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i installed an ati rage II video card in a e-tower 300 the system devices shows it is working, but when i plug the monitor into the connector i get nothing at the monitor the monitor will work when plugged into the connector on the motherboard i had previously formatted …

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Hi all,this will be my first Thread so here it goes.i have a XFX Nvidia Geforce 6800GT video card and it will not play Max Payne 2,i have installed new drivers and directx c and it will not load past the still shots intro all this card is living up …

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Okidoky, so, I have a Powercolor Radeon 9550 se with catalyst version 4.x (I'm not 100% sure). Anyway, I got a DVD with a gaming magazine which had Catalyst version 5.6. I decided to install it, and all was fine, until a few minutes later when clicking on a certain …

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Hi there! I'm new here. My problem: I have a Compaq Deskpro-EN PIII-550 10GB-HD 192MB-RAM WinXP Pro When I install a PCI Firewire host adapter (3x 6pin external/1x 6pin internal) my computer will no longer POST. powers up, fans on, can hear HD spin up, but then that's it, no …

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Hi, I need some help with a computer my friend let me have. They had lightning strike and the only thing they noticed was the power buttons led wasnt working, but after a while the whole thing went dead. They took it to a company that charged them $80 to …

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Alright now. I have a P4 3.0ghz processor with a Asus p4p800 Deluxe mobo, 1gb of ocz ram, a GeforceFX 5950 ultra, audigy 2 zs platium pro, wireless netgear g adaptor, floppy drive, cd-rw drive and a dvd drive. I havent changed anything recently but my computer will turn on …

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I recently tried to install a 6600GT video card, but got no POST, no mouse, nothin'. Here's the [URL=http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread30691.html]thread[/URL]. I RMA'd the card, but in the meantime, I read that one of the fixes for the problem I had was to reinstall Windows XP. I don't want to unless I …

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I will try to make this as short as possible. I bought a new flat screen monitor (Samsung) for my Dell desktop. When I hooked it, the computer comes on and starts to hum along, but the LED light on the monitor starts to flash. Called Samsung and they told …

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Hi, I am having troubles geting my new system working. here is the situation. The bunlde i got was the GIGABYTE GA-K8NF-9 N + AMD 3200 64 BIT + 512 DDR + a 500W ATX power supply and case. Using current video card Radeon 9800 pro. The problem is i …

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Hi, I need some help with a computer my friend let me have. They had lightning strike and the only thing they noticed was the power buttons led wasnt working, but after a while the whole thing went dead. They took it to a company that charged them $80 to …

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Hello everyone got a small problem with xp pro s2 maybe? Ok I built this pc about year and half ago and loaded it with Windows xp pro s1. The other day the lady gives me a call and says aol want connect it goes so far and stops. When …

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I have recently been putting a computer together. I started it as a barebones system and it worked fine, got through POST. I added my cd drive, and it would get through the IDE check, then the computer would shut itself off, but the LED light on the Mother board …

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I have a sony 19 inch lcd. My machine is built by myself and was running fine untill 3 days ago i was viewing a video on media player and the picture froze up on me. i tried to reboot the machine and nothing came up on the screen but …

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i need some help with a pci card i just bought. i am not exactly all knowledgable when it comes to computers, so ill try to explain this the best i can. i bought a geforce 5200 fx pci card to put in a new computer i just got. i …

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I put in the CPU , and the computer powered up but the monitor we nt into sleep mode right away.Fans work, cdrom light comes on , no hard drive light , no floppy light. ( BEEPS ) Beep- beep,beep,beep. BEEP all sound alike , short beeps. so i guess …

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ok when i play wc3 my cpu freezes... this never happen for a long long time... before when i had a geforce 4 mx 440 it freezes but i switch it to geforce fx 5200 and it didn't freeze but lately it starting to freeze again... i wonder is it …

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Hi Folks Recently I've been getting a problem where whenever I try and run video from desktop, whether it be from media player, realplayer, quicktime etc. the computer near freezes up and I get 98-99% cpu usage on whichever player I'm running. This happens with video being displayed in websites …

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I recently assembled a computer and installed windows xp home edition (32bit) for media purposes. I already have another computer at home with XP 64 pro but I have been experiencing so many problems with my drives that I just decided to build the other computer. I am using a …

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Hello everybody... I need help, I have asked my tech support and they doesn't seem to have a solution... :eek: I've bought a PC with an AMD 64 bits processor and a serial ATA hard disk, Windows XP SP1 installed. The problem is that most of the times it takes …

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I have an AMD64 set up with an ASUS MB. My 15 year old son was playing Diablo II and he said weird noises came out of the speakers, and then the PC crashed. It will not boot up now. The CPU fan and video card and Hard Drive all …

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I have a soyo kt600 mobo amd athlon 2500+ cpu w/heatsink 2 ddr ram @ 256mb and a ATI radeon video card PCI slot. everything turns on, but nothing on display will not post. mobo light turns on and is solid. ps everything is new I also have a pcchips …

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Alright, I installed Linux 8.2 SuSE just to see what it was capable of and such. I did not like what I had and some hardware was not compatable so I reinstalled windows by deleting the old Linux partition and reinstalling. After I did this everything booted very slowly. Even …

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I posted a few days back in the video card area, asking if I'd need a new PSU, but doing my own research, I'm convinced I do. The question is, exactly what? I'm a noob to this mod thing, but I've been told that replacing a power supply isn't all …

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Ok, I know my Video card pretty much sucks already. What I need to find out, however, is how much MB it is. On the stat sheet with my comp it doesn't tell and I can't find out how to tell either. The card is a Integrated Intel 3D AGP …

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My son wants to play "World of Warcraft". What video card would be sufficient. I have 256 mb ram, 15 gb hd, etc. Could someone plese give me some advice?

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I'm just about to rebuild my PC and have been told that my 300W Antec might not be powerful enough for my new build. I've had no problems with my Antec, but a friend tells me that they're not as good anymore. I would greatly appreciate some information on current …

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I am going to be setting up dual montors on my pc. Right now I have a video card that is built directly into the motherboard. Is it possible to achieve dual monitors by adding a single input pci graphics card, or would I need to go to a dual …

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Hello everybody... I need help, I have asked my tech support and they doesn't seem to have a solution... :eek: I've bought a PC with an AMD 64 bits processor and a serial ATA hard disk, Windows XP SP1 installed. The problem is that most of the times it takes …

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Okay I just went and spent about 1400$ on all these computer parts and when I put them togather I got nothing. My fans would run and my LED lights and CD drive light would blink on for about a second then everything would turn off. I fiddled around with …

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[COLOR=Magenta]How do you determine which one you have....PCI or APG.....If my resource summary says PCI bus...does that mean I get a PCI video card?[/COLOR] :-|

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I'm getting a series of artifacts in my text, especially within Explorer and IE. It happens in other apps too, but strangly, the problem doesnt' seem to affect Mozilla. It's too hard to explain what I'm talking about, so here's a screenshot. The upper left paragraph shows it really well. …

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First of all, please forgive this long post. I want to give details of my dilema, in hopes of getting an accurate response from someone who might be able to help. I posted this originally in the Win XP forum, with little or no input on the problem. I am …

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I am replacing an old Nvidia GeForce video card with a new Nvidia Geforce card (5200LE). The old one works fine, but I can't get the computer to recognize the new one. There is no picture on the monitor and nothing seems to happen at all. I tried removing the …

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Computer: eMachines W2260 AMD Athlon 2200+ 1.80 GHz 256 DDR RAM Current Video Adapter: S3 Graphics ProSavageDDR. Is permanently attached to the motherboard. Attempting to Install: ATI Diamond Stealth S120 Radeon 9550 AGP Version I have installed the card and its drivers but the computer won't accept it as the …

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ok, my friend gave me a laptop to try and work on, as im decently good at fixing computers(desktops :-/ ), the screen is so dim that you can barely see it, so, first solution i think of, replace the inverter card, so i go and buy a new inverter, …

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I have asus's new sli board and an enermax 600w sli power suply. 1 stick of 512 ddr and a nvida 7800 gtx video card and amd's 64 3000. Ihave checked all the connections more times than i can count, they all seam to be in place. The problem i …

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I installed that flat out game and i loaded the update and the graphics looked like crap. I thought it was just with that game but gta / call od duty and all my others games looked messed up. So i formatted my pc and thought it would of fixed …

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Hello and thank you very much in advance for the help: I am running Windows ME and just had to get it re-installed through Gateway tech support. Now my icons are large and everything seems perferated. A friend mentioned it could be the drivers associated with the video card or …

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First off, here's my system: MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum AMD 64 3200+ 939-Socket 4x Kingston 512MB DDR-400 PC-3200 Sony DVD 16X Western Digital 120GB Serial ATA Radeon X800 XL/Nvidia MX 4000 My case is from compusa and is a generic ATX case with a 400 watt power supply (which was …

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Hey guys. I bought this computer two years ago. It was mediocre, but i never had problems. About a year later, I upgraded to be able play high end games. It runs near-perfect on almost all games, but it developed a flaw, and it is becoming more and more frequent …

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Hello and thank you very much in advance for the help: I am running Windows ME and just had to get it re-installed through Gateway tech support. Now my icons are large and everything seems perferated. A friend mentioned it could be the drivers associated with the video card or …

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[font=Times New Roman][size=3]Computers are getting cheaper - but so are computer parts. You can often save money by assembling one yourself to suit your own needs, and it doesn't have to look like Frankenstein's monster. It's also a great way to learn more about how computers actually work - although …

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I have a computer that when I turn it on (with everything but ram removed) I get a single cursor that flashes. When I but the ati video card in all I get is a message that shows the bios type(I think). The motherboard is and intel D815EEA. I have …

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I'm having trouble getting my board to post. I have power to everything and believe all the drives are connected correctly, but it will not boot up. I've cleared the CMOS several times, but still nothing. Symptoms: The CD/DVD drives only have power when the IDE cables are not connected. …

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Hi there My norton keeps alerting me to the above trojan. So far I have tried: deleting the file from where I am told it is located C:\WINDOWS\ but it cannot be found even with hidden files shown. ending the process in task manager but cannot see it. locating it …

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I have an IBM Thinkpad T40 type 2374. On power up, the screen shows the IBM logo, then get black with small horizontal lines close to the bottom screen. When window is running, it shows fuzzy vertical strips, shadow like across the screen. When I switch the screen on/off, sometime …

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My ATI 9700 AIW video card has started to fill the screen with artifacts. The artifacts are on the splash screen, windows XP logon screen and after WinXP has loaded. Sometimes are worse than others, occasionally though less frequently now the screen is almost clear. So far I've cleaned the …

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I don't know if I'm in the right place or not...but I want to change the video card in my computer but have no idea how to go about this....can anyone help???? Thank you! :rolleyes:

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Hey all, i have a important question. Okay so i updated my graphics card recently to a NX6600GT AGP. I install the most recent drivers, games run good, everything seems fine.... I try to open a video file and the player starts using 99% of my CPU and no video …

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I have Dell Dimention 4600 series, Intel Pentium 4 Processor at 2.8GHz, NVidia GeForce FX 5200 graphics card, Windows XP Home Edition. I have had this system for about a year. I downloaded Service Pack 2 (which has DirectX 9.0c on it). I downloaded the latest upgrade for NVidia graphics …

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