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I have an Acer Aspire M5-581TG and I used to get transer speeds of up to 90MB/s. Recently, I upgraded the MSATA SSD and had to basically reinstall windows from scratch because there were complications with moving the operating system across. I think the switch may have caused some of the...

Hi. I have a i5 3450 cpu and a Cooler Master Hyper 212 evo. The max temperature of the cpu while intel burn test is running is 58 C. The room temperature is 20 C. It is normal a cpu temperature of 58 C with Hyper 212 evo ?

What is the wattage of an oc'ed 8320E? I want to know because of the system I'm building whether I'll be able to xfire two r9 290s with a 650w psu. I'm fairly comfortable with the quality of the psu, gold rated etc.

Hey guys. I've got all of my PC components laying infront of me, except for a PSU, because I'm unsure how much W it should deliver. What I got: Motherboard: Gigabyte Z97X-UD5H CPU: Intel Core i5-4690K GPU: GTX 690 RAM: GSkill 2x4GB Internal HDD: WD Black 1TB Internal SSD: Crucial M550...

It's my first time building a gaming computer and I can't decide between W7 and W8. I personally like W7 more than W8 but idk.. What do y'all think?

I'm building an office PC and I will be using this system to do some spread sheets, surf the web, and do some online banking. I have been told that $1200 is overkill for this, but I am just saying that it is the most I am willing to pay. I need this system to last a long time, run very cool...

Recently I added an extra tv IPTV box to my house. When I connected the wired cable from the router to the tv, the signal dropped out from the first wired connection. I have checked my download speed, and although on the low side, 5.5 this used to work fine initially. The router works perfectly...

Hi. I have an HP 630 Notebook, core i3 2.40ghz. Whenever I use DISM, or other apps like winreducer, rt 7 lite or when my cpu usage goes more than 20%, or I start playing some hd videos, the fan starts to spin loudly, resulting in a thermal shutdown. what should i do? it' a good fast laptop, but...

I have broken my keyboard and instead i am using an old keyboard it works fine but the only problem is when i am in game and holding down W to move forward then press the space bar my character stops moving meaning i need to re-press w... any solution on how to stop this happening? I am...

My ISP supplied modem/router is crap. I have a Western Digital N900 wireless gigabit router, and would like to use it as my network controller, and relegate the existing modem/router to being an ADSL2+ modem only, (using PPOE Relay?) however, currently I am experiencing issues I attribute to the...

I have just purchased TP-LINK TD-W8951ND router which is 150Mbps Wireless N ADSL2+ Modem Router. But now I have to change my ISP from ADSL to a cable based ISP. Can this router work with the new ISP? And if not, is there any workaround by which I can share the internet connection from cable to...

We already have a really good idea how desktop-bound graphics cards perform. But what about the mobile hardware typically derived from those same GPUs? We test four identically-configured notebooks and show how they scale in six popular games. GeForce GTX 780M, 770M, And 765M: Scaling Vs...

I have a Amd Athlon ii x4 640 that I would like to overclock, maybe 5%, but I'm not to sure how much I can. I also have a Sapphire Vapour-X 7770 Ghz Edition and would like to OC that to, how much should i overckock both? I also have a 550w Psu, so I'm good there. The Cpu has a stock Cpu fan and...

I an planning on getting the asus crosshair v formula z motherboard and scared that my antec sonata 3 case(500W max) will not power my new motherboard

Freshly built PC, go to turn it on, and nothing displays. I get the following sequence: BEEEEP, BEEEEP, BEEEEP, (2.5 sec pause) BEEEEP, BEEEEP, BEEEEP (pattern continues) I tried looking it up but just can't know if what some of what the articles say match up with the beeps I'm having. It's...

Evening, was wondering if this build is suitable for my budget of $1200 to $1300. I went for a complete package in terms of pricing. CPU and accessories. Gaming wise, Skyrim, Guild Wars 2, Batman Arkham Origins, and etc. Work wise, word, web, and etc. Questions What would I expect at 1080p...

Hey there, got the 840 PRO installed and sadly, I didn't think to run the benchmark before installing my games and what-not. I haven't written too much to the SSD - It's only got ~65gb of data written to it (battlefield 4, utility software, and OS) - more will come in the future. So, my...

I use MSI afterburner (the new beta) on my old computer . (with 8800GT). I just want to use it to watch the temperatures, but a few times white dots appeared on the screen , indicating a problem with the graphics card memory . I dont OC the card, i didnt change any settings. But i dont...

I've had a couple custom builds when I was younger, but I had a very experienced friend very slowly walk me through it. Unfortunately, he is not around any more, and I have very little knowledge of the hardware end of PCs. I made the mistake of buying an Alienware gaming laptop a couple of years...

Well, to start off, I would like to include some likely important information; I had never had this problem before until the bootmgr partition for my hard drive crashed,and I had to recover it using /scannow and /chkdisk. I have no idea what is causing this, and it gets fairly frustrating with...

Archived from groups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage (More info?) I have $10K to spend on a fast server. - It will run one application in a single process but is multi-threaded (+100 at any one time). - It will run under either Win2K or Linux, whichever is faster - The application doesn't...

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support (More info?) my computer automaticaly dials up to the internet and i dont know how to stop it from doing so. when ever i log on to my network it starts dialing, i press cancel then about 15 seconds later it starts up again how...

Which Powerline Router will you buy? I've seen the "Devolo dLAN 500 AVplus" is very fast, up to 500 Mbit/s. Have you some Powerline adapters?

Greetings, i am trying to connect a router to router to another router. the setup is as follows ROUTER A zyxel p-660hw-t1 mode router lan ip192.168.1.1 dhcp server on wireless on IP Pool Starting Address: 192.168.1.10 ROUTER B zyxel p-660hw-t1...

Hola, tengo una tarjeta controladora LSI mega 9271-8i y he instalado el programa MegaRaid Manager pero no tengo ni user ni password: ¿me podéis me ayudar?. Gracias. ------------------------------- , I have a controller card LSI mega 9271-8i and have installed the MegaRAID Manager but I have no...

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.general (More info?) greetings all and hello, after installing XP Pro Service pack 2 on my computer, it seems as though certain keystrokes cause the computer to momentarily "freeze" or run slow. It only happens when holding a key. The main...

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support (More info?) I have a computer running Windows XP SP1, and when I print remotly as the first administartor on the computer all is fine (and i am logged on localy at the time), how ever when another user set as administator tries...

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support (More info?) I'm running windows XP new installation, with ZoneAlarm Firewall, antivirus AV and Norton, I was able to install all of these programs with no problem, but when I run any of the antivirus the computer shuts down by...

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers (More info?) I formatted partioned my hard drive recently because the recovery CD did not work. When I tryed to install a fresh copy, I got a message during the end of set up. After the set up program scanned my drives. "Make sure you...

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support (More info?) Every 3 or 4 days, when I log back in after the computer has been on standby, I have an error message that says: "Unable to launch restart.exe" Most of my desktop has disappeared, and I am unable to restart my...

Archived from groups: rec.games.chess.computer (More info?) Hi all, I'm using a DGT board and Woodin 3.0 to play on ICC, however, I would really like to have "short notation" spoken for the moves. The long notation is really annoying but I can't seem to figure out if this is possible. Any ideas?

Hello, Hi, How I can connect with Wi-Fi on Spice QT-66 Mobile ? The network should be found but it could not be connected.

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics (More info?) And how do I change it back to English? -- Binyamin Dissen <bdissen@dissensoftware.com> http://www.dissensoftware.com Should you use the mailblocks package and expect a response from me, you should preauthorize the...

First off, I have 2 computers. I have a good gaming computer that i leave at my moms house but at my dads house i have an older computer, with 2gb ddr2 ram and a intel pentium E2200. I want to know if it would be worth upgrading the computer at all. Right now i have a geforce 9600 gt graphics...

is it possible that i could run 2 amd 7950s, wihtout a motherboard that has two pcie x16 slots? my motherboard only has 1

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.messenger (More info?) Hi, For some reason, aliases in MSN Messenger 7 are not displayed, only a person's e-mail address is. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling with no success. Any ideas? Thanks in advance, Ian

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics (More info?) I don't know what happened but all my menus in windows disappeared. I am talking about the File, etc.. menu in Explorer 6. My Start menu opens up but the secondary menu on the bottom arrow does not display the secondary menu...

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware (More info?) I have a Mitsumi FA404A floppy + USB 2.0 card reader, my MB Asus P5AD2E Premium, Win XP Pro SP2, when I plug the Mitsumi USB reader to the MB it takes forever to boot and still will not work, I know the reader works with my...

I'm looking for drivers and software for siemens gigaset m34 usb s440.

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.customize (More info?) How do I keep programs from being loaded on my desktop? ARG!!!!