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It happens literally ALL THE TIME. It begins between .5-3 minutes from the time the PC last receives mouse/keyboard input, the HDD will begin grinding and will not stop until it receives some input. My CPU usage will jump from 0% to at least 20%. I reset my virtual memory …

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I recently Installed a water cooling system into my pc and when I try to boot the computer the case speaker starts producing a really high pitch scream. Any advise would be greatly appreciated.

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Last night I was working on my computer and thought I smelt something burning. The CPU temperature was fine. I shut the system down for the evening to let it cool down. This morning I tried to turn the system on, but nothing. This board has an onboard LED light …

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I got this gateway computer from someone its a p4 2.17 ghz 512 ram. He gave it to me because it would not turn on. So i took it home and open the case and i reset the power supply since there was a reset button and it turned on. …

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why is it i have a celeron M 1.3 GHZ processer with 256 MB of RAM but the properties only say i have 248 MB. some one please help me this is really frustrating thanks in advance

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Well I made a foolish mistake recently and purchased RDRAM without realising that the RAM I bought was ECC and my BIOS handle non ECC ram. I was wondering if there was a way for making the RDRAM 512 MB PC800-45ns work on my Dell8200. I just get the message …

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So my Mother-in-law has bought my wife and I this eMachine T3828 that is woefully low on RAM, a mere 256kb. I want to upgrade the RAM, but since the PC is still under warranty I don't want to open it up myself. Has anyone here had a peek inside …

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Hi everyone, I have a new build p4 3.0, 1gb ram 2 sticks 512 each kingston value ram. Here's the problem it keeps shutting down I have win xp home. When I start up it will start to boot then shut down so I turn it back on and it …

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Hi, My Father and I own a videography business in South Florida. Lately, we've run into 2 problems with one of our computers. We have two computers in our office, both of which we use for work. They were built together, so the parts inside are exactly the same. A …

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Right, I've just started a new course and part of the requirements is to have two networked PC's. I built my current PC from scratch so this time I'm going for the complete system in one fell swoop! I've been looking around, and I'm getting very confused by what's right …

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Hello. I've just bought an Asus TA210 case, which in general I am very pleased with, looks nice, etc. etc. (apart from the sticking CD ROM stealth bay). I didn't get any form of documentation with it, just a case in an Asus box (I bought from a computer wholesaler), …

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Hello people Recently I just bought this [URL=http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820141167]Ram[/URL]from Newegg for upgrading another DDR333 PC2700 512MB Ram to my computer.. Ive been researching for a long time and most of the ppl from other forum say i can use both on my comp they match up.. Here are some of the …

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Maybe someone can help me... I just built a computer, very first one... when I power it up, it'll show the first screen prompting me to hit delete to enter bios. however, it just freezes on that screen. can anybody help me? asus doesn't seem to care too much. They …

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Ok i have 2 sticks of Corsair ddr 512mb - VS512MB400 Now when i first had some i just bought the one stick on its own, and i thought it was great 512mb from 256mb. But i noticed it start to slow down during games at weird times. I have …

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i installed 256ram and how do i find out if i installed the ram correctly thanks

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Hey guys, just a quick question. I got the Asus A8N-SLI motherboard and it's got the AC97 soundcard (or something like that). What I want to know is does it fully support 5.1 speakers or at least so I could hear "where the people are coming from" in America's Army. …

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My processor is an athlon 2.1 ghz 1800+ I believe but for some reason belarc and my computer specs say it is only running at 1.4 ghz my motherboard is an Aopen AK79D-400MAX and according to the PDF it is capable of running processors faster than 1.4 ghz. Does anyone …

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I'm trying to put together: MOTHERBOARD MB ABIT® IC7-G i875/ICH5-R chipset, Socket 478, 800MHz BUS, ATX format, Intel® P4, audio, Gigbit LAN on board CPU Intel P4 - 2.4 GHz 512kcache socket 478 - 800 FSB RAM DDRAM 512MB PC400 APACER® CL2.5 HD MAXTOR® DiaMaxPLUS® 160GB 8MB CACHE SERIAL ATA …

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Hola.. Pc wont boot, motherboard led comes on, keyboard lights flash, fan starts, can hear HDs start spinning, but nothing on screen, not even BIOS, nothing. Buddy of mine lent me graphics card that he swears works right, which I put in temp to check whether mine was to blame …

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Hi All, new to forum. I've searched previous posts and cant find a similiar problem so I'm getting really worried. about 5 seconds after booting my computer it powers down. I have disconnected all the drives and PCI cards to see if I can isolate the problem but even with …

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hi I want to buy a pc, it says 80GB MAXTOR Hard Drive ATA133, 7200 RPM & 2MB Cache, I was wondering is that the same as l2 cache or it is better. I am newbie to cache.........or pcs :mrgreen:

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Hi folks, I have just built a new system (specs below) and I've hit a snag. Since I put it together, the system will not shut down when it should, so I decided to get chipset drivers and BIOS up to date. The motherboard came with BIOS 1005 installed so …

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[url]http://cgi.ebay.com/ASUS-CUV4X-REV-1-03-INTEL-MOTHER-BOARD-W-P3-CPU_W0QQitemZ6849910024QQcategoryZ42006QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem[/url] this link is to a pic of a mother board thats somthing like mine if you look at the top left hand side of the board there is a small brown dual input slot in between the the long white one and the longer black one to the far …

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I had a problem with my mobod and sent it in to gigabyte. They said 3 weeks turn around and it is now day 32 and no mobod. I was wondering if all places are that way or is there another company that will get it back to you faster. …

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:mrgreen: Well. I've been all around the web trying to troubleshoot and figure out what the heck i've done wrong here. But this site seemed to be one of the better places to go ahead and register for. I recently ordered 2 512 DDR400 sticks of Ram to switch out …

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Recently, I swaped my old 850 mobo to 848 chipest, want to drop the expensive and old Rdram system. After I re-install win2k, every is ok, just the PC will re-boot after it is shuted down. I checked the mobo BIOS from the manufacturer website, it is the newest version. …

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My son has asked me to upgrade the Ram in his P.C. It is used mainly for gaming and has currently 512 of RAM. I intend to add 1GB. Does it matter wether I add 2 x 512 or a single 1GB stick. I was told 2 x 512 in …

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Not to long ago i built my custom pc. AMD 3500+ Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe Motherboard GeForce 6800 200 GB SATA Seagate Hard Drive Corsair (TWINX1024-3200C2PT) (2 x 512MB Matched Pair) 1024MB DDR RAM (Ebuyer Code 52471) My problem is with my RAM, i was testing some new stuff out on …

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Hello, I have recently bought an ASUS A8V deluxe motherboard and an AMD 64 Athlon 3500 and ive run into some difficulties. When i start the computer it informs me through the speakers that an overclock has failed. my problem is i have not set it to overclock and it …

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[FONT=Arial][SIZE=1]Hello all. I'm new here and need some help. My CPU fan needs to be replaced. My CPU fan is "JMC/DaTech Model 0925-12LMB." I contacted Dell and they assigned a unique part number to it and refer to it as the "CPU part#___" instead of referring to it as the …

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