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Hello all. This is quite an impressive forum and I am asking for some of your technical expertise. I am in the planning stages of building a new computer. Found a great deal on a barebones kit and thought I was ready to go, until... I spent the last 7 …

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My friend gave me this old motherboard and I'm trying to find out which pins I need to connect to the power LED, power switch and reset switch wires. The mb does not have the make & model on it, he can't find its manual and I can't find it …

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My Uncle recently bought a new mobo and processor to put into his computer. We've put everything in, and the computer powers up. Then we get a screen that says, "American Megatrends" "AMIBIOS (C) 2005" It recognizes the hard drive and the optical drives, then at the bottom it says, …

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can anyone help i need raid drivers for a kv8 pro motherboard and cant find them anywhere :eek:

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Anyone know the upgrade limit on the Dell Dimension 4500 for a CPU. My mother's has a P4 2GHz and I wanted to upgrade it for her. Anyone have any idea of how high I can go?? Can't find that info anywhere. Thank you in advance. Carl

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I am going to build another computer for myself this time and was just curious about other people's opinions on the best board for under $200. I am not a gamer and may or may not overclock. I do video editing and will have an e-sata backup so would possibly …

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Well, I am a gamer. A few months ago I would get "random" BSOD, while playing Starcraft. By random I mean it would not always occur from the same action. Eventually it started saying that I needed to manually de-accelerate my grafix card, by submitting my error report. My dad …

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Ok here is the problem, my computer keeps shuting down and some the lights stay on and the cpu fan stops but the power supply fan is still runs. Very randomly it could stay on 5-10 hours ever since i put in a new Nvidia video card and 1G of …

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Hi guys, this computer is really driving me crazy. Its a Compaq machine that has been doing well for sometime now. But recently it went crazy! It goes off whenever it wants to! Sometimes it goes off shortly after booting, and severaly Im forced to reboot again and again. I've …

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Okay, right off the bat I'll admit I'm a newb in terms of having to fix a notebook computer but this morning when I tried turning on my gateway it gave me an error message saying to check fan 2. I hoped it was just being tempermental and I shut …

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Hi there. I have a 7600GT AGP that i still want to use and i want to upgrade the rest of my system to get the most out of it (the GC) i was wanting recommendations to what i should do? atm i have a P4 3.2GHz on an ASUS …

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Im half way through building my pc and have ran into a problem, the connector wire for the front system power buttons is TOO SHORT to reach my motherboard connector! My board is a ASUS P5B-Deluxe WIFI-AP My case is a AEROCOOL COOLVIEW The problem is that the M/Board is …

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I need a new mother board for my toshiba M45 S355 labtop. How do i find out what motherboards would be compatable with my system? I need to do this with out using the computer since it will not stay on with out freeze for more than a minute or …

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Hi there I have this strange problem with my Compaq Presario 2500 Laptop. - computer starts up (and stays on) when plugged into the AC adaptor, and the connection is anything but loose. - the battery charging symbol shows that it's charging, and occasionally that it is directly on AC …

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:p I have an AMD Sempron 1.6G processor and I want to upgrade to an AMD Sempron 2.2G proccessor will need to format? OR can I just change out the CPU? Thank you

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I just upgraded my whole system. New motherboard, hard drive, cpu, heatsink, ram, and video card. i was able to get through the vista install quite roughly, but whenever I boot up my computer it restarts after about 2 minutes. I was wondering if it was a power supply failure …

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Hi, I have Dell Preceision 690 with 2gb RAM. I bought additonal 1gbX2 ram from Dell which are supposed to be compatible to this machine. When I install new RAM, system shows total of only 3gb instead of 4gb ram. In Bios set up also installed memory is shown as …

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I have been playing world of warcraft and the game is choppy when I get into heavily crowded areas I run it on a Compaq Presario AMD Sempron [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread71191.html#"]Processor[/URL] 3100+ 1.81 GHz, 384 RAM with sis 760 video card. However the minimal requirements for [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread71191.html#"]WoW[/URL] are Intel Pentium® III 800 …

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:rolleyes: Hello guyz I've bought a board recently with a new VGA. Below are specification: P4800D-X GeForce 5500 After installing it to my mobo and fix the interfacing of it. My mobo boot smoothly on bios when I've logging in at windows their is no keyboard activity neither mouse activity …

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Hi I have two pc's with AMD Athlon 64 3000+. The problems I've been experiencing have been happening ever since installing IE7, or another factor im not sure of. The pc's starting freezing, restarting by themselves and dumping physical memory. Eventually the pc's couldnt even boot up anymore. It would …

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Hi i have this problem... lately my monitor keeps blanking out for like 2 seconds before it comes back on again. Sometimes, the words and color will appear abit funny. Also, today for no reason, many many icons popped out.. like around 40 over internet explorer tabs, and many msn …

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Gateway 2.4GHz PC running WinXP SP2. I noticed a few days ago that when I put my PC in standby mode the CPU fan will continue to run for as long as there is power to the machine. If I shut the machine down, of course it stops. A buddy …

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hi i have an intel d915gvwb mother board..it has a pci express x1 slot and 3 pci slots..today i found that above the 3 pci slots i found some tiny holes like the one provided to insert some extension slot on the board...and above it was marked "pci express x16",is …

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Hey again. I bought a new 3DFuzion GeForce FX 5500 Graphics Card. After a while my computer now randomly shuts down and now it doesnt even get to the log in screen. I am currently running on a 250W PSU do you think that i should buy a new PSU?

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Hello everyone. I added an ethernet adapter card to a computer of mine yesterday and the keyboard stopped working. I've checked the connection and it's fine. The keyboard appears to be disabled at BIOS level because I can't get into setup by pressing DEL during the boot process. Windows still …

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Found this cool piece of software and thought of you guys straight away!! If you cant over-clock your board,try and raise the FSB instead!! A friend was running at 1000Mhz at 100FSB. He is now running at 1200Mhz at 120FSB. With just a 200Mhz increase he can definetly tell the …

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Does anyone have a better wiring diagram than the short 1 page dribble aerocool have on their website. Would like to hear from other aerocool coolview case owners and how they have wired up the fans in particular

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Im about to start building my 1st PC, I have good PC knowledge however im just a little confused about my fan set up. This is the system i will be running -Aerocool Coolview case [html]http://www.thecoolingshop.com/product_info.php/cPath/101_24/products_id/1889[/html] -HIPER 580W type R PSU -ASUS P5B deluxe wifi-ap motherboard [html]http://www.ebuyer.com/UK/product/113963[/html] My problem is …

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I just got done building two computers using the C2D 6400. I used the Asus P5B-E and was not overly impressed. I hated the bios and its looks. It had a problem with any overclocking at all and some of it's own software messed it up. Anyone care to lead …

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