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| | Last night I was installing my amd athlon 64 3700+ to my ASUS K8VSE Deluxe mobo and my mobo starting giving me an audio error: system failed cpu test. So I removed the cpu and tried booting up and the mobo said "no cpu installed" . I assume that the … |
| | Hi, I am looking to upgrade my RAM in my Compaq Presario M2217AP [url]http://h50025.www5.hp.com/hpcom/au_en/11_29_64_3693_EE504PA.html[/url] So far I have gathered that firstly: I don't want to fork out loads of cash for a HP-branded 1GB chip! Secondly, the chips specs that I will need are the following: 2 x 1GB chips … |
| | Can anyone maybe tell me why games like unreal tournament 2003 and unreal 2 and all games of that kind won't work on a celeron? I'm thinking about upgrading it with an old pentium 4 or a pentium 3 or maybe buy a AMD motherboard and cpu. Maybe someone can …  |
| | 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 …  |
| | Is there a program that will show my cpu temp without having to go into bios. |
 | Hey all don't know if I'm posting in the right area or not. Feel free to move it if I am. Anyways I'm looking to upgrade my ram to a Corsair Model # VS1GBKIT400 and was wondering if it is compatible with my Via P4XB-S Motherboard. I'm having trouble finding … |
 | not sure where to put this, so feel free to move it. I was thinking about taking the workings of a small refrigerator out and cutting a whole in my case for the vents, and cooling down my case with refrigerator workings. I know it wont be air tight and … |
| | 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 … |
| | Hi there, My brother got a eMachines T1862 but altho it seems he had droped it. so there was a part broken from the motherboard so im going to look for a new motherboard and just put that in there. Now this is the Computer how it was [IMG]http://www.emachines.com/products/images/emachines_t1862_main.jpg[/IMG] Specifications … |
| | hey, this is probable a very basic question I was just wondering if you thought this was a good deal. I wanted to buy a cheap laptop which I could take to back and fourth collage, it would mainly be used for writing small low levels programs, and word processing. … |
| | This is more like a survey but still is a question. What do you say the best temps for keeping components are? This is for a temp/fan controller I have and would just like to get the experts input on this. Example- the hard drive, I don't want it to … |
| | I have a MSI K7 Pro (MS6195) motherboard, and my computer has been intermittently stopping in the POST. When this happens the LED display on the motherboard indicates that the problem is occuring at the initialization of the floppy drive controller. Can anyone tell me which chip this is in, … |
| | is there such a thing as a 2gb memory module for a laptop? i got a laptop off ebay the other day, in the item description it said it could take 2gb of memory, but there's only 1 slot i don't need 2gb of memory, but i don't like being … |
| | would it hurt anything if i left the side of my computer case off? it gets really hot in there and it helps cool it down? any reasons why i shouldn't? |
 | hi all I am planning to buy a pc. I am thinking whether to go for AMD 64 with linux. I will be using java 1.5, jboss and related softwares. I want to know whether AMD 64 will support this. I may also install windows as dual boot. Which version …  |
| | Hi, I have a Toshiba A10-S169 laptop. A week before it stopped working, with the Orange LED blinking in a specific pattern. I checked the service manual and could understand that the blinking pattern reads as HEX 'D2', which says that "1R25-B1V voltage is 1.063V or less when the computer … |
| | Hello Group.... I've been getting this message SDRAM at DIMM#:1 every time the system boots and the MODEM PCI is installed on the mainboard. If I take it out, the system boots with no problems, no messages, just rigth and straight to the OSs as it should be! But...sometimes it's … |
| | Hello there, I have a IBM Thinkpad 390E, when i bought it, it came with an AC Adapter and a battery that was completely dead... So i bought a battery and loved it... Well i bought a car adapter for my laptop, and when i was reading all the diffrent …  |
| | Hi everyone. Ok I have a simple question....... sorry I don't know if I posted it in the right forum or not. Anyways, I have a Dell Dimension XPS Gen 4 and need a ribbon cable for my cd/dvd disk drives. I am unsure whether I need a "68Pin" ribbon …  |
| | Hello, I am having an odd problem. Everytime I turn on my computer it turns itself off only after a few seconds. There are no beeps or any messages on the monitor. I can't figure out what the problem is. I have a new motherboard that I installed after the … |
 | I bought a new power supply (and 6600GT vid card, and a gig of Corsair paired RAM) for my HP a420n computer from newegg. (Alienware it ain't :lol: but it'll work for me.) Its a Seasonic Supersilencer 350W. But I just read a review that made a point to say … |
| | When i turned on the computer, it beeps 3 times. The first time was a long beep and the last two deeps was short. And the screen was blank, and i could hear that the HD is working, sounds like it's booting ok but the screen was blank. What's problem? … |
| | I have a DFI Lan Party UT nf3 250Gb mobo and ever since I first booted it up, it has not recognized any network adapters except firewire. 1304 conncetion is the only one listed in the network adapters tab in device manager. Is this a hardware issue, or is there … |
| | I am also looking for a good fan controller and temp guide etc. It can be 5.25 or 3.5 size. What does anyone recommend? Thanks again. |
| | I am building five computers for a school to save them some money. I have tried different cases and they are not created equal that's for sure. You do get what you pay for. I have come to like the antec line with their nice ps and good build quality. … |
| | Over the past 2 months my HC Pavillion 533W has developed a mouse pointer icon that regularly has the hourglass icon appear next to the pointer. This happens every 5-10 seconds, the hourglass goes away with no apparent harm. Is doom on the horizon? How did this ghost get in … |
| | Just built a new 64bit system and my graphics lag like crazy. System specs: Cpu: Amd64 3400+ Newcastle (not overclocked) MoBo: DFI Lanparty n3 250gb HDD: WD 74 GB raptor 10,000rpm OS: Windows xp x64 680watt PS GPU: Nvidia 6800gt 256mb I'm starting to think its a directx problem so … |
| | On the new computer I am building the system fan has a 2 pin female connection. No problem for the motherboard but I want to connect it to a fan control with 3 pins. Can I just fit the 2 pins in to match the red and black wires or …  |
| | I don't want a computer with a window side panel and I don't want some crazy looking design. I want a computer that will hold back as much noise as possible. What is the quietest one out there???? |
| | Ok, I am gonna try and give as much info on this as possible, I have a Hewlett-Packard Pavilion XE783. I have 64 mb of RAM, and I am attempting to upgrade to 256 mb of RAM. I went to this site [url]www.all4memory.com[/url] Someone from this site recomended it. So … |
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