …

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Hi Everyone. I hope you can help me with this, other forums have failed! My daughter dropped my laptop. Afterwards pressing the power key only caused the the shift capslock & another LCS to flash. I took it apart and reset the chip, nothing. By fluke i disconnected the screen …

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Hello sorry, I'm not very computer smart but...I plat this game called Lineage 2and a few mins into the game my screen goes black, I can still hear sound but i can not exit the game, minamize the screen, or use ctrl alt del. I have to manualy turn off …

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I recently installed a GeForce FX 5200 AGP graphics card into my friends computer, and everything went as usual until he tried to play a game. The games seem to load up fine, but once in the game, everything flickers a dark red, in a strobe light kind of pattern. …

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I'm troubleshooting a friend's 15" LCD Monitor. It will not display any color whatsoever, just a blank white screen. On boot-up I can see a dozen or so colored vertical lines that quickly disappear. Pushing any/all buttons on the monitor has no effect at all. Booting up in safe mode, …

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I have inspiron 8000 & the screen went blank. It works with a crt monitor but it wont work on the laptop monitor. I just noticed a activity on the laptop monitor but its really dark. Do I need the lcd screeen or the inverter?? Anybody know where I can …

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I'm having a PCI TV Tuner Card to which an audio cable is given. i installed the card to my mother board and its working well. The problem is I'm not knowing where to inser this audio cable.It's a four pin cable.But the audio header provision on my Mother board …

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Hi...well I just bought a Gateway laptop for school maybe a month ago. A couple weeks ago I turned it on but the backlight isnt working. I can barely see anything. I found out that if I press on the back of it, it'll work but if I'm not pressing …

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Hi folks. This is an intent to find a fast solution to the problem with my son's P4 gaming PC. Symptoms: everything seem to work but the monitor is black (tried another that is good for sure -same thing) What seems to work: power supply's fans, HD, video card's fan; …

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