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Sup folks, I'm new to your community and I'm hoping someone may have a little advice. I'm an above average user who has built several systems and done a lot of troubleshooting and repairs but this has me stumped. A friend asked me to help with an upgrade on his …

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I seem to be in a bind. I own a Dell computer which is a [LIST] [*]Dimension 2400 [*]Intel Peneum 4 prossessor with 2.66 GHz [*]768 Mb of RAM [*]250 Gb of hard drive[/LIST]I would like to upgrade my computer case for more of a air circulation swo all my …

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hello ppl actually i want to install a software which requires to change the system date back to 10yrs, but the BIOS setting is not allowing me to change the system date back to 10yrs,instead it is allowing me to change back to 3to4 yrs.so what can i do. gud …

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My CPU is a 733mhz Pentium III. To what extent can I overclock it without damaging the CPU? Thanks for the help.

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My pc only has 2 dimm sockets. One has 256mb of ram. Can i put 512 in the other one or do they have to be the same?

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I have a Toshiba Satellite A30 Laptop which has 2 fans under it (one to try to keep the CPU cool all the time the other to cool it rapidly if it gets too hot). However, over the past few months I have noticed a steady increase in the amount …

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I am trying to upgrade the cpu in my sons computer, When i install the new cpu all i get is a black screen. How can i tell what this mother board can handle and how can i change the cpu for the new one thanks jess

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Hi everyone, I have some rather ridicalous questions so bear with me for a while. The last time i did overclocking was five years ago was when overclocking was simply configuring the jumpers on the motherboard and had nothing to do with the bios. Well now they all have to …

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Title pretty much says it all, I'm looking to do a small upgrade to my pc. I'm a pc gamer,and I wanna add a little more umph to my gameplay so I can get my money's worth out of my new gfx card. Here are my current PC specs... Windows …

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I just upgraded from an old Athlon XP setup on a GA K7 Triton board to a Foxconn Winfast NF4K8AC with Athlon 64 3500+, brand new 450W PSU and a 256Mb Nvidia 6800 GS (GDDR3). When I hook everything up it all seems to be going fine - it goes …

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My laptop wont start up all of a sudden. I get this yellow blinking light on the far left of the blinking light status area. It appears to have a plug in below it. Yes everything is plugged in. I try manually starting it it wont do anything. Left it …

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My CPU fan is running really slow so my CPU temp is 65 degress and if playing a game almost 80 ive cleared dust from it but its still not going faster please can u help

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These chipset are for dual opteron motherboards: nVidia nForce Pro 2200 & 2050 or AMD® 8131 HyperTransport PCI-X Tunnel AMD® 8111 I/O Hub We're talking about performance from processors, memory, hardrives, and motherboard bandwitch assuming they have the same setup(same ram cpu....) We are also talking about features that touch …

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:eek: Hello everyone, i am looking for a good benchmark software for hardware. Any adivse? Thanks Carl

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Hi Guys, I would like to know if I can use to different processors on a dual processor motherboard? Can I install a celeron and a pentium at the same time ? What about same processor but with different clock speed? For example a pentium running at 2.4 GHz and …

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hi, ive recently upgraded my system........amd athlon64 3500+ am2 socket (i know, its not much, but i couldnt afford c2d or 4200x2 at this time), BFG 7600GT, corsair value select 1 x 512mb pc2 5300(667mhz), 80 gb sata, 380 watts coolermaster psu.............and a cheap asus m2v tvm mobo(supports dual channel). …

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Hello, I recently was given an emachines T1840, but i suspect the motherboard is dead - can anyone tell me the form factor of this board? I know its a socket 478 - celeron 1.8 Ghz. any help is appreciated...thanks!

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I have a computer that had an Abit mobo and the controller card went out for IDE-0 channel. Replaced it with the board below. [url="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813128307"]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813128307[/url] I get power, lights and fans come on(including cpu fan) but no display. I've removed all non-essential piecesa and tried every ram configuration, no luck. …

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I know upgrading notebooks can be a bit of a problem. What is the easiest way to find out which cpu's certain notebooks(in particular dell notebooks) can handle? I was hoping to find perhaps a site that lists the notebooks by model number and rates the highest cpu speed they …

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I'm New to this ... I'm Upgrading a MSI 6178 Mobo. from a 700mhz Celeron to a 1.3Mhz Celeron. Fitted the to cpu and now I cant get the screen to switch on and I'm unable to make any changes if needed to the bios or system setup :( Can …

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I have a Dell Dimension 8100. Lately, when I turn my PC on I get a loud noise coming from the back of my computer. It sounds as if my fan is making a lot of noise. What can I do? Can it be replaced and how expensive is that? …

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Basically, when I shut down this Gateway computer from a client, it keeps running. Windows is gone, and the is no display but keeps sending a signal to the monitor. The fan also stays on. Only way to shut computer down compltetely is by unplugging it... please help

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I was looking to buy this: [URL="http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16813188009"]EVGA 122-CK-NF68-AR Socket T (LGA 775) NVIDIA nForce 680i SLI ATX Intel Motherboard[/URL] - $250.00 Recently however I have seen that people have been having trouble with the Bios (Bio nightmare from my EvGa Gfx card last year :mad:) and am having second thoughts. …

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A friend of mine has a toshiba satellite a10 which has alot of issues. We were partioning the hard disk. that succeded well but after we tried to format the primanry drive it did not coz i think the software placed by toshiba cant allot me to. then i tried …

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My computer is one that I put together myself so when it breaks I am the only person arround to fix it. My computer had started acting funny awhile ago so I had been working on it for a couple weeks. Last night I was working on it and accidentally …

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[COLOR=black]Hi everyone I'm a newbe to this site and they call me Gimp because I have a gimp leg.[/COLOR] [COLOR=black]I really need some help before I toss this machine in the trash. Here is the situation. My son fried his computer that I built him last year by hooking up …

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[B]i have one onboard speaker and would like to add some more but my mobo wont accept the speakers (4 pin) is there anything i could do? as i am looking ito pimping my pc with heaps of internal speakers[/B]

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hi, just came across this memory on ebuyer and looks like the fastest memory on planet. [URL]http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html?rb=23310872097&action=c2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X3NwZWNpZmljYXRpb25z&product_uid=108445[/URL] OCZ PC2-8000 DDR II-1000 GOLD EDITION XTC but can't find a suitable m'board for it. can any one suggest any? the problem has to do with the mhz of the memory which is …

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Hi I need some help I am trying to upgrade my dreamsys 5001 from 128mb to 512mb -but nothing happens (apart from a few bleeps and no action on the screen). I put the old memory in and tried to adjust the bios but it won't let me access that …

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Hi guys, I've just gotten some specs sorted out for a new PC, and wanted to run it by a few people to see if they can spot any major issues with it. So without further ado, here are the specs: [B]CPU: [/B]Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 (2.67 GHz, FSB …

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