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| | I am torn between 2 options [url]http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=2272896&sku=A458-1116%20Q[/url] That kit has a 32bit 3.06GHz processor which is better than my 2.50 GHz Or this kit: [url]http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/item-Details.asp?EdpNo=2273650&sku=M450-2400%20A[/url] which has a 64bit 2.00GHz processor Right now I am running XP, but I will probably end up getting Vista, so in the long run … |
| | I have an ASUS PR-DLS533 MB, capable of up to 12 GB. I had 2 x 512KB sticks originally. RAM reads 1 GB. PC2100, ECC Registered DDR. I bought 3 more 1 GB sticks (Brand A) and a single 1 GB stick (Brand B) I installed, in pairs, two of … |
| | So yeah... im getting confused now, which one should I get? A 64-bit with much lower speeds or a 32 bit which clocks in at 3.2? It used to be simple... lol, all we had to do is look at the ghz |
| | In about one month i am purchasing a new video card, which will require me to purchase a new power supply, because my current one is only a 250w. I have been searching many websites in order to try to find out with PSU i will need and what features … |
 | Anyone have any experience with "machine exception errors, I've googled it and get a few corses of action but i'm looking to narrow it down. I've got a foxconn mobo 6150, aspire x-pac case, 2gb OCZ ram, AMD athlon 1.8ghz cpu. I can test or replace the ram replace the … |
| | I want to clean the heatsink and cpu but can not remove cover above it. I removed two scews but it binds as if it's attached in the middle under the cover. Both ends of cover are free...no other screws or clips that can be seen. It won't lift or … |
| | I'll start with my specs: AMD Athlon XP 3100+ 2.2 ghz rated at 3.1 ghz 1 gb of PC2700 Ram ATI Radeon 9200SE With newer games becoming available on the market, they require better and better computers. My video card is pretty much extinct, as it does not support DX … |
| | hi everyone! i am new to all this but my computer died and i decided to have a crack at fixing it myself i knew it was the mother board so i replaced it with one i brought off ebay. i also replaced the power supply. by the way its …  |
| | Was just wondering if anyone has experienced any problems with a micro chasis? Such thinks like overheating or problems finding the apropriate mobo? Thinking about moving my ATX mobo from my tower PC into a more compact chasis and would like to know all i can about the dangers before … |
| | my P4 (3 GHz ) cpu is overheating seriously ! it reached 100'C today.. and is (acording to the bios) @ about 72'C at startup... ive got an intel 915GAV Motherboard and the standard cpu fan & heatsink... ive also got about 3 other chassis fans. the motherboard sensors read … |
| | Oops had this in the Linux Forum by mistake.. Doh! Hello all.. I just fixed a friends PC with a new PC Chips M848A MOBO, his old MOBO was more-or-less dead and the Power supply plug was showing signs of overheating Pins, so replaced that with a 350 PSU ( … |
| | Hi, I was wondering if anyone could help. I bought a grphics card (Powercolor Radeon ATI x800) and installed it today. I immediately saw something was wrong cos I got all sorts of lines on my screen). I tried to install the card again but had the same problem. At … |
| | Hi everyone, newbie here - hope I'm in the right place. My boss's Toshiba notebook (1955-S806) shut down while he was working and now it keeps rebooting. It gets as far as the Windows XP logo and then restarts. I tried rebooting in safe mode - same problem. Shutting down … |
| | Is there a way to adjust cpu frequency on the motherboard to get a processor to boot? |
| | recently bought a p4 3.2 478 skt,800 fsb,cpu and replacing an old celeron 2.6,install new cpu and nothing happens,can some one help as i have downloaded updates and still does not work |
| | Can someone please help. Recently after my brother has been using the computer and entering BIOS settings, my computer will not boot correctly. The power on light is green and everything seems on, but nothing will come up on the screen. I think, possibly that my brother has changed the … |
| | Yeah my comp aint got an AGP port, and it has a really crappy chipset that dont support vertex or pixel shaders the chipset is the Intel 82845G/GL/GE/PE/GV. I really need ta figure out how i can get an AGP slot into this comp, i got a wicked ATI card … |
| | Hello, I had a question regarding the fan over my processor chip. About five, six months ago, my computer kept spontaneously restarting and freezing. Took it into the repair shop and they replaced the processor fan. It's froze up twice in the past two weeks and I'm thinking it's because … |
| | Currently my system is as follows: Pentium 4 Processor 530 3.0GHz ATI Radeon X300SE 128MB PCI-Express Twinmos 2x512MB PC3200 DDR400 CL2.5 Seagate 80GB SATA HDD 8MB cache 7,200rpm 300W PSU Windows XP Home SP2 I'm thinking of adding another 1GB(2x512) of RAM, bringing it to a total of 2GB(4x512). Will … |
| | my computer has 128MB PC2100 RAM and i just recently bought a 256MB PC2100 RAM(i know it's kinda old, but it's much better than having none;) )..i'm not that sure if my computer would detect both of them, based on what i've heard that your RAM must come from the … |
| | Hello everyone, I've had a problem that has occured several times when I'm playing Elder Scrolls Oblivion, which is a game that requires alot of computer power. The screen goes blue, i get the msg that the computer has recovered from a serious error and I have to restart. This … |
| | Hi all.Great site you have going here,so would appreciate if I can get solution to this problem. I just got a new case for my motherboard and cpu,but when i switch it on starts with just the system and cpu fans going and no post or the screen doesnt come … |
| | Ok so I was told to buy a new power source for my NVIDIA Graphics Card because I only had 250w. I bought one with 500w. I think thats more then enough, but I think I saw an artifact Im kind of scared to play my games because I will … |
| | i have a question 2 ask i just bought a new motherboard LGA775 GA-8I945GMF anh when i finished assemblem it nothing happen just a black screen appear the power is on but sccreen not appear and i dont no what wrong whit it plz help  |
| | my notebook charger will not charge my notebook. is there a part i can just replace to fix it |
| | If u guys figure this out i will give u a cookie... Ok i bought some new ram two 1gb DDR333 CL2.5 stuff... [URL="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...9382&rd=1&rd=1"][COLOR=#22229c]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...9382&rd=1&rd=1[/COLOR][/URL] When i put it into my pc.. and started it a loud long beep occurred... (which means motherboard couldnt find any ram) this is my motherboard … |
| | I have a Intel D845WN/HV motherboard, recently I broke the processor fan holders... so, it started hanging up and shutting down... I installed Motherboard Monitor 5 and found out that the temperature went up to 80c... when it reaches 84 or 86 it shuts down... then I bought a new … |
| | I have an NVIDIA 6600 Gt and its got problems... When I play World of Warcraft or any other game the graphics start blinking this weird red/green color, I believe its called "artifacts"??? Anyways, Ive also read that it can be caused by the Power Supply... I have 250w in … |
| | I cannot figure out what type of motherboard I have. I tried the crucial system scanner, didnt work. It said 'pmg we cannot detect ur motherboard lollerz BUY OUR MEMRY NOWZ' And it also reported that I can hold 4gb of RAM, when my manual says I can only hold … |
| | I'd like to hear opinions on what the possible options are for diagnosing this problem please: I have a Gateway laptop that I recently purchased from eBay. The laptop was fine, but one hot day it locked up and I dropped the battery out of it to to turn it … |
| | My ASUS "P4C800-E Deluxe" MoBo has 2 SATA connections and 2 SATA RAID connections. I would like to use 3 SATA hard drives, in a [U][B]non[/B][/U] RAID configuration, with this MoBo. Can I connect the third HD to one of the "RAID" MoBo connectors, and have it work, or are … |
| | Okay so my fan si really loud. My graphic card is loud. When I play games it gets super loud, too the I wanna kill myself volume. And when i play games the graphics blink this red/green color ever so often. JUst like..out of nowhere... Ive been dealing wtuih this … |
| | Hi all, I have a compaq M300 that I bought used less than a month ago.It has XP Pro installed and the battery held a charge for a few hours.Someone wanted me to demonstrate how to disconnect the docking station but I do not think it was powered down completely … |
| | Is there anything out there that will sit on my desktop so I can monitor CPU, memory temp in real time. I have tried bginfo from sysinternals, the way it looks is exactly what I am looking for, but it does not monitor temp. [url]http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/BgInfo.html[/url] Does anyone know of anything … |
| | I've just purchased a good computer (I hope), I picked the components myself and there good as... but, due to having to wait ages before it con be ordered I went with Memory that I now know has a fairly slow recomended CL3 as apposed to CL2.5. How much performance … |
| | They just upgraded some server racks at work and let us go through the "junk bin" for anything we wanted. I am getting ready to upgrade my ancient system at home to a AMD 64 3700+ and a ASUS A8N32-SLI mobo. So I looked through the power supplies, knowing that … |
| | hi everyone, i installed ram the other day 512, 256 & 128 for a total of 896mb. i noticed a huge difference, programs opened and ran faster as did the computer in general. now i'm finding i'm back to where i was before with programs taking a while to open … |
| | Hi everyone on my moby and on loads of others there is a little mini 4 gang switch thingy, normally blue, with no 1 low, 2 high, 3 high and 4 low. I have puzzled over this for a long time and my puzzler can do no more puzzling. [I][B][U]can … |
| | Hi everyone, I'm planning on building a new computer (this will be my first build) and I was wondering if everything was compatible. Also if you have any reommendations that would be helpful as well. [URL="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819103547"]AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200[/URL] [URL="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814150139"]XFX Geforce 7900 GT[/URL] [URL="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820227067"]RAM[/URL] [URL="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16811208004"]Case with 450 watt power … |
| | During the winter, I made the mistake of running a virus scan program overnight, while I knew there was a snowstorm going on outside. Power went out, surged back in, and it fried something. I was rather frustrated, because when I purchased my computer, I was somewhat new to things, … |
| | I have an old computer that I'm giving to my friend - my pc had win 98 but I took the HD out and put it in my new one (as a slave - I had way too much stuff on it copy to the new HD). I took my … |
| | Im having trouble with the sound on my girlfriends pc. She got it last year and has a 5.1 speaker system. When she first got it it was working fine playing all sounds, games, movies, internet etc. I moved our computers a couple of months ago and since plugging her … |
| | Hello everyone, I'm about to buy 4 Gigs of ddr2 ram for my computer. Its a Dell Dimension 9100, and it came with 1 Gig. Basically i'm upgrading the system, getting a better video card and now the ram. What i'm worried about is that i remember reading that too … |
| | Hi, I am having trouble getting the motherboard out of my Compaq laptop (Presario 2500). The manual states that there are two screws in the motherboard by the CPU but there are no screws. I need to repair the power socket but need the motherboard out so I can get … |
| | I need to add about 200 MB of RAM to my computer so i can play World of Warcraft. The only thing is i dont know how to add the RAM to play the game. Someone Plz help me out!! |
 | Four year old PC running on XP with AMD Duron Processor MMX , 600 Mhz. I wish to install Photoshop which requires 800 Mhz.; Will it run OK or should I fit faster processor, and is it safe to do so? Thanks Tez |
| | Hi, I have Dell Inspiron 8500. It came with 256MB (128MB in each slot). I upgraded it to 1GB ( 521MB +512NB). It worked with 1gb somedays. Then it started showing 521MB. Madesure that there is not problem with memory modurels. both modurles work in DIMM A slot. But DIMM … |
| | Hi, I have just reformatted my windows XP, from what i gathered all went well, except i have no sound and dxdiag says it is not installed?? i have a generic graphics card running instead of my ati radeon 9800 pro and also the computer seems to be running slower … |
| | Hello, a few months ago, my computer kept freezing/locking, especially when running multiple processes (FFXI running, 4-5 IE windows, Windows Media Player playing something...), and also when playing WarCraft III(and that one happened a lot). By freezking/locking, I mean that the screen would turn black, the sound froze, and keyboard … |
| | I have 2 memory slots, and in both of them i installed 256 sticks, which should add up to 512, but is only adding up to 384, which would be the case if one stick were only 100 something... what am i doing wrong?? |
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