Recent content by vemerce

I just wanted to mention this. I called Radio Shack today and they *did* have the thermal compound in stock; the website was wrong. So if you end up in the same situation I was in, call them. Lol

For various reasons, I've had to attach, remove, then reattach my cooling system numerous times to my processor. The pre-attached thermal paste layer has worn very thin. I don't have any thermal paste handy and it would appear that no Radio Shacks near me does either. Can...

Okay. I already went the route of ordering that other processor... I'll just end up doing a browser build around that later. I didn't know a BIOS chip was so easily replaced so that's useful knowledge for the future. The new processor will be here tomorrow and I'll post an update as to whether...

Wouldn't that require me to solder the motherboard? I was thinking about just buying another processor to update the BIOS, then put the good one back in. That method would also work, right?

Never mind, I found a good pic. P1.30

I'm at work right now and I don't have a high quality enough image on my phone to read the chip. When I get home I can.

Okay... I might be wrong about the BIOS. So if I buy https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0095VPBFY/ref=ya_st_dp_summary and put it in, I should be able to update the BIOS and use my good processor?

Did you ask about the BIOS because this CPU requires a certain version to work in this board?

Looking like it's BIOS 2.60 and the manual even says it's supposed to support FM and FM2+ chips. I'm confused about this situation. I've built 4 computers so far and I've never dealt with an issue like this. What would make the system power on and everything seems to function, but I can't get...

Hey all. I've already read the Step-by-Step guide for troubleshooting these problems. It didn't help. I'm hoping that someone can help me. I've just built a new machine from scratch. *Cooler Master Elite 130 Mini-ITX Tower Case *ASRock Mini ITX DDR3 1066 NA Motherboard FM2A78M-ITX+ *AMD...

Okay. So, I found a partial fix and this is my hypothesis... Running Final Fantasy XIV with the latest version of DirectX 9.0c (native client after install) on my current system the game ran smooth and beautifully, but resulted in constant crashes (i.e. the game just disappeared) and occasional...

After putting some thought into this and browsing Google for the dxgmm1.sys error, I had a thought. Is it possible that 800w is not enough to power this rig at 1440p? Might I need a 1000w PSU?