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My system specs are i5 2500k at 4.5 GTX 570 8 gigs ram 750w PSU Some games, Just Cause 2 and Crysis, have been freezing up and giving me diagonal artifacts then crashing a second or two later. Nothing is overheating, processor runs at ~55c and graphics ~60c. Oddly it's only those two games so...

I am looking at the 660 ti and it looks like it has 2 6 pin requirements for it do I need to use both?

Just did my first external build, things are looking a little strange. Hooked up the MoBo, RAM, GPU, PSU, and CPU. Green light was on my MoBo. Hit the power pins with a screwdriver to test the power, and the GPU fans started spinning, but the CPU fan didn't budge, and the PSU fan spun for a...

Hi Hoping someone can give me a few tips to try. I have a Dell workstation 370 running windows xp. The OS was reinstalled about 6 months ago. I don't know how that install went or if the audio drivers were installed at that time or not, I do have the Driver & Utilities CD that I went through...

I have a Pavillion (m9150f) with Vista 32. I want to upgrade to Win7. I have the HP factory restore partition and 2 raid 0'd 350GB drives, I want to unraid, remove the factory partition and upgrade to X64 I understand that I have to do a clean install, so how do I verify to the installation...

Can anyone help??? I have tried everything I can think of and my processor still overheats. It idles at 50C (I have checked in Bios and in the PC probe utility supplied with the board) and when I try and play ghost recon or any other game the temperature shoots up top the high 60C's and it locks...

: i try to do a system restore. when i do. it say system restore was unable to restore. say. powerDVD. in red letters. any ideal ? and system restore is turn on.

i have instal windows 7 and i have the unknow device;the keys for lighting don't work;please i need this driver for my vgn-cs325j

The R3000 laptops come in various motherboard references as 370494-01, 370495-01, etc... my question is can I replace my original motherboard (370494-01) by for example the 370495-01 one since the main differences between them are the firewire port , the nvidia chip and the memory size of the...

My problem is a bit more complicated... Win 7 recognizes my 22" as 1680x1050 however some games don't recognize this resolution at all. Also games like Portal and FEAR 2 flicker very badly when attempting to play. I have the latest nvidia drivers installed. And this is a win 7 from MSDNAA...

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this is my first build, is there any compatibility issues before I start purchasing? XION Gaming Series XON-990-BK Black with Blue LED Light Steel/ Plastic, Meshed Front Panel design. ATX Mid Tower Computer ... Case: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811208045 Intel Core...

Archived from groups: alt.sys.pc-clone.dell (More info?) I bought a used Dimension 2400 and 3000 last year for home use. Recently, I read about bootable USB and was wondering how well Dell Dimension 2400 and 3000 PCs are at it? At work, the newer Dell PCs seem to have no problem. In fact, I...

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What are the best LCD monitors for graphic designers that aren't the Apple brand? While I agree that Apples are amazing, I need something that will interface with my Dell laptop and the people at Apple said that their displays only work Apple computers. I know that LaCie makes great monitors...

Hello, my Avid system with window xp service pack 2 show -"Reboot and select proper Boot device or insert Boot media in selected Boot device and press a key"

Archived from groups: comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.sys.laptops (More info?) I can no longer boot from my HP Pavilion xf145. I get a blue screen telling me "UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME". I attempted to boot from the recovery disks, and it tells me "Wrong Model Notebook". Discussions with HP tell me...

Hi guys, I installed Windows 7 7600 build RTM x86 on my system. Now, I installed new Windows 7 NVIDIA drivers for my 8800 GTS. Now I don't know which drivers I have to install for my mobo Asus M2N-e. Could you please advise me what to do now? My specs: AMD Athlon 4800+, 2GB RAM, 8800 GTS 512...

Hi, my monitor has a dual link dvi-d slot but my graphics card only has a single link dvi-d. My graphics card also has a dual link dvi-i output though so can anyone give me advice on how to make this work. ie: special cables, adaptors. this is my graphics card and monitor...

Hi, I am thinking of getting a Sapphire 7970 for my pc. what is the cheapest psu I will need to run comfortably with overclocking? And am I going for the right gpu...

I recently upgraded my computer and am just inquiry if I can upgrade to a dual video card configuration? My motherboard supports 2 X PCI-E 16X. So in turn could I use dual cards? My Specs are as follows: ASUS M4A79 Deluxe AM2+/AM2 AMD 790FX ATX AMD Motherboard XFX PVT98WYDBF GeForce 9800...

I have already gone in and changed the menu color and text for non-Aero objects. How can I change the excessively light blue selected items color to something with a bit more contrast?

Hello, when I open an e-mail in Outlook 2003, after I close it it disappears. where can I locate thes e-mails and bring them back?

After updating to the latest version of Avast today, I had to restart the pc to complete the process; then after logging in to my account, the screen froze partway through the loading of my account stuff, and after waiting half an hour and trying Ctrl+Alt+Del 3x, and nothing changed, I had no...

Archived from groups: alt.sys.pc-clone.dell (More info?) Been thinking of buying my wife a new laptop, as hers is showing its age at 5 years old. Should I buy now, or is there something coming over the horizon within the next few months that I should wait for? Would like to get something...

I am wanting to fix up my fx-8350 with A VERY nice cooler so I can overclock that thing like crazy.. I prefer the water cooling over that huge noctua famed nh-d14 so what would be a good water cooler for the cpu only? Also, i have a CONSAIR 750 Bronze Efficiency, and I want to make sure I have...

Archived from groups: rec.games.roguelike.nethack (More info?) OK, I'm getting really nervous. This wizard game is promising, I think. But I'm trying the protection racket and 11 hp is sooooo scary! I've been through the dungeon levels 1-5 and haven't found the entrance to the Mines yet. There...

Hey will my cx 430 80 plus bronze be able to run a r9 270x from sapphire ? some pc specs are : Cpu - a10-5800k @ 3.8Ghz Motherboard - Asrock fm2a85x Ram - 2x 8gb Patriot Viper 18666mhz HDD - Seagate 1tb 7200rpm I am currently running a GTX 460 2gb golden sample from gainward

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Hello, Games i play are Facebook games like Scrabble, Angry Birds and Poker. Are these drivers all necessary? Can i get rid of some or no? thanks AMD APP SDK Runtime AMD Display Driver AMD Steady Vidio Plug-In AMD Accelerated Video Transcoding AMD Drag and Drop Transcoding AMD Media Foundation...

i noticed that trinity is now available for desktops and the A10-5800k has built in 7660D graphics built it. i currently have a 6670 in my non gaming rig, if i were to switch to the A10 would the built in graphics xfire with the 6670 for a descent gaming experience?

When i try to install HP WLAN driver in my hp laptop, blue screen appears and it says *** Hardware Malfunction Call your hardware vendor for support *** The system has halted ***NMI: Parity Check / Memory Parity Error help will be appreciated windows xp pro

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Archived from groups: alt.sys.pc-clone.compaq (More info?) Is there any other operating system I could use rather than Microsoft.

I've got two panels from LCD monitors that gave up their lives to bad caps, which then subsequently took out all of the active devices around them. With the plummeting costs of new screens these days I junked them, but couldn't bear to throw out the glass. The panels were fine when they died...

Ok so I have a 2.2Ghz single core AMD based pc now. Its running 1Gb of ram and an ATI x700 pro 256mb vid card. Ive been thinking about upgrading and Ive been trying to decide if its worth it to upgrade or just wait and build a whole new pc. Here are the ideas ive been tossing around in my...

Recently because of lighting my power went of for a second, I unplugged everything hoping nothing had been hurt, when I turned my computer back on it seemed fine at first but started to stop responding and eventually froze. This happens everytime I turn it on and the length of time it works fine...

Hi everyone, I recently acquired a second SATA HDD. I would like to create a RAID 0 setup using the onboard SATA RAID of my Asrock 939Dual. The thing that concerns me is that the two drives are not alike at all. One is 250GB, SATAII 3Gb/s, NCQ; the other is 120GB, SATAI 1.5Gb/s, no NCQ. If I...

hi there, recently my computer crashed and windows xp has a corrupted file. So i decided it was time to upgrade to Windows 7! Anyway, so once i get my copy, i was planning on making another partition on my Hard drive (yes, i have enough space) and installing windows 7 on there. Sorry im...