Recent content by pimpgallant

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    bent pin in dimm socket

    ill use metal toothpick, and ill dip my feet in a bucket of water, and make sure my computer is turned ON!
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    bent pin in dimm socket

    well my computer is working, i just dont have 2gb of ram, only 1gb :(
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    bent pin in dimm socket

    i just got a motherboard from newegg, and i got 2gb of ram in 512mb sticks, but in dimm socket number 4 the one pin is pushed out into the channel. i tried to push it back in place but dont have anything small enough, and i dont wanan ruin my board, any ideas? plz help :lol:
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    black & white squares? video card bad?

    i have PC x800gto and the only game i play is world of warcraft, and after about 30mins in game, the screen will go crazy with these black and white squares everywhere, and i cant see anything, the ATI GPU crash thing doesnt come up or doesnt restart. it only does it when i play wow, i tried...
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    problems with ATI Tool

    Which beta ATI tool are you using? 0.24
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    problems with ATI Tool

    I'm having problems with ATI tool, i have the PowerColor x800gto 256mb, 256bit, and it wont overclock past 415core/513mem, (400/499 stock) when it reaches 415 the monitor just goes black then the computer restarts. any tips? :?:
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    Very old computer working?

    haha
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    ATI card naming

    Think of the "x" as a "10" and it might help you. Bigger numbers generally higher performance. x1k is current gen, x800 is previous gen and 9xxx are gen before that. In the 9xxx days the "pro" suffix indicated the highest performance model. At least with the 9700 anyway. I think there...
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    ATI card naming

    someone explain the ATI naming game. there is 9600, 9800, x300, x700, x800, x1300, x1600, etc, then there is pro, gt, gto, xt, xtx, etc. so confusing. :?: Thank you
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    hidden partition on acer laptop

    im on a crappy acer laptop atm it was free, but i just ordered from newegg last night AMD Athlon 64 3700+ (939) Open Box: MSI RX480 Neo2-F Socket 939 ATI Radeon XPRESS 200P X800GTO 256MB DDR3 CORSAIR XMS 2GB DDR 500 not bad for 550 bucks :)
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    hidden partition on acer laptop

    i doubt it will run world of warcraft. but maybe ill adventure into it again when i get an extra box to play with
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    hidden partition on acer laptop

    yeah while your hacking at away on your keyboard, going through command line, then going through books and google trying to figure out what the command is. while i just double click my way around. but i am not totally anti linux, i ran gentoo (stage 2 i believe) on a my old server box after it...
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    hidden partition on acer laptop

    i dont like linux to much work :D
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    ATI's X1950 Pro to cost $199

    RV570 is a 256 bit memory interface card
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    hidden partition on acer laptop

    thats what i wanna do, add all the patches, etc and then try and install it on other computers! thanks for your imput