Recent content by Andrew_155

The board came from alienware with the pentium D installed. I later found out that it was due to the heatsink not placing enough pressure onto the processor for heat transfer. The computer not boots and runs no problem with all 4 RAM sticks. However im having trouble installing my OS. Im trying...

Update: I ran two sticks of ram and the display turned on for a second and i got half a beep but then shut down again.

This has now become a three day headache starting with a bad mobo. I replaced it with an ASUS P5N32-SLI REV. 1.02 with an intel Pentium D. The computer starts when its plugged in automatically without pressing the button it runs for 30 seconds then shuts off with no output to the display or...

So last night my motherboard in my alienware build blew and i needed to replace it with the old components. the CPU is overheating and the computer shuts down after 5 seconds. I have the watercooler that came with the system but i have no clue how to install it nor how it was installed when i...

Hi, im having trouble with my windows 7 boot updater tool. I've been trying to get it to work for a while now and to no avail. when i launch the program it does not start and i get 4 critical stops. then program does not start and does the same thing when i launch it. I will try and upload some...

Ok I found out its an update from windows i believe. My scans have come back as clean (webroot and malawarebytes) I did a google search on it and it turned out to be a windows update. Thanks Everyone for your suggestions

what kind of monitor are you using? mine did the same when i first built it I was using a CRT and switched to lcd and that fixed my problem.

So i have to write this quickly so please bear with me. I while ago i revealed my hidden files on my Hard drive and found some suspicious looking files lettered/named with a bunch of numbers and letters and to me looks like i virus.I ran my AntiVirus at least 15+ times and came back clean.When i...

Heres the problem its a Alienware area 51 with an asus motherboard. it will boot with into bios and then once it tries to boot into windows xp prof. the bar scrolls then i get a flash of a BSOD and i reboots. Ive used the xp restore disk from alienware and it still does not boot it does the same...