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 | A friend of mine has a VA3000SNA case, where the two fans are rated at 21dB. However they make a noise like a hurricane, which is amplified by the honeycomb grille of the case. The grilles will be replaced, but I'd like a fan controller to lower the speeds slightly … |
| | Hi everyone, I have a home pc with following motherboard Motherboard Name Intel 915GAV HT technology I use windows xp...(service pack 2 properly installed) problem: unable to load AUDIO driver...????????? I am a very basic computer user who knows how to surf net and check emails... I will be grateful …  |
 | I bought a Cool Colors SOHO tower. It has an LCD panel up front for the temperatures of the computer etc. Every now and then it will repededitly (spell?) beep at me. The temperature sensors are hooked up to the master hard drive, VGA card and CPU. The beeping tells … |
| | hi all - i am new to this forum but have an urgent question. I am an mac user by nature, but my question relates to a pc (my mothers actually). the pc in question is (as listed in its system requirements) AuthenticAMD AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor 128 MB RAM system … |
| | I recently had a problem with a hitch hicker, after dealing with the main problem I was left with a couple of small problems which I've been able to track down. A friend suggested that I try "System Mechanic 5" to run down the remaining problems, I did, and while …  |
| | Hello. I was hoping someone could help me with my mobo problem. I just purchased a new Asus A7V8X-X and a Sempron 2400+. After that, I put in my old HDD and CD-RW. The problem is that after the BIOS loads up, it doesnt load from the CD. Instead it … |
| | Okay Guys Please help me out wit this (For those who dont know the whole story go to the old post) AT: [url]http://reviews.cnet.com/5208-6141-0.html?forumID=8&threadID=96492&messageID=1095726[/url] I No Longer have a Compaq Computer. Now what i have done is Bought this MSI K7N2 DELTA2 MotherBoard and case.I did buy a new in the … |
| | My computuer case front speaker wiring is listed as such: mic in-, ground, spkout r, return r, mic bias, spkout L, return L My motherboard wording is as such: 1.mic, 2. gnd, 3. ref, 4. power, 5. front audio r, 6. rear audio r, 7. reserved, 8. no pin, 9. … |
| | I just installed a AMD 64 3000+ and a ABIT AV8 KBT800 Pro motherboard and the system won't even start up. I turn the comp on but 3 seconds later, everything shuts off? Is it my power supply or do I need more thermal paste on the processor? It's brand … |
| | I just installed a AMD 64 3000+ processor into a brand new ABIT AV8 KBT800 motherboard and the damn thing won't even start? The fans kick in then shut off immediately after about 3 seconds? Is it my power supply or is the CPU over heating so fast? NEED HELP … |
 | If any of you had to decide between buying a "Intel P4 3.6E 1MB (560) 800FSB LGA775" for CAN$ 537.00 and a "Intel P4 3.4GHz 2MB (650) 800FSB LGA775" for CAN$ 527.00. What would you choose and why? The first is running at 200mhz faster but has half the cache … |
| | I want to build my own computer and I am looking for ideas. I am interested in a good entertainment pc but I will probably have to bring it with me to college next year where i will be studying computer engineering and i dont want it to be laughed … |
| | So i have an Asus A7N8X nforce2 board that is upgraded to the latest bios (1010) and has the latest PCB (2.0). Everything on Asus's site says my new athlon 3200+ barton 400FSB should work on this motherboard. I popped out my old 2500+ barton, stuck the new one in, … |
| | What is the difference between F.S.B & bus speed of a processor what actually happnes when the hard disk jumper setting is "upper 32 gb" what is the difference between 40 conductor & 80 conductor data cables that we use to connect hdds to the motherboard & how does the … |
| | Hey everyone, building a new system here w/ a 3.4Ghz P4, ASRock 775i65Gv MoBo, 1Gig of Pc-3200 Ram, 450 Watt Rosewill Power Supply. My question is, why does the machine shut off 3 seconds after it turns on? I can press F2 to go into setup, and I can tell … |
| | I removed the motherboard on my Gateway 450SX laptop to resolder the power input jack. Since then the monitor will "scramble" at random times for no apparent reason. I tried connecting a crt monitor and the same thing will happen. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks |
| | I need more speed. Hopefully someone can help. It's an Intel WS440BX Socket 370 mobo with 100mhz FSB. CPU is PIII 550mhz. AGP chipset 1996 I think. 384mb of 168pin DIMM SDRAM 16x8 low density PC133. Windows XP Home Whats the max CPU speed I can plug into this board? …  |
 | Im wanting to know how many SATA cables I need and what kind if I want my entire system SATA ready. Im getting an ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 SLI ATX AMD mobo, so I know it is SATA compatible. Should I just count how many IDE ribbons … |
| | I have a PII with 64 mb RAM. I want to upgrade to either 256mb or 512mb. First question is will 256mb be sufficient now that i have XP installed or better to go for 512mb. Better with 512mb i'm sure but relative to cost? Second question is what do … |
| | Our Gateway Solo 5350 (Part number 3501084) just became a "flatbed" (i.e., the screen lost all tension in the hinges and flops full open or closed) for no apparent reason. It had not been getting noticeably looser and the last time we used it we had no problem. We toted … |
| | I have a Abit motherboard, an I found a software on the abit homepage for flashing the bios from windows. I have a abit BD7II motherboard and I wonder if its wise to use this tool or if someone has any experience in using it? |
| | Installed ECS Elitegroup Mobo with VIA PT800CE-A chipset and 3.0 ghz P4 CPU. Sometimes , but not always, on startup I have to access the BIOS and manually search for the HDD. This can occur on cold starts and on restarts. Any clue as to why this happens? |
| | I've got a question that just popped up in my head... If my system would need a 450 watt power supply and I would use a 400 or 350 watt instead, what would happen? Would the system shutdown? Could it be harmful to a system? |
| | I just bought new parts to build a PC and after everything was done I tried to boot up and nothing showed on screen. I plugged in headphones and when I pressed power the motherboard said this through the headphones: "System Failed due to CPU Overclocking". My guess is, the … |
| | :D ;D :) ;D SDRAM baby, oh yeah! Best random access memory in the world! For xp a good 768mb works. - John Jacob Jinglerhimershmitz P.S. his name is my name too.  |
| | i have just upgraded to 768mb ram and i have now started to get one short beep when the pc is away to start loading windows, ive done a little bit research and ive found that its a DRAM Refresh Failure the memory seems to be working ok but this …  |
| | I woke up this morning and my PC will not boot windows It gets the the windows XP loading image and then restarts, this happens over and over again. The computer gives me 5 different options. The first 2 result in the computer restarting at the same point as before. … |
| | I have just bought a Gigabyte GA-K8VT800 Pro Motherboard and am installing it in my machine. It has both a power fan connector for the case and also a system fan connector which both state that they are for the cooling fan. Which one am I best using? Is the … |
 | Asus A7V400-MX AMD Thoroughbred Socket A Windows XP I can't install the SoundMAX Audio Driver on the integrated soundcard. I have downloaded the driver from Asus and tried to install both manually and with the .exe file. But I only get an error message saying 'Bad data' in the end … |
 | I just dl-ed mbm 5 and I am puzzled/worried by some of the readings I get. The reason I got it was cuz my Asus probe made a dramatic shift in cpu temp. It was running at 28 C -cpu and 22 C -Mobo then suddenly it jumped to 44 … |
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