Recent content by brianosaur

I believe that it had been set on default, but I reset BIOS anyway and same thing happens. Ran Memtest for four hours and zero errors showed up. Quickly pulled and resnapped the GPU and it started right up.

Recently whenever the display timer turns off my monitor, it will not re-display anything upon keyboard or mouse press. Just black screen. I dont ever sleep or hybernate the o/s, only 'turn off the monitor' after few hours. PC is usually running 24/7. It was taking multiple power shutdowns...

Getting my pre-teen child a first phone for Christmas. Any recs for a child's phone monitoring software/app? Results of a Google search are overwhelming.

I hadnt, but did as you suggested. It did boot to bios but I saw only dimm_A2 was present. I realized I didnt seat B2 all the way any tried again. Nothing. Dead screen. I pulled B2 and restarted with only 1 stick. It now loaded bios. Swapped sticks. Nothing. Thought bad stick? Swapped...

Win10 went to BSD frowny-face 'Your pc ran into a problem..." and shut down on me. I attempted to restart several times, but it refused to boot or even give me a mobo splash screen. After many restarts I got into bios, once, and saw my o/s drive wasnt showing up. I tried restarting again, but...

Been years since my last build ...blah, blah, blah. Budget about $800-$1000. ...$900 or under would be nice. Looking for best bang for the buck for gaming with for the primary four. (CPU, GPU, Ram & atx Mobo). The current 650w psu I have is 6 pin x2. If I *need* a new one that would be on...

My Linksys e2500 router has been blocking (time out) incoming mail and a few specific web sites. I can send mail no problem and browse to most pages on the web. Email client settings are correct. When I plug my Ethernet cable directly to my modem, I can receive emails and browse to any...

Sorry should have been more specific.

W7 PC suddenly has internet connection issues. It is LAN hardwired via switch to router. Another pc on LAN has no connection issues. Other wifi devices have no connection issues. Tried rebooting pc, modem and router several times. Ran registry, malware, spyware, virus scanner/cleaners...

Kind of a off question here but didn't know where to go. In Toms GPU 2011 charts the benchmarks show the Gigabyte Windforce GTX 560 Ti out performing or keeping up closely with 6950's, 480's, & 570's http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/2011-gaming-graphics-charts/benchmarks,123.html I...