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Right now I currently have a P4 2.4 GHz processors with an MSI 648F Neo motherboard, and a GeForceFX 5600 graphics card, and 2 sticks of 512 dual channel. My motherboard recently died along with a stick of my ram. Which mother board should I go with, an Asus P4S800D-X …

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I am sure there are some that will disagree with me but hopefully there is someone who can understand why I have resorted to this. This is a little embarassing, but I am confident that I am not the only person who has been victim to this. I purchased a …

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hello! to every one im a new member here. i want ask maybe somebody can help me i upgrade my computer memory and when i put back the power cord in my computer i heard a sound bzzzz.. and after my computer wont turn on. no power at all. i …

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Just got a used XFX nf24-ALH motherboard with Athlon 2400 CPU. What type of PC2700-333 Memory do I buy? No Help at Crucial or Kingston sites. No Manual for Board and no longer listed at XFXorce.com

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OK so here goes. I just git rid of a networkable printer, it was old and not working... the toner part malfuntioned. Anywho, I slavaged a sitck of 64 meg ram from it. The lable reads as following 64 MB, SYNCH, 100Mh, CL2 there is a silver text on the …

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I'm putting together a new computer. Nothing is installed in the case yet except for the PSU. I have an ATRIX case that has a built in multifunctional PC temperature controller display and clock. I want to power the PSU up to test the voltages and to power up the …

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I have GA 81865GME motherboard ....... I was using nvidia mx 4000 gfx card...... is fx 5200 a better option ......wil my mother board support fx 5200

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i had some problems, suspected that cooling was a factor. so I got the Speedfan software, and all but one of the labels for the temperature readings were foreign to me, except the one labelled 'HD0 (250.1 GB)'. this is also the only reading I get that is consistently high …

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3 questions 1: What is overclocking? 2: What does it help? 3: How to do it... I have ATI tray tools and there is a overclockin meny in it but I don't have the courage :) to do it becouse I know it can mess up a computer very bad …

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Hi ppl. I am experianced PC user, built my own machine (among others) and have a Q for all the hardware experts, gurus and their mentors. Hmm.. make that ALMOST expirianced. There are alot of "unknowns" to me, especially when it comes to memory settings. The manual description is short …

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In the manual for the motherboard I have, it says to make sure to connect the chassis fan connector to CHA_FAN1 if using a dual core CPU. Well the CPU I have is dual core, but I don't see any chassis fan or connector. Do I have to purchase another …

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A bought i used laptop and i open it and everything was fine. I put in a wireless card and got on the internet with no problem. I close it out and wrap it up for my young daughter for christmas. When use open it and turn it on a …

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I just bought a new power supply for a new computer I'm building, it's a MIOS 500 watt. The person who sold it to me said that it had several SATA power connectors ( I didn't look in the box :-( ) When I got home and opened the box …

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My Pismo just died. Does anyone make a case so that I can canabilize my superdrive so that I can use it w/ another laptop (MacBook Pro)?

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I've been looking at processors for sale recently, and I've noticed a spec I don't understand, "Virtualization Technology Support." The answer is always Yes or No, but no explanation is given. Could someone please explain how Virtualization is supported by the CPU and what determines whether or not that CPU …

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alright, so just yesterday, my pc totaly screwed up, like, i didnt know what was wrong, but thats not the problem, i recently bought 2 pc3200 512 ddr ram cards to install along with my two preinstalled 256 ddr ram cards, trust me, there the same type of card, anyways, …

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I asked a question in another thread about bumping the PIII on an old Socket 370 board, but I'm also considering moving on up to a 478 board and going to a Celeron CPU. Let's say I ditch the old PIII and old Socket 370 board with only 100mhz FSB. …

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I only recently read that Intel changed attributes of the Pentium 3 three times or so during it's life. I entered the real laptop realm only this year with Dell's 5 year old C600 on up series, and that uses a 550 to 700 Speedstep on up to 1GHz. When …

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I just bought a new MSI KN NEO4 mboard. It does not have a jp2 for the speaker and power led. It has jp1 for the other leds. I checked the manual and there is supposed to be a jp2. I looked closley and there are small solder dots where …

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I have a 845-series intel board. used to work absolutely fine till two days back. Now, out of the 6, only 1 USB port works - as in, if i connect my usb drive, it will light up - showing that it has got power, but it doesn't show up …

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hi this is Ashwin from New Delhi, India. Recently my computer went for repairs & my RAM got reduced from 512 to 384.I had 2 x 256 MB DDR. When I asked the computer guy about it, he said that my old RAM had got spoilt and its now showing …

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Hi there, I've a got a question Im in the market to get new ram for my laptop (Compaq Presario V2000) it has two slots which both have 256 PC 2700 333MHz chips in them. Now I had an offer to buy two 512 PC 3200 chips... am I able …

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i currently own a Gateway 450ROG with a pentium M 1.5ghz 1mb cache i m pretty sure it is running at 400MHZ FSB, and am really interested in upgrading the processor to something faster, say a 2000ghz Pentium M i am just wondering will my laptop support a processor upgrade>? …

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Ok so i ahve 2 diff laptops (well one is my moms) that are used in different ways and I am trying to find out whether I should be powering off/hibernatin/stand by to best prolong the life. Another thing is i have been told it is best to let the …

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Hi all, need your help my pc was running smoothly until two days ago; then suddenly the monitor won't respond after the power up checked the monitor, it's still working when connected to my laptop opened the PC: mobo power LED, checked; cpu fan running, checked; psu fan running, checked; …

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hey guys, im looking into overclocking my sempron 2500+ (1750mhz, max core speed 2200mhz) heres the problem, my motherboard, asus A7S8X-MX does not have any option to change core speed in the bios, and the jumper settings are very limited. i need something like softFSB but for XP. i ideally …

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A few months after i got my new Dell dimension 8400 it started going crazy every time i would play a game on it or just run a few big programs. I tried cleaning out the back and even opening the case and cleaning what i could but i can …

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hii , i have an asus a7v400 - MX board ,2600 XP athlon , 512mb ram , 64 mb nvidia video card .. the problem is that the comp is not starting .. it shows the green light (power ) on the motherboard ... but when i press the power …

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I have 2 DELL PCs OPTIPLEX 270 and had problems with the motherboards. It was fine the last time i used it, but suddenly, when i checked, the motherboard alco were burnt (small burnt bubble), what could be the cause? Should i have the motherboard fix or should i buy …

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