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Within the first 5 mins of powering on the pc the CPU's temp is already at 70 degrees!!! slowly the temp creeps up to 80!!!! PC keeps on restarting/crashing etc. & also the voltage ranges from 1.76 V to 1.81 V!!! Is this the sign of a failing CPU? or …

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i have a memory question. i have a 478 socket northwood with a gig of pc2700 single channel ram. The new boards im looking at all seem to run duel channel. I have heard that some are backwards compatable and will run both duel channel and single channel, but is …

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I need to find out what issues others have been having with their 939 motherboards. I need to find a stable board that is proven and compatible. The last two boards I have used has had an issue with either the ide drivers or something. My first board I had …

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I just custom ordered a system and while on new egg I took a glance at the water cooling systems on there. My question is, how exactly do they work? As an electronics student (for future computer design as hobby) I'd like to know. To me, from the pictures it …

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I have a Microstar K7 Pro (MS6195) main board that has 196MB of RAM, and I want to increase it to it's max cap of 768MB. My owners manual list the memory as being 168-pin unbuffered DIMM, which supports a 3.3v PC100 SDRAM. I pulled one of the modules out …

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Never have had a memory problem with anything before. I bought some mushkin blue and couldn't get anything to work. I ran memtest and one ram had thousands of errors in the first 30 seconds and the other had 24 in a minute so I sent them back. Now I …

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Hey all, Just bought an ASUS Socket 370 CUV4X-E Motherboard off of Ebay for 65$. Unfortunatly, my 60 gig Maxtor (cheap drive) is about 3 years old and is on its way out. I want to buy a 200 maxtor for 100$ from staples (again cheap drive but you can't …

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I'm having a problem with a locking up computer. The computer I'm having trouble with is constantly freezing up. Not when I play games or anything, because I can't even install a game, let alone get a CD in the drive before it freezes up. It freezes to the extent …

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i running a Toshiba Satellite M35-S320 with 60gb HDD Intel Pentium M 1.5 NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5200 32mb 1.25 gb RAM and i was wondering if it was possible to share my normal RAM with my video ram, and if so how i would go about doing that with either …

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Today as I sat down I bumped my computer as it was on, the keyboard and mouse didn't work, I cheacked all connections but it was just frozen, I tried turning it off with the normal front switch but it did nothing, I had to use the main switch at …

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Mother Board: Intel 845 Processor: Intel Celeron 2.4 ghz I'm thinking of increasing RAM to 1.024 gb of ram from 128 mb. Will the computer speed up? The memory I use normally comes to 180 when seen in task manager. Is it better that I buy 256mb ram and is …

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I am going to be building a computer for a friend of mine who is a quad. It will have the speech program naturally speaking which is very memory intensive and also several others. It will have a special kind of mic and some other things. Would it make a …

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I am curious to see what people have to think about all of the new cpu technology coming out in the next year or so. If you were building a new computer in a year what cpu would you choose?

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Hi, I'm trying to determine if my power supply in my acer P3 is stuffed or if it's something else. I have some pentium's lying around and want to move all of the components except the power supply from the P3 to the pentium. I would have tried it already …

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I'm trying to set up a new 2003 server for the school and expected just ot have to install server 2003 but I think I need to do some preliminary setting up. Power on has: Broadcom NetXtreme Ethernet Boot Agent v7.0.1 Copyright (C) 2003 Broadcom Corporation All rights reserved. Press …

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Ok, i build my own computer: ASUS p4800SE mobo HT p4 3.0GHz 800FSB HT w/heatsink 1 GB PC3200 RAM 80GB Seagate 7200RPM Onboard LAN 2x80mm fans and my POWER SUPPLY is 550w power magic psu! My computer has been running for about almost a week and everything was running fine …

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What if your motherboard dies? What happens to everything else connected to it? Will it still work if I replace a new motherboard??

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Hello. My system will freeze when It hits windows right after I install the drivers for my Radeon 9600 Pro video card. I then have to enter safemode to remover the drivers and the system will run. I put a Nividia gforce 2 old card back in for now. I …

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If I would have a motherboard with four RAM slots and would like to setup two identical memory sticks so they can run in dual channel, would they have to be installed in specific slots? Thanks

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I have decided amd 939 board and a seagate w/ncq hard drive. How can I find a board that supports this?

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I am running windows ME, on a computer i think is a hp (label is gone) that we got from wal-mart in 1999. Now your prolly saying screw the RAM get a new computer. Enless I am wrong an RAM is cheaper. Anyways i know my way around the software …

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Is it possible (at least [I]practically[/I]) to take the motherboard out of a computer made by a big company (HP, Dell, etc) and transfer that into a custom case without any major difficulty? What would be involved in doing that? Are there only certain size cases that would work, and …

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[i]Massive font tags removed ^_^ - [b]Daniweb Moderators[/b][/i] The other day I was going to set up my laptop on the table, but it accidentally slid from my hand (3 inches away from table). Now the laptop is not working at all, it won’t turn on and it won’t charge. …

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The other day I was going to set up my laptop on the table, but it accidentally slid from my hand (3 inches away from table). Now the laptop is not working at all, it won’t turn on and it won’t charge. Does anyone have any idea on what could …

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I have a amd 2400 cpu. My computer is starting to freeze when playing games. In the bios I noticed the cpu temp. ranges from 65 to 72 deg. C CPU fan speed 4100 rpm. My other computer is amd 2200. cpu temp 34 deg. cpu fan speed 6200 rpm. …

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Is my computer pretty decent? is it on the high-end or low-end? Windows XP Service Pack 2 450 Watt PSU AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Socket 754 Gigabyte GA-K8NS 1GB RAM DDR 400 PC 3200 256 MB ATI Radeon 9600 400 mhz core Samsun 80 GIG hard drive 7200 RPM Gigabyte …

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Hey, im rallying all the hardware together for when I build my new computer, check out all this hardware and tell me what you think. Also tell me if there is a mismatch of hardware, or something im missing, here goes: Case =ASPIRE X-Infinity Black ATX Mid-Tower Case with 350W …

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Lost power while in bios, now when power is applied to pc, activity light blinks once (before power on button is even pushed) and fans start, but thats it! Is there a way to default bios? Ie., jumper, removing battery??? Win 98 SE, Emachines Etower 400

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I recently thought that I had a hard drive problem because when I went in and did dskchk it said it had errors. I did a fix but the problem still existed. Many times when I would reboot it would take me to the safe mode, start normally page. Sometimes …

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My Motherboard is a Jetway V266B and in the manual it says it can support DDR (PC2100) RAM [url]http://www.jetway.com.tw/evisn/product/amd/v266b/v266b.htm[/url] Can I put DDR 400Mhz (PC3200) Memory in it? I went to a website to check out ram and they seemed to think it could. I will upgrade most of my …

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I have recently upgraded to a flat panel monitor. Since the upgrade my monitor will go to a black screen every once so often if I am playing a dvd, reviewing photos/graphics, etc. I’m thinking that my “aging

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I have a Microstar K7 Pro / MS6195 mother board, can anyone tell me the max. amount of RAM per socket?

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Image cut off, fan speeds in this order: CPU Fan, System Fan [IMG]http://www.oddworldz.com/alittleodd/web_image/computertemp.jpg[/IMG] Umm... is this an issue? I decided to check my computer's temperature after recently having frequent crashes. A friend told me it might be a heating issue. I checked this through my BIOS as my computer was …

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Hi guys, I have a Samsung P28 Laptop with a Li-Ion battery.Is it safe to leave it plugged into the mains even when the battery is fully charged?Would it harm the system in anyway?I was told that the battery will automatically stop charging when it's full.Is this true?I appreciate the …

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Hi all, just a quickie, What is a Sleeve bearing Fan and a Ball Bearing fan? i have 1 each of these, so whats better? whats the difference? i seem to think ball bearing is better cos ive seen it more but im not at all sure anybody fill me …

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Can I use pc4200 on a motherboard that supports pc3200--in other words--when the specs say pc3200, does that mean [I]minimum [/I] pc3200?

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Ok, I was reading in PC gamer magazine's "pc bulding bible" and they say that amd 64 processor are incredibly fast, but there are no windows compatible versions coded to take advantage of amd's 64 bit technology. So everything is running at 32 bits and then I see an advertisement …

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Hello all. Great site, wish I had of discovered it earlier. I have recently reformated my pc and I ran into a problem. After reinstalling the o/s I then tried to install my chipset drivers. I ended up with a corupt display. It looked like I was looking through a …

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I currently purchased the following devices to build my new PC and am havin alot of trouble tring to connect. ASUS P5AD2-E Mother board Wester Digital WD2000 Serail ATA HD with SATA connection PLEXTOR PX-716A cd/dvd ATAPI drive IDE I will not be using any of the RAID fuctions. I …

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I just changed my mother board and keep getting this error. Any thoughts? This is a continuation from the last thread about windows 2000 installation problems last weekend.

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Hi all, a friend of mine has had a new Dell for about 4months and for the 2nd time now it simply wont start up absolutely nothing happens wen she presses the button. I hate it when it happens because i feel kinda helpless as to what-to-do ive tried unplugging …

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A few days ago i heard about Overclocking, i've understood that it makes your CPU etc. run faster. But that this might overheat the chip and reduce its lifetime. Other than this i don't anything about it, i've heard that it can be dangerous if you don't know what your …

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I have an annoying problem with application hangs. I'm running xp sp2 AMD Duron 1.33 ghz.,km-266 8735 chipset, 40 gig hard drive and 512 DDR mem. The problem is most noticable on music and video playback but all programs stop momentarily and then restart from that point with no loss …

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1. I don't have any special concern, but I was just wondering if my system/computer is overheated? 2.Is there any way of checking this out? 3.And what is the recommended temperatur for a regular system. I don't have any additional cooling/fans, only the ones that came with the system as …

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