Recent content by mokume1

I am sure this has been asked hundred of times here, I've searched the forum and cannot find exactly what I am looking for. Custom built system in which is running Win 7, there are 4 hard drives installed, all are SATA 5400 RPM, 250 GB. All drives are recognized by Windows, there is no RAID...

Custom built system on which 2 recovered Vista operating systems are installed, one of which I have forgotten the system log on password I want to upgrade to Windows 7, I already have the upgrade CD, as well the original Vista installation CD. All existing hard drives (4) will be replaced with...

New home construction that I intend to install a structured wiring panel for CATV, telephone (land line), and internet access. CATV and broadband internet service are via Time Warner here, with internet service via a modem that they supply. This modem will be housed in this enclosure. What would...

Thanks for the response bud. The monitor is a known good one, works on another system. These checks are being made with MOBO installed in the case, will try it out of the case if all else fails. For some reason I suspect that the GPU may not be seating properly in the MOBO. The case is a...

new build: Antec Tru-power Trio 650 watt PSU Gigabyte GA-M59SLI-S5 MOBO AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ CPU ATI Radeon X 1650 Pro 512 MB PCI-E GPU Patriot PC2 6400 2 GB DDR2 800 PC kit Can anyone please help, getting desperate here...... Original problem with this build was during 1st bootup, it would...

What video card are you using? What PSU? Unplug the HD if it has a prior installation of Windows installed. You may try reseating the video card and RAM and boot with one DIMM in slot 1. If you get to BIOS, set your DVD as 'first boot device' and load your Windows CD in the try. Shut down...

thanks cutthroat for the reply. Yes I had the system off, even had the psu line cord unplugged. this mobo only has 2 pins on it for clearing the cmos, just to the right of the battery.I installed a jumper there as per the instruction manual then removed it, that did not help, so then I did the...

New build here: Gigabyte GA-M59SLI-S5 MOBO AMD Athlon 64 X2 4000+ CPU Patriot PC2 6400 2 GB DDR2 800 X2 memory Thermaltake tsunami case I attempted to run the bios for the 1st time, had keyboard and mouse issues, while solving that issue the screen would display 'loading drivers' and not...

:lol: Mahalo (thanx in Hawaiian) for the great info, spent sum time and $$$ in this build, so I hope you can understand my paranoidness, besides, the missus wants to commit me to an asylum......lol. Will probably d/load security stuff, can't beat the price! Here are some specs in case your...

Thanks Skyguy! Couple of questions though, plz bear with me, newbie :roll: What is boot order (floppy, CD, hard disk)? Would this be a boot command during system startup? I was planning on d/loading free security stuff (Avast!, etc.), but, of course this means web surfing first, is this too...

Newbie with new build here. 8O Been very careful up to this point with this build, today is startup day. Should I setup the bios 1st. (Gigabyte GAM59-SLI-S5), then load the O/S ( Windows XP Pro 32 bit) ? Any suggestions/comments welcome :D

8O Oops! this is tom's site...........lol

Thanks for the response, you are probably right on the connector, I will verify it tomorrow. As for the CS/M/S thing, I will probalbly go with setting it as master. Still don't know what the other connector is tho, (4 pin male), I'll research further, I think a saw a post in tom's hardware...

Newbie new build here, MOBO is a Gigabyte GAM59-SLI-S5 Plan to run 2 IDE devices, Mitsumi FA404M floppy drive with media card reader and a HP DVD 940i DVD writer. Both are IDE interface units. I have several questions here, will try to make as much sense as possible. The floppy drive was given...

Be ready for the avalanche of cash offers! The AMD stock HSF is one hot commodity! :lol: 8O So true bud, I can't even GIVE it away......lol If it's the heatpipe kind I'll take it off your hands, ;) :( Sorry bud, it's not........just the garden variety type cooler