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Sorry if this is wrong place to post. But I just needed to know what this thing is. It's on every motherboard that I have seen. I'm not really a PCB expert or anything but I just want to know. (I'm not trying to fix it or anything) Also it would be nice to know what it does. Thanks for the help...

No the socket is fine. It's the whole board looking dirty.

So I pulled off this Asrock G41 board from a junkpile that actually works with literally rust on usb ports. The board looks very dirty that it is clearly visible. I just want to make it look better but with the board still working, And maybe try to remove rust from the usb port.(is that even...

Yeah probably. It might be dead but I'm gonna try other things.

So I got to a scrapyard to find some old used PC parts. I picked up a working hard drive and Pentium E6300 and use it. I also found an Asus P5G41T-M LX board that looks ok so i got it for cheap and test it. I installed a working Q6600 and 2GB DDR3 memory then i plugged in mobo and there's a...

I think I'm just gonna go for that $50. I don't really like prebuilt PCs. Edit: So for $335 budget for this PC Half new Half used (I actually have more but don't wanna spend that much so, yeah) I got the specs Used parts MOBO : Gigabyte P61-ds3-b3 for $25 CPU : I5-2500 for $50 4*2 GB (1600mhz)...

I found i5 2500 for $75. Is that a good deal? Because if that's good. Then I buy the gtx 650. I could use 4gb of ram before i upgrade it later. The 3570 is $100 but I don't really see difference between these in benmarks anyway so I might go with the 2500 if that's a good deal. (For the price...

So I found A gigabyte p61-ds3-b3 board. For $25 and also a gtx 650 for $50. So that now i have my current 775 system that would it be ideal to get a gtx 650 for it or do I just start over with the 1155 board Here are my specs Gigabyte p41t-d3p Xeon E5430 not Oc'ed 4gb ddr3 (maxed out) Hd 4670...

I Used Memtest86 and turns out all of the ram sticks are working correctly if I only put one stick of ram in. If I put 2 at the same time the bios and Memtest86 doesn't see the second stick. It doesn't matter which slot or which stick. But here's the bios settings that I can see (how to post...

Well yeah. The first 2 of them works in any slot alone. The third doesn't work on this machine. I will upload bios screen tomorrow as i'm going to bed right now. (It's night right now)

Well, yeah all the ram sticks are the same model and work fine.But there's a problem. My pc doesn't have CD slot. Or Floppy either. So can I put memtest86 in my USB flash drive? I am also using network boot and there's no hdd inside. so I just wanna fix it without wasting my money on this thing.

Hello everyone, I have an old PC that I want to use it. It has an Intel DG41WV motherboard in it. Before it has a 2GB Kingston DDR3-1333 stick in it. It works fine all the time, But 2 GB is to little.:D So I decided to buy a matching stick and install it. After install it the PC boots. When I...