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If I start a game, let's say COD4 for example, I can play that game perfectly for maybe 1-2 minutes MAX before the framerate suddenly drops through the floor and it's almost unbearable. If I close the game, the frame rate for everything is very poor - scrolling down pages …

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hello, I have problems when i start some games. I basically CAN'T play the following games i own warcraft 3 the elder scrolls 3(morrowind) + all expansions(goty edition) unreal tournament 2003 unreal tournament goty edition grand theft auto 3 tremulous runescape HD(not low detail) pirate hunter rising kingdoms age of …

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Hi everyone, this is also my introductory post to this site, so my name is bill, and I am not what people call a computer Guru. I can make my way around things, but there are many far better then I. I have a problem with my Display/Monitor/Graphics Card. Not …

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Over the summer my computer developed a weird problem where it would turn on to a gray screen, turn off and turn back on, do that a few times till the logo finally came up. I did some troubleshooting, couldn't figure out what it was, and eventually it stopped happening. …

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Hi, hope someone can let me know what to do here... So, I just bought a new laptop for school and need it for architecture/modeling. I ended up with a vaio with an nvidia geforce go 7400 video card and (of course) loaded with vista home premium. The most important …

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Hi, I havea homebuilt computer, about 2 months old. It has been working perfectly until today. Build is as follows: XFX nForce 790i Ultra SLI Intel Core 2 Quad Q9450 LGA775 'Yorkfield' 2.66GHz OCZ 2GB DDR3 PC3-16000C9 2000MHz EVGA GeForce GTX 280 1024MB So I decide to play the L4D …

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Bought a new computer in May/08 and the blue screen crashes started in about a month. Yes its a NVidia driver GT 8500. I am running XP Pro, Clone system, Intel Quad Core Q6600, ASUS P5K-E WIFI Motherboard, 4GB of RAM, 500G HD, etc. with all the latest service pak …

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need help installing a radeon9250 pci card ,how do remove the video drivers,and update the motherboard,oh by the way i have a dell dimenssion 3000

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I need a video capture card with RCA plugs (S-video would be nice too) and audio capture capabilities. I don't want to digitize the video content so an analog Vid capture card is sufficient. The card has to be the highest quality possible. Herein lies the rub .... It has …

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Hiyas Warning.. not a strong tech background here. LOL So, I have been running here with 2 video cards, both are nVidia GeForce 7950 GT. I have it set up with dual monitors.. BUT with one card handling each monitor. I have loved this setup vs having one card power …

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i just installed winxp to try it out. and for some reason it hates my video card. the screen flickers and craps out. if i turn off hardware acceleration it works fine. i downloaded the new drivers for the card. it works great under win98, redhat 8, and slackware 7. …

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I am having trouble installing a new video card. My current build is an Epox EP-8HDA5+ mobo with an AMD Athlon 64 3000+ CPU and a ATI All-In-Wonder 9600 video card. I upgraded to an ATI x1300 512mb video card and on installing it I cant get a signal to …

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I realiize that this may not be the correct place to post this. I would appreciate someone pointing me in the proper direction. I have MS Flight Simulator X running under Vista Ultimate on a 2.2Gig core 2 duo with 3 gig of ram and an ATI Radeon X1350 256Meg …

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Last friday in the wee small hours, I heard my pc restart. I got up saturday morning and the computer was frozen up, I have no idea for how long. So I hit the reset button, and then nothing. It won't POST or anything. So, I reset the jumper, and …

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I'm trying to configure a dual monitor setup for my Dell Dimension E510 PC. (Running XP) When I look up the video card information, it displays " ATI Radeon x300/x550/x1050 series" (I can't find anything more specific). Currently, I have one VGA port and one DVI port on the back …

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Hi I was wondering if somebody could help me. I'm building a computer for the first time I have everything installed and connected in my case. I'm using motherboard: Asus P5QL PRO Processor: Intel Dual-Core 45nm, 6mb RAM: A-data DDR2 Power supply: 500w Video card: Asus 9500Gt TOP When I …

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The last time I use my p.c. it worked properly but when i used it earlier this afternoon, it runs but no display on the monitor and no beeps. I test the speaker of the motherboard and it is fine. So i concluded that my on board video graphics adapter/video …

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Hy guys! I have a Gigabyte GA-K8NF-9 (Rev.1) Motherboard. I had BIOS version F2 and i tried to flash it, so i downloaded the latest BIOS from the manufacturer (F11) and used the @BIOS app that comes with the motherboard. It started the update, but at 50% it gave-me an …

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Hi Im new here, I found this site when Im trying to find a solution to my problem. Anyway, please help me.. After windows loading screen, my computer shuts down. It turns on 20 seconds later. I can access safe mode though, Im in it right now. I can't see …

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I need some real tech help. I have this computer: [url]http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=4222249&CatId=3423[/url] Im looking to run 3 monitors, but I can not really figure what kind of video card to get to run the 2 additional monitors. All the differences between PCI express and x1 and x16 and all that is …

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After using my computer for a while (desktop) Explorer starts acting up and sometimes will crash and restart itself. By acting up, what usually happens is that when I open up a Window in Explorer parts of the menu might be missing, or not all of the window is painted, …

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ok every one this is a very sore subject for me. recently my computer started restarting during game play so reinstalled everything and not it freezes durning game play no restart. my video card idles at 61C and goes up to 74C while playing games never anything higher. its very …

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I have a Dell demension 4600 series that I got 4 years ago. The monitor has started flickering. I need to find out if the flickering is caused by the monitor or the video card.

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Ok i need help please. This is driving me insane. Here is what going from beginning. Processor fan went out on my motherboard so i shut computer off and waited for new one to arrive. Well i installed new one and then computer would not come back on. the power …

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Hello there! I'm trying to run C++ programs using OpenGL library on a machine with a nVidia video card. But... I'm getting this error message: nVidia OpenGL driver Driver component sizes mis-match. Retry to keep going. Cancel to exit. The same program runs smoothly on another computer with a very …

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I have a computer of a friend where there is no video when it starts up. He thinks that it has a virus on it but I am not able to see as I get no video capability on any of my monitors. I have reset the cmos by changing …

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Hi there. I'm new to this forum but not that new with computers. I've got a computer here and whenever I connect it all up to use, the monitor displays 'no signal'. However I plug a different machine into the same monitor and all is well. I have taken out …

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What is the good card for this computer (Athlon 3800+, 2gb RAM). P.S. My mainboard has free x16 PCIe slot. Thanks for replies.

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Hi! My PC does not boot but all fans are working(including video card), hard drive makes sound on start up, and so does optical drive. After turning on the PC the Hard drive LED lights up for quite some time. And I do not have to prolong pressing the power …

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TV not detected as secondary display device on laptop connected through S-Video to RCA adapter:(TV Out) I have a compaq presario V3070TU laptop connected through S-Video out to the RCA input of my TV (Samsung CS-29K44ME).Laptop has Intel 945 mobile chipset as graphics card. I am unable to get my …

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Hey All Glad to be apart.:) Need a little insight on a problem that is just driving me crazy. If this was covered previously - sorry. I have this one particular Machine, running on a Asus P5N-E NFORCE 650I SLI motherboard. The graphics card is the; XFX GEFORCE 7300LE, (x16 …

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I tried to search for answers to this problem on this forum and did not find any, so I am posting my question here. Please note that I am a novice user. I have a Compaq Nevo800v laptop computer running Windows XP. I am using a Compaq Wireless 110 LAN …

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Okay, Well I'm a totat idiot when it comes to hardware, can't tell good from bad, so I'll start out with my system info and that stuff.. I'm running WinXP.. Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 1.80 Ghz 510MB RAM Intel(R) 82845G/GL/GE/PE/GV Graphics Controller with approx. 64MB memory DAC Type: Internal I'll include …

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I'm still looking for help or another site recommendation for help on this. I'm trying to copy my dv cassettes to DVD. The cassettes are from a Canon FZ85 (A) Mini DV digital video recorder. I am running Win XP SP3 and have an Adaptec Firewire card running a Sony …

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I want to run a business and offer free broadband WiFi access to the internet for my customers. I use a Linksys WRT610N dual-N band wireless router and a DSL modem furnished by the telephone company and have a static IP address. I have several questions and would appreciate advice …

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PC powered down last night after 4 hours of inactivity, as it usually does. Went to start it up this morning. Case fans spin up, as does processor fan. Hard drive spins up. HDD LED is solid red. Absolutely no BIOS/POST/Start-up text on screen, and no error beeps. Completely blank …

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Hello everyone, I have an AGP 1.0 slot for my graphics card and need a new one. The problem is that I don't know what kind of graphics card would work with an AGP 1.0. Can I get one that says 4x/8x or not? Thanks, Nick

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dear all, once every too ofen the monitor becomes out of focus for long times. 2 - 3 hours. then comes back to normal. i have tryed refresh at 60 mghz, 70, 75....also tryed to download updated driver (did so - driver is aoc) and changed the specs of the …

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Hello all, I hope someone can help me with this predicament I'm having. Now, I could get all new parts to build a new machine, but I'm leaving for a job overseas in two weeks and it would not be worth it for me to fix a new machine at …

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Hello, I keep getting these warning messages in the details of the repaired permissions text whenever I run repair, which is often. Kind of worries me as I've never seen a warning in repair permissions. But I just switched to a new machine that came with Leopard. Mac Mini 1.83GHz …

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lately i have been experiencing 'freezing' problems with my computer, i have reason to believe it is a video card problem. what happens: i get one of two events happen, either the screen goes black and i get no input signal, or the computer freezes on a screen with a …

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I recently (in the past week) have moved to a new house. So, naturally, i brought my four computers. The computer having trouble worked perfectly fine last time I used it - last Friday (It's now Wednesday). I simply unplugged it and brought it to the new house and plugged …

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I have an old VHS camcorder connected to the vidoe input of a WinTV PCI card. I want to develop a simple program that will, at regular intervals, grab stills from that video source and save them to my hard drive. So far, I've been unable to find anything free …

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i got myself a big pile of components yesterday, an amd dual core procesor, a new motherboard (biostar ta770 a2+) and a new graphics card, nvidia(club3d geforce 9600gt overlocked). so now i've put it all together, the computer starts normally but i don't get any output on my monitor, the …

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Hi all, I'm new to this forum, but I was hoping somebody could point me in the right direction. I have a P4 system running Windows XP sp3 with a ATI Radeon 9200se card. After the last round of updates, my shutdown screen has the "Standby" button grayed out. After …

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I am trying to build a new computer. I will mostly be using it for gaming (RTS games, World of Warcraft, etc...). I have so far come up with a cpu and motherboard cpu: [URL="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103249"]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103249[/URL] motherboard: [URL="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131291"]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131291[/URL] The problem I am having is i don't really know anything about graphics …

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I bought a new PCIe video card for a Gateway GT5228 which is their media center model and nothing I did would make it work. Trying to see if it was a faulty card or a faulty slot or something I was missing ot make it work I decided to …

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Asus M2N-MX SE Plus mobo, AMD 64X+ 4400 dual core processor, 2G Patriot Dual Channel DDR2 RAM, 800W PSU, Geforce 9500 GT video card, Apevia case. Got it all put together, even went online to find a guide to the case (some use risers, I was sure to install them …

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I have an HIS Radeon HD2600PRO ICE-Q Video Card with a factory overclocked memory clock and core clock (650 core / 1050 "effective" memory clock). While digging through the ATI Catylist control center, i found ati overdrive over clocking utility. When i went in there, it gave me a warning …

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On windows XP you can change the login screen to show something else. Well I tried that and now when I boot up my splash screen comes on and then after it loads my screen goes black. You can't see anything nowhere to put your password in at.This is what …

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