Recent content by hafengr

Memory issue possibly! Take out one stick, try booting up. If it stays up that stick is bad. If not put it back in and pull another and boot up again. Really the only way to find the issue is to take out piece by piece until you find the culprit.

You will need to take out one piece of hardware at a time, I would start with the memory. take out one chip of memory, Boot the PC, If you post then that memory is gone. if not place it back in it's spot and take out another one. See if you post. Keep doing this with mostly all parts attacked to...

Best advise I can give you is to build your own computer. Buying those nationally known store purchased computers is nothing short of a rip-off of the consumer. HP and others place the cheapest hardware known to mankind into computers they sell for prices that do not nearly match what is inside...

Yes my plan was to use the onboard to back up, but I will take your advice to add the Raid controller card since this AsRock board I am unsure off completely. I figured I can use it until I can pickup more of a quality motherboard such as Asus or Gigabyte. I had the tech from Newegg show me the...

I had an issue like this once and I was trying to put a larger wattage CPU into a board that only excepted a 95 watt CPU. Not saying this is your trouble, but I figured I might mention it.

Well I had hoped to get a server board, but found that it really is not a server type cpu, so I guess my best answer to your question would be something as reliable as possible. I plan to set up a small server in my home to store music, data, and maybe some movies. I have three PCs in my home...

I have an AMD Athlon II x4 630 processor that I would like to use for a home server. I need ideas on a server quality motherboard that will allow me to use this processor. Any ideas?

Okay, I had to get permission from Microsoft for and ISO file since my DVD drive is malfunctioning. They gave me permission and directions to use USB Flash or Jump drive to place ISO on. Both my jump and flash drives are Fat32 not NTFS. Does this matter?

I am guessing that the SSD needs to be formatted prior to moving forward with a fresh install. NTFS for that I understand is the formatting type.

Okay thanks, I tried to clone and got to 97 percent. it said it had an error that read "failed to retrieve source information 205500(0322bc)". Something about possible bad sector. How can I tell if that is correct? I may just do a clean install then move my files over.

Hello All This may be a dumb question, but I am not sure if things have changed when it comes to Primary and Slave hard drives. I am planning to install an SSD as my primary and want to keep my current HDD as a slave, I have watched many videos on this but none of them say anything about...

Hello, I am looking for some answers on what I can do to get my system back to normal again. My installation of SSD failed for some unknown reason. Had everything set as it was supposed to be in the Bios but I could not load windows from my OEM Win7 disk. I put the original HDD back and returned...