Recent content by jason2189

I came home one day and the power had been out. My computer would not turn on, it played a number of beeps which I looked up and determined the video card was bad. Once I replaced the video card, it would turn on, but it took close to five minutes to go to the first screen. From there, the...

Equalizer is off

I just noticed that if I play a song/video on Youtube, the audio quality is slightly lower than if I download the song/video and play it in Winamp/MPC. Specifically, it lacks bass and the audio is tinny when played directly from the internet. It's not noticeable with regular PC speakers or...

I did check for malware and viruses, none found. I rebooted my computer shortly after my last post and had right about 4GB RAM used up until the last day or two, I now have 8.4 GB used. In RAMmap, "nonpaged pool" is showing 4.5 GB, it was very low (maybe zero?) after restarting. What exactly...

I have 16 GB of RAM in my computer and Resource Monitor and Task Manager both show 14.1 GB used. I added up all the memory use by every program listed in Resource Monitor, rounding up on all, and came up with just under 4 GB in use. That's about what's always been used in the past. It has...

Well... I figured it out. Apparently lacking the RAM drive was causing the problem. I got an error message while trying to download memtest, no matter where I tried to save, I got an error message about not finding X:\. I turned it back on at 256 MB and everything seems back to normal. There...

I had built a mineral oil cooled computer (totally not worth it, btw) and it stopped working. I de-mineral oiled it and put it into a regular case. The heat spreaders on the RAM were falling off because the mineral oil made the rubbery stuff swell up and the adhesive dissolve. So I installed...

I was just wondering if there are other uses for dedicated BTC mining hardware, specifically the "block eruptors". I was considering buying one, at current conditions it would certainly be profitable, they have a slightly lower hashrate than my GPU but use about 1/50th the power... my only...

I think I have this figured out. It's been 2 days now and I haven't had this problem since. In "advanced" under "speaker properties", I unchecked the "allow applications to take exclusive control of this device" box. As far as I know, this setting was not changed in about 2 years and caused...

Sometimes when I have multiple programs playing sound, if the audio from one stops, no sound will play until I close the program that is using it. Most commonly I notice this when playing StarCraft II while listening to music in WinAmp. If the playlist ends while no game sounds are being...

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Thank you. I thought I'd read every page on their site about this MOBO, apparently not. Another question, if I were to purchase the fastest 8 core socket AM3+ processor available and install it without touching the BIOS first, what would happen? Is there any chance the existing BIOS (v 1.9)...

I currently have an AMD Phenom II x4 Black Edition processor. I would like to upgrade to a 6(or 8) core processor. The supported CPU list shows the Phenom II X6 as the only upgrade from an Phenom II x4. I'm wondering if they have just neglected updating the list, or if other 6(or 8?) core...