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I currently have a Dell XPS Gen 3 that didn't come with SATA capability so I needed to add a SATA PCI card. I chose a SIIG 4 port SATA controller that is working fine. I am using my original hard drive still as my main "c" drive. When I …
I just purchased all the necessaries to build a new PC. Case, Mobo, CPU, DVD Burner, 320 GB Hardrive, Video Card, all that jazz. The problem isn't the hardware, the problem is the initial install. When I installed windows xp 64bit pro, and the mobo drivers, everything works although, i …
Hey, My computer is about 5 months old and and I have had the problem of games freezes, unexpected reboots, distorted graphics on startup (forcing me to re-boot using the rest buttton), I get messages when exiting internet explorer sometimes "Unable to terminate process" something like that. Pc probe temps; …
Howdy, I am a novice linux user, who recently tried to configure my wireless cards to work on a dual boot system of opensuse 10.2 and winxp. The problem: Suse 10.2 fails to boot correctly after the configuration of my wireless cards. After GRUB loads, it doesn't matter if I …
hi i have an intel d915gvwb mother board..it has a pci express x1 slot and 3 pci slots..today i found that above the 3 pci slots i found some tiny holes like the one provided to insert some extension slot on the board...and above it was marked "pci express x16",is …
hi everybody, just needed to ask this: I have an older pc with a newer agp graphics card. It plays games relatively fast. I got a new computer for christmas and it has a pci-e card slot with an onboard(256 mb nvidia geforce 6100) that dosent run anywhere near 256mb. …
I am going to build a pc with the following spec: Intel 3.06GHz Celeron Processer Foxconn P4M8907MA-RS2H mATA motherboard 400w X-Power ATX PSU NVIDIA GeForce 7100GS 265MG Graphics Card USB 2.0 4-Port PCI Card 160GB 7200 IDE HDD All Format Dual Layer DVDRW Silver Dial ATX case 3.5in Floppy Disk …
So I keep getting this BSOD, it flashs too quicky to get any other info oscreen except this. DRIVER_IRQL_LESS_THAN_OR_EQUAL But the story goes a little deeper. Yesterday I got a message from ATI control center that said the GPU (Radeon x1600 512, PCI express) had been reset, I shut off …
hey guys, im new to this forum. ok the problem is i have a Sony VAIO RB53 desktop computer and i want to get a decent video card for my pc (not a fan of integrated video card). After using AIDA32, i finally found out the model of my motherboard, …
My Dell 8200will not boot into windows.When I go into setup it says that the hard disk and the cd-rom are not installed. Can someone tell me what is wrong and how to fix it. It is aDell 8200 with 5120Mb Pc 800 RdRam, 80GB EIDE hard drive(7200 RPM),PCI Ethernet …
I'm building a new pc from scratch and would like to have a sound card this time around becuase on board sound is really not getting louad enough and the sound quality is horrible. I was looking around and noticed that sound cards have less channels than the onboard sound.. …
Here is my plan to install a HighPoint RocketRaid PCI card and a 160 GB SATA drive on my Winows XP2/Linux Fedora 5 PCI I have created a Linux boot floppy with the contents below: /media/floppy/bios/Load.exe 72.0KB 7/20/2005 /media/floppy/bios/r152x101.s6e 28.0 KB 7/ 2/2004 /media/floppy/bios/Readme.txt 1.8 KB plain text document 7/20/2005 …
have got a creative labs sound card installed, loaded drivers but still no sound when i go to souds in c/panel the volume part is greyed out can anyone help
I am hoping to speed up my PC by installing a faster IDE Controller -- my system (see below) came with an ATA-33, various posts have recco'd I go to a an ATA-100 for speed. A few Questions: [LIST=1] [*]Will this approach work? [*]Will it speed up the system? [*]See …
i hv D815EEA mainboard with P3 and windows 2000,i m nt sure whether i hv pci slot on my mainboard or nt.in the device manager i can see this: [url]http://img266.imageshack.us/my.php?image=untitledir9.png[/url] i want to install nic card,pls also temme is there any special make of nic that wil work or any …
Hi, I am planning to buy Vista 32 bit Ultimate edition in some time. I have been looking around for a good set of hardware forthis new os and here is the one that I like which is a motherboard from Asus. Asustek M2V AM2 VIAK8T890 [URL]http://www.asus.com.tw/products.aspx?l1=3&l2=101&l3=305&model=1171&modelmenu=2[/URL] Now I also …
I am looking for a fanless vid card. I have checked newegg and found several. What makes a vid card good? I don't do much gaming but a little. Nothing too extreme though. The biggest thing I do is a lot of video editing and my wife likes to watch …
I am very confuse about my system. I have recently bought MSI Radeon 9800pro 128Mb (RX9800pro TD-128). My system spec is Intel celeron D 2.4GHz (256kb chace) MSI Motherboard AGP 4x. 300W powersupply. 512Mb Kingstone DDR 400 bus I am not getting good performance from my card. I instaled the …
I like to run my games at the right settings. I usually run my games at 1024x768 and all the settings are at its highest. I got a new computer and the card i had in the old one was agp. My new computer has 2 pci express slots. This …
I have a windows XP laptop that is relatively new however when I attach my wifi toggle it tells me it's connecting at usb 1 and can run faster. When I've checked my host controller for said usb port is enhanced but I can't seem to find any drivers that …
HI, Will a 8800 gt bottleneck my 3000+ amd socket 754 cpu? Should i just go for the cheap graphic card?
Hello All....Newbie here‚ I am trying to get a video card for my Dell Dimension 2400. Under the hood it's got a Pentium 4 processor, 768 MB RAM and a crummy Intel(R) 82845G video controller....This is what I need to upgrade. I've put in a ATI Radeon 9250 (512MB) video …
Hi. I'm new here and I joined to see if I can get help with the following question. If you guys have any answers for me on which I should do, please try to be really detailed and not be extremely technical with your answers, because I'm not a big …
I have everything for my new computer except for the sound card. I was looking to buy the Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Music card. [url]http://www.canadacomputers.com/index.php?do=ShowProduct&cmd=pd&pid=008511&cid=SC[/url] I was looking at it tonite and realized that this card dosen't have a headphone jack. I find this odd because my older Soundblaster Live …
Hello. the problem is: - I connect to the Internet wireless only if I put a Cable between the router and my Laptop, is the only way the Pc accept the card. After I take the cable and stay connected. But if I shut down or restart, it freezes and …
Hey folks, I am using a PCI video card now 'cuz my AGP MAY be fried. I have a QUICK question here - if an AGP port is fried, will AGP video cards still work to some degree, or will it just be a black screen? I installed a GeforceMX …
Model Brand VisionTek Model VTK-THMCE550P Specifications Video Decoder ATI Theater 550 Pro ASIC TV Tuner Yes FM Tuner Yes Remote Control Yes Interface PCI Video Format Hardware MPEG2 Encoding Operating Systems Supported Microsoft Windows XP SP2 or XP Media Center Edition System Requirements Intel Pentium 4 or Celeron, AMD Athlon …
Hello all, Thanks for the welcome, and I hope I will be able to help someone someday also. My friend called me to come and help her get her computer cd rom running again, which I tried all the disks she had for drivers, to no avail, so I swapped …
Hi People. I have been reading similar problems to mine and have not been able to find a solution. Perhaps someone will remember a solution I was unable to find or perhaps shed light on a new solution. Here is my Comp Specs: 1.5gb ddr ram (2chips: 1g, 512mb) Asus …
Hi! Today I installed win 98 on an old computer. And after i succeeded to install win, I tryed to go on internet. Ok, it doesn't work. And there is a problem. I have another computer in the network (this), and both are connected to router. The problem is, that …
Foxconn motherboard 6617mx-s P4 3Ghz [URL="http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/products/a561x1y0z1p0s0n0m0"][COLOR=#006699]processor[/COLOR][/URL] Easy computers 450W PSU 2 x Maxtor 80GB [URL="http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/products/a502x1y0z1p0s0n0m0"][COLOR=#006699]hdd[/COLOR][/URL] 1GB Ram PCI Belkin Firewire card Philips PBDV1640P Dual Layer DVD Writer Novatech PCI/IDE controller card NOV-ATA133 XP home My knowledge- average. The system worked fine until the power supply failed. I replaced it, and …
I had to change the mobo in my comp...also formatted the hard drive and went back with win98 SE....and then the fun began..i had no controllers ...i still need a pci ethernet controller and pci communication device.....i got a new ethernet card and a new modem...and it still will not …
Hi.(I'm not bad in computers, but i can't solve dis problem).Problem is: i need help with installing those #$*!!! cards on following "machine": P-MMX 200MHz CPU A-trend ATC-5000 mobo intel TX430B Chipset (4 EDO RAM, 2 SDRAM, 3 ISA, 4 PCI, no agp) Diamond Stealth II S220 (Rendition Verite 2100) …
Can you purchase a PCI video card or do they only sell PCIe?
Hi I have a MSI motherboard (ms1699va) and it seems to be causing problems with the PCI card (belkin 10/100BT Ethternet). 1. In Device Manager there is no driver for PCI Simple Communicatons Controller 2. When I try to load the driver for the PCI card, there is an error …
[B]I want to get a new graphic card for my Tulip Vision Line DT 5/120. The Memory type in the computer is Edo (Simm). I think the the graphic card type is PCI but I am not sure if the graphic card can have DDR ram or SDRAM etc, I …
problem is i live in NJ. A friend of mine asked for my help and its hard to do over the phone. Couple of weeks ago he had a power surge, since then he gets error msg no dial tone when he logs on. (now i don't know much about …
xp pro on PC linksys wrt54gs wireless router cnet pro200wl pci fast ethernet adapter Wireless connection between the rest of the PCs/laptops in the house works perfectly. Just recently, the wired connection with configuration listed above, has failed to work. If connected to the modem directly internet access is available. …
When I turned my computer on this morning I got a message saying 'found new hardware'. The hardware it found was a the [COLOR=black]ethernet[/COLOR] [COLOR=black]controller[/COLOR]. I tried to install drivers for it but none of them would work. I bought a new [COLOR=black]ethernet[/COLOR] PCI card (Nexxtech 10/100) and replaced the …
Hi i have a big dilema,my laptop is a dell inspiron and everthing is built in,i have never had any real probs but all of a sudden my sound car has disappeared my computer says i dont have one strange because i do in there somwhere and could hear my …
Hello I have bought a barebones pc fpr christmas but am not aloud it until christmas. It comes with[COLOR=#0000ff] [COLOR=black]Intel E6600 Core2Duo Heatsink and Fan, 1024mb DDR2 667 Ram, MSI Intel 975X PCI Express Motherboard. so I purchased a graphics card but am now wondering will the power suply in …
[COLOR=#000000]Hello. I am having a problem with a PC I am working on for a friend of my sisters. It is an old [/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]Gateway E-1400[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]PIII processor[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]16MB TNT2 PCI Graphics card[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]256MB RAM[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]15GB HDD[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]I know this is an old PC but it was given to him …
Hey im making a MythTV box and the biggest concern that I am having is whether or not the capture card will work so I thought someone might know here. Im thinking about putting it ontop of ubuntu first off mainly because I want a full operating system and knoppmyth …
Hi everyone As a newbie I've been referred here from the introductions page and I want to know what GFX card to get for my PC. I've just inherited some money and am getting a spec together for a high-end dual core PC (I've never owned a PC before), with …
I am new to this forum. I am trying to Install Maxtor Diamond Max 10 100 GB SATA 150 HDD on my old AMD 756 motherboard using VIA Vt6421 SATA PCI adapter. I installed PCI driver and my operating system (2000) recognizes it as Raid card. The problem I am …
I purchased an SB Audigy2 zs gamer last year for my homebuilt system, and I am pleased with it up till this point. (I did not get the version with the "breakout" IO box) it is just a stand alone card. My problem is, now I want to use ventrilo …
First off, I have been lurking around here for a little while now and I have found alot of really useful info here. So don't flame me if I don't know certain things about my computer. I had to have help from my nephew to do some things on it. …
Recently I bought a [URL="http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=2268595&Sku=TSD-320AS"]320gig SATA hard drive[/URL] from Tiger Direct. My computer, a Dell Dimension 4600 had a 40gig ATA, but anymore it just does not have enough space, and I'm having problems with it... So I figured it was time to upgrade. Knowing that my mobo does not …
I have a big porblem here. When I install my new video-208 PCI video card (128 mb), my computer doesn't boot up ( well it does boot up but everything is black) I have another PCI video card, but that came with this computer, and i t has the port …
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