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I thought a fun Christmas project would be the resurrection of the the old family computer, a ‘Gateway Performance AS 650 tb3’. To give some back story, about a year ago I dusted off the internal components, when I put the computer back together it booted fine but crashed a few seconds latter...

Hello there. Recently I have picked up a Vectrex system, but I have a problem with a broken joystick in the controller. Luckily the rest of the controller is fairly easy to fix up, but the joystick isn't as easily replaceable as it is no longer made or sold separately. Recently I found a...

I am tired of listening to the awful speakers of my Philips 43PUS7303 so I want to connect it to my old amplifier my dad gave me. Problem is, the amp is more than 40 years old. The amp in question is a Philips 22 AH 561 and I have no idea what to do. Google didn't really help so that is why I am...

Hello, I had a question for anyone who may know a bit more about Texas Instruments. Recently I found a small leather booklet with 4 pages mostly filled with special strips. Closer inspection led me to seeing that the backs may be readable like film, yet I don't know what they are or what they go...

Hi, I've got an old Packard Bell Multimedia PC I've been trying to get working again for old time's sake. After replacing all of the capacitors for fresh ones, sourcing some parts and thoroughly cleaning the board and connectors, I was just about to fire this thing up. However, on a first...

So im looking to buy new videocard and i decided to buy Palit gtx 1060 3gb but would it be working on my mobo which is ASRock H87M Pro4 (CPUSocket)

My computer has started randomly freezing as of yesterday (even while starting up sometimes). As well as this the audio has become crackly which is not a problem with the speakers. As well as this 90% of the time when I start my computer up there is no input to the monitors or keyboard/mouse and...

I just bought a new GTX 1060 and put it in my PC, the lights on the GPU are lit up but my PC won't detect it in GPU-Z, CPU-Z and the NVIDIA driver download won't detect it. Can anyone help?

For some reason when I switched to a new system, my dvd drive wont take power and it prevents my system from powering on at all. I'm thinking it might be the power supply, as that's the only reason I can think of that it wouldn't boot. I run a 650 watt EVGA now but had a 750 antec, with a 970...

help stop my games from crashing mid game and my computer crashing after my specs Card name: AMD Radeon R7 200 Series Processor: AMD FX(tm)-6100 Six-Core Processor DirectX Version: DirectX 12 motherboard: MSI 990FXA Gaming RAM: 2 4gb Kingston amd also my radeon update is 17.7.1

Hi, I am thinking of putting together a Desktop PC for my usage in our new home(such as ebook reading,PDF,document,videos,youtube and movie viewing and very occasional gaming) within a month with the components mentioned in the link http://.Please share your valuable opinions regarding what can...

For almost a year i had been using my monitor that has a DVI-D port with a gtx960 that has a DVI-I Port. Today i have used an adapter from DVI-I to VGA and conected my old CRT monitor, it runed fine so i dissconected it, but when i tried to conect my DVI-D monitor it just dosn´t work, it says...

So... I have built myself new desktop PC, but I'm using old HDD that has Windows XP on it (I'll buy a new one but for beginning it should be ok), but I want to install Windows 10. So when I start to install W10 I choose language, and press "Install now". Then It says "A media driver your...

Hi i recentely put in a new motherboard the MSI Z97S SLI Krait Edition. It booted up fine but when i put in the disc with the drivers it didn't show any drivers and i read that it has some problems with windows 10. so now im kinda stuck with no internet and other drivers and i was wondering if...

I have already successfully built one gaming PC and had no problems installing WIndows through the CD drive but on this new build I keep trying to install Windows from the CD and it keeps telling me the same thing: Reboot and Select proper Boot device or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device...

Hello, new to the forum. Before I get flamed and/or trolled. I have searched several threads, but I can't find an exact answer to my question. I am new to hardware (got my A+ May last year w00t ^_^). I've been reading up on Intel socket types and this is what I know: Intel 1155 (legacy)...

Hello all, When attempting to repair my PC, I dropped it a small distance(about 2 inches). Everything was fine, but my video card was bent at an odd angle. I unscrewed it and tried to remove it, but it was stuck in the PCI-E slot. I tried to push the tab in, but it wouldn't come out. I...

dell xps 410 dual core 1.86ghz 1gb ram 250 gb hdd nvidia geforce 7300le what can i do to it and not spend more than 300 dlls to run games decently. should i get a new pc instead?

Hello guys.I bought my PC like one year ago and back then i was playing CS:GO with 300 fps while playing on ultra and now im playing at very low and getting only 80-150 fps and its kinda unplayable because its only stuttering.I decided that my GPU is broken or something and downloaded BF4 and...

Hello, I plan to build a new machine with parts from 2 separate computers. Questions I have pertain to the SSD's and HD's. I plan on taking the SSD's and HD's from a win7 machine and placing them into a win 8.1 machine with data still on them I.E steam, origin, Uplay games because...

I have gigabyte GA-Z68AP-D3 Intel i5 3550 2*4gb ram @ 1333hz seagate 1tb hdd dvd gigabyte gtx 970 g1 i already have a 500w psu but im worried that it will damage the parts. any recommendations?

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I´m having some problems with my radeon r9 270x card. It works fine while i am doing some basic things on the computer but when i play just any game it crashes (black screen) and when i check the card it looks like it has no power anymore (all the fans get turned off) so i was thinking i have...

So my new motherboard wont support my CD-Drive, so do i have to install my drivers straight away, because if not i will install them from the internet (download). Thanks, And Merry Christmas!