Recent content by Galea

I just finished building my new PC. I've had some experience before but it's been a while since I had to apply thermal compound and my cooler was rather difficult to install (lack of strength on my part) so I'm wondering if I did it correctly. Intel i5 6600K with Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo...

I don't even know why it double posted. This is what I get for using Internet Explorer when I don't have anything else installed. Shame on me =(

So after 2 weeks of PC problems, 5 Win7 installs later and a BIOS flash (which fixed the conflict between the latest NVidia drivers and onboard VGA) -- my computer seems to run ok, no weird errors in event viewer or anything. The thing is it used to beep once at POST and load everything, then...

So after 2 weeks of PC problems, 5 Win7 installs later and a BIOS flash (which fixed the conflict between the latest NVidia drivers and onboard VGA) -- my computer seems to run ok, no weird errors in event viewer or anything. The thing is it used to beep once at POST and load everything, then...

I'm getting a voltmeter for the 12v plugs, is there any way to tell if it's the MoBo or anything else? Right now Im looking at way too much money if I have to replace UPS Battery + PSU + 3 Hard drives + surge protector :cry:

So I've had a lot of bad luck with PC components these past few weeks. 2 of my hard drives died and I just got this Western Digital Caviar Black WD1002FAEX 1TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s -- off Newegg. I went ahead and cloned my new failing Samsung Spinpoint 1TB to my new WD Caviar Black...

Thank you RetiredChief and smorizio! I will get a voltmeter as soon as I can. What about those 2 fans going on and off, could that also be something related to the PSU? They're just regular 80mm case fans with blue leds. I've tried 2 so far and I had to disconnect them because after a while they...

I got an electricity usage monitor ("Kill a watt") so I went ahead and connected the power strip/surge protector that gives power to the Belkin 1100 VA UPS which my computer is connected to. With the PC+LCD Monitor+Modem connected it reads 143 Watts 126.8 volts 161 VA 1.28 Amp 60 Hz I don't...

I seriously need help figuring this out before I have a panic attack =(. I lost my secondary drive 2 weeks ago . It was a 4 years old WD but I recently built a new computer and transferred that HD to it. It took a month or so for the drive to start clicking. Then the HD I bought to be my new...

Thanks for your reply! Unfortunately I have no other computer or graphics card I can test it with but I have an old CRT monitor that weighs like 50 pounds. Should I try that? -- I will try the beta drivers but this is an old LCD model and the drivers I have are from May 2012. It's getting worse...

Hello, I really need help figuring out if this is a monitor issue or if I should be sending my EVGA 560 ti for repairs. I've been using this ASUS VH226h LCD for 5 weeks now, 3 weeks ago it started showing faint horizontal lines on the left side of the screen. They're not noticeable when it's...