Recent content by Stu1961

Follow-up: Lacking replacement/swap-out parts, all I could do was strip it down to the bare essentials. All peripherals removed, all but one stick of RAM removed, and the graphics card pulled, with a monitor (a known working one) hooked into the mobo onboard graphics. Booted - no beeping...

Hello, I'm very much hoping someone might be able to assist me with diagnosing the source/culprit for a failing PC. I built this system for my in-laws a little over a year ago. Their needs are minimal: email, some online banking, checking on stocks etc. Basically they were just looking for...

Long Story (background): I was having trouble(s) with my OS after auto-installing MS Updates (those which it could successfully complete) and after over 10 hours of phone dialog with Microsoft "support" - they suggested reformatting as the last (and only) resort. Since I wanted a 2nd hard drive...

Probably an easy/dumb question (yet another), but here goes: I want to reformat the drive with my operating system on it. I plan to install a new hard drive (Raptor) for my OS and then use the previous one as a storage drive. Should I reformat now, reformat once the OS is installed on the...

New system up and running fine ... or so I thought! Problem: I wanted to go back into BIOS to tweak a few settings (Boot priority & some RAM settings) ... only to find out that 90% of the configuration fields that I previously had access to are now grayed out and I cannot change. As a matter...

Woohoo! Jumped the cmos, changed the boot order and voila! It finalized ... now to drop the other stick in and load up the new drivers. Thanks all.

32º Just did a cmos jumper/reset on the mobo ... will retry that way.

Thanks, Full specs are: CASE Antec Nine Hundred MOTHERBOARD GIGABYTE GA-P35-DS3L CPU Intel Core2Quad Q6600 2.4GHz G0 Stepping GRAPHICS nVidia GeForce 8800gt 512mb RAM Crucial Ballistix 2GB (2 x 1GB) HARDDRIVE Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 500GB CD/DVD Lite-On 20x LH-20A1H PSU CORSAIR...

Very first build ... and just when I thought I was free and clear too. Vista Home premium (64) loaded to about 99%, then the screen went black and restarted ... now it's stuck telling me: "The computer restarted unexpectedly or encountered an unexpected error. Windows installation cannot...

I need some help/advice with what I hope are very general questions ... as I await the last component (8800GT) to arrive before attempting my first build. Partitioning: ■Yes or no? If "Yes" ... ■Is this done prior to, during, or after the OS install? [:mousemonkey:4] ■How many partitions...

Thanks everyone! :D

Another first time poster and builder here. :sweat: Despite doing a ton of reading, I'm very anxious (read: confused) about the following components in regard to their value & compatibility (not to mention my own ability to put them all together successfully :( ). I would like to keep costs...