Recent content by vvdusen

Well after running memtest it was getting a bunch of errors at stock 4-4-4-12 2.2v but after I put all the settings to auto it passed with no errors. Seems weird but for now it seems okay. I'll leave it on overnight and see what happens.

Well I used the computer for a good few hours yesterday watching a movie and playing games. Overnight it crashed and it said "modification of system code or a critical data structure was detected". I will try memtest and resetting cmos. If that doesn't work I'll try taking out the sound card.

I just built this rig about a month ago. For the first few weeks everything was fine. Then one day I come home from work and its stuck at the windows loading screen. Reboot and get bsod. After finally getting windows to load my video card appears to be uninstalled. Pop in the windows xp...

I have Windows XP installed on a 500gb Seagate partitioned into 2 drives. For some reason the drive keeps changing back to pio mode. I already went in to device manager and uninstalled the drive and when I reboot it says udma mode 5 but after a while it keeps changing back to pio mode for some...

Link fixed. I am on a budget but I don't think I'm willing to go the celeron route. I just would rather spend less now on something adequate and later on I can still have the option of getting a quad core or something.

I am planning on purchasing some new components in the next week or so and just wanted to get some opinions from others in case I was making any glaring mistakes. I will be using a case, psu and hard drives from my current setup and I already have a bfg 8800gt. Motherboard- GIGABYTE GA-P35-DS3L...