Recent content by bhaney07

Hello everyone, looking to get some input/opinions on an old pc of mine. I had acquired this pc a few months back from a friend. More recently, i've had issues with it working properly (random blue screen), but i think i got everything working now. A system restore in windows seemed to have...

honestly, i'm at a point where i'm glad its up and running again, but afraid to go forward with anything else. lol

so, what should i do now that i have it running in safe mode???

UPDATE- apparently hitting the reset butting nearly 500 times gets it to finally start again. now, running a windows memory diagnostic tool. not sure if that will help or not. my goal is trying to get it into safe mode, as suggested by kapitalistas. update 2- windows memory diagnostics doesn't...

http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/M4A785M/ <<<my motherboard in this post. cpu is an amd phenom x4 9600 Hello everyone, I am having troubles with an old computer that i received from a friend a few months ago. It's a rather old pc, but I still would like to get use out of it. :) Thinking about...

Hello Tom's Hardware users, looking for suggestions. My wife and I moved into a new apartment a little over a month ago. At our previous place, we had att dsl, but had to drop their service in favor for about the only other (good) internet service provider in our area, Mediacom. (Feels like our...

One final update- Decided to pull the trigger on the g3258/gigabyte combo. couldn't pass up a savings of nearly $40 on a lower-end budget. Hope it will be worth it!

one more thing, sorrys- noticed through other post here at tom's and around the net, that some non z boards MIGHT need to have a bios update in order to accept the g3258... I'm not experienced the bios... :( there any chance that any non z board i choose, it will be ready out of box for the cpu?

Hey guys! I know it's been awhile since last post here, but now looking for feedback. Noticed newegg has a bundle right now of an intel pentium g3258 and a gigabyte mobo. (gigabyte ga-b85m-ds3h). All together total is 99.98 (savings of $37 off the board). What i want to know is, is gigabyte a...