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So I discovered my RAM went "bad" and replaced it. Now I am not sure if something else is wrong because my computer takes FOREVER to boot up. (I am running AMD XP 1700, 512 megs of ram, 80 gig hard drive (10 gig allocated for Linux and 70 for WinXP), and I am on the school network through...

Hi, I am looking to buy a new mobo and CPU. My old one is a classica athlon 900 and chaintech 7-ata slot a mobo. Basically for few months this worked very fast. But since then i have had random system freezes. I tried every fix on the net. STill happens, all OSs I try all software fixes...

I just bought a Kt7a-raid and an AMD 1.333(266). I got the 3R bios but noticed that a few things were strange. 1. The bottom half of the kt7_3r.txt file looked corrupted. 2. When I went into the bios and set instant off I still had to wait the 4 sec before the system shut down. (This was fixed...

does an asus rampage 2 gene support 8gb ddr3 [corsiar dominator 1600mhz]

I recently purchased the above lemon and (other than the HD LED not shutting off), it seems to crash whenever I try to use a 3D application (Unreal Tournament, et al. I've tested the GFX card on another board, it works fine), it crashes after ~10 minutes. The bios drivers are updated as are the...

I fell to thinking one dark and wintery evening, huddled around the fire with a good bottle of bran... Ahem, What I was thinking was that when the P4 detects its core temperature going outside safe parameters, it throttles its clock speed down until the temp. falls back into safe operating...

I want to buy a new system with an AMD-Athlon processor. I informed myself about the different Chipsets and now I can't decide: AMD 760 VIA KT266 VIA KT133 With or without DDR-Ram MSI or Epox or wait until the new NForce or SIS 735 chipsets will come out, but when will that be? Please help!!!

WHile reading the installation manual for my new Swiftech HSF, I stumbled across this amazing crash test: <A HREF="http://www.swiftnets.com/MC462.htm" target="_new">http://www.swiftnets.com/MC462.htm</A> scroll down to paragraph "2". Here is a quote (go to the site for the pics): This really...

Lets See... VIA sucks it couldn't beat the AMD 760. I wonder if its worse or equal to the ALi Magik1 whick is $15 cheaper to make. Check out my RIG <A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/rcf84/home.html" target="_new">Rcf84's celeron machine</A>

Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.videocards.ati (More info?) ATI AiW Radeon 32MB vs. ATI AiW 7500 64MB What kind of performance differences can be expected from these two cards on a ABIT BH6, Pentium III 500 system?

MY COMPUTER WILL NOT RECONGIZE MY ATI RADEON HD 3870X2 CARD. CAN'T FIND AN INSTALL DISK OR DRIVERS I CAN COPY TO WINDOWS. HELP!

I recently bought a MSI P67A-G43 motherboard: http://ncix.com/products/?sku=59095&vpn=P67A-G43%20%28B3%29&manufacture=MSI%2FMicroStar and a Kingston HyperX 2X4GB 1600Mhz 1.65v memory: http://ncix.com/products/?sku=57869&vpn=KHX1600C9D3K2%2F8GX&manufacture=Kingston&promoid=1301 I just realized...

I am extremely dissapointed with the socket-5 article because of a few reasons not addressed by THG 1)Windows of any kind requires a minimum of 40MB to run after booting up, this is with all options in startup disabled. 2)With usual options ON, the boot up requirements of memory goes up as...

I have built 2 systems this year. One AMD T-bird for myself and one Intel PIII for my partner. In all the arguements for Intel vs AMD processors, people forget the chipsets. The only chipset for the AMD T-bird right now is from Via and it has not been stable for me. At first it was crashing...

I'm in need of a new motherboard, and this http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=5598534&CatId=2323 caught my eye. I know my processor (AMD phenom II X4 940) will fit on the AM2+ socket, but will my gfx card (Nvidia GeForce GTX 550 ti 2gb) work w/ this...

Can PC100 ram be put in a computer that is already using PC133 ram? Can any computer with an IDE hard drive also use an EIDE hard drive?

So many messages(promotional) are coming to 9961642843.How to stop these?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Pulse-650W-Computer-Power-Supply-PSU-PFC-12CM-Fan-PPS-650BR-/140903967308?pt=UK_Computing_PowerSupplies_EH&hash=item20ce87ea4c MY parts so far Xfx hd 7850 2gb Fx 8320 Zalman z11 plus 8gb patriot g2 ram Western digital caviar green 2tb And I plan to buy the Asus...

So i am building my first rig and decide to join.I just want to know about part compatibility. Also if you have any other suggestions i will gladly accept. Here are the parts i am planning: Gigabyte GA-Z77-DS3H, Socket-1155 MOBO Intel® Core i5-2500K Processor CM Storm Trooper Gaming Big Tower...

Ok so I have been reading through many of the the topics here to find the right SSD and I have come down to 2 choices My motherboard is ASUS M4A89GTD PRO (w/ SATA 6GB/s support) The choices I have come up with 1. Patriot Wildfire...

Ok..I know I'm as new as can be on toms hardware, but I do know a few things. One of those things is that Alienware is a complete rip-off. So why am I even asking this question you ask? I decided I wanted to get a new PC for gaming. I gave myself a $1500 budget and I had a pretty good idea...

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I have an intel i950 processor and I was looking at getting a mobo for it. Saw this mobo on sale at my local computer shop for sale: http://www.canadacomputers.com/product_info.php?cPath=342&item_id=037408 Is it a good board or is there something better.

i am building my first computer and have an arock x58 extreme 3 motherboard, i have installed the cpu, dvd drive, case, cpu kuhler h2o 920 watercooler, and powersupply, i have not installed the ram, graphics card and harddrivebut i wanted to see if the water cooler and fans power up so turned...

I have a 900 thunderbird althon ASUS A7v Socket A motherbird IBM destar hard drive. Tried to install 98se/NT4/windowsME I tried that also. Im still getting failures. I havent download the latest drivers from the Asus site. But i have tried changing the placement of the harddrive and cdrom. I...

Hello, I own a piece of industrial equipment (a beta gauge, which measures the thickness of materials on the fly by passing radiation through them) and I am told that I could get it to work by finding a Windows 98 motherboard with 2 ISA (?) slots. Anybody?

My friend wants me to build a new computer. He uses 3 monitors and does web design from home easily 8-10 hours a day. He uses adobe photoshop, and dabbles with 3d rendering and would like to get into gaming. He often multi tasks with netflix in the middle of projects for breaks. He already has...

How do I know how much power do I need? Intel: Core i7 3770K 3.5GHz LGA 1155 Processor RAM: 2 G.Skill Ripjaws x series 8GB Motherboard: ASUS Maximus V Gene LGA 1155 Z77 mATX Intel Motherboard Aftermarket fan for intel: Cooler master hyper 212 plus Hard drive: I don't know which one to...

Archived from groups: alt.games.nintendo.pokemon (More info?) Hello, I was wondering how you got destiny bond on a shuppet? I've tried breading a shuppet with a koffing but it only knew knock off. Any suggestions?

Topic title really. Looking for anti-static tools that would come with a magnetic screwdriver(s) and if necessary other parts with magnetic properties.

Hello guys, I have yet come in contact with another odd error. This tine I get the error "b2" on my mother board which says "Legacy Option ROM initilization". I have no idea what this means, all I know is that I only get it when I have my video card plugged in. It was working fine until it went...

Hello every body .. I hope everything is OK .. I decide to build a new mid-range gaming computer that is suitable with my budget .. I just need to know if these spec can run games like BF3 on 1366×768 ultra setting. CPU : intel core I5 3550 3.4 GHz Motherboard : GA-P75-D3 << economical board...

I installed ASUS Support DVD All in one then this below problem happens my computer screen shows blank when im starting computer what to do.... 1)I change the DDR2 RAM from slot1 to slot2 but still sound comes. 2)I change the Jumper location CLRTC as mentioned in Manual of Asus MB.. 3)But BIOS...

This is my motherboard: ASUS M4A77TD AM3 AMD 770 ATX [http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131603 Under "Memory Standard", the specs listed are: DDR3 1800(O.C.)/1600(O.C.)/1333(O.C.)/1066 What is the significance of the "O.C." for all but the 1066 speeds of RAM? Will I have...

Hello, I have a Brother printer 2040 that has given good service for many years. Now, suddenly, it will print out only one page of a long document and not do the rest. Attempts to print the rest result in a bunch of pages coiled around the printer tube at the back. Do I need a complete new...

I'm wanting to build a gaming PC that's no more than $600. I need it to be able to support games such as Diablo III, Guild Wars 2, Sims 3, League of Legends, and such. Any suggestions?

Hello, I ordered a set of gskill ram (G.SKILL Sniper 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model F3-12800CL9D-8GBSR) to upgrade my rig, but after installing them I get a 'no signal' output from the monitor. I tried each stick individually and also get the same...

I recently installed windows 7 ultimate 64bit from Windows xp pro 32bit. here are my specs Asus p5n E sli MB intel dual core 2 E6600 Patriot ram 2gig x 2 sticks DDr2 PC2 6400 2 hard drives used as Raid 0 windows 7 installed, one drive windows xp installed chipsets are nvidia nforce 650i...

Motherboard:ASUS P8Z77-V PRO LGA 1155 Intel Z77 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX VGA: 2x SLI GIGABYTE GV-N670OC-2GD GeForce GTX 670 2GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP CPU:Intel core i5 3570k CPU cooler:Hyper 212 EVO PSU:CORSAIR HX Series HX750 750W ATX12V 2.3 / EPS12V 2.91 SLI Ready...

I'm sick of EVGA and their terrible tech support. I'm wondering how the Asus Gen3 boards are? I hear from multiple people that they love Asus in general. I was also looking at multiple vendors and feedback; it seems the response to them are very positive. Does anyone have any of the 3 Asus Gen3...