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Recently, I've had very high temperatures in world of warcraft, running the game in DirectX9 mode and getting temperatures into the seventies Celsius. I've cleaned the thing fairly recently (two months ago) and that hasn't helped. What's all the stranger is that Bioshock Infinite, a much...

I've recently been experiencing some heat issues with my XFX Geforce9800GT, with temperatures under load cresting eighty degrees Celsius on a fairly regular basis. I've had some intermittent but fairly serious graphical issues (artifacts, severe screen distortion) and not only do I find it...

Is there an enormous gap in power between these two cards? I recently had the latter card (6600GT) blow up on me, and replaced it with the former (X1550) on my brother's system. Sharp declines in performance were seen in gaming on this computer. It's been running World of Warcraft, and on the...

I borrowed a computer from a co-worker's mother to try and take a look at it. I use a cable internet connection split amongst my computers with a linksys wired router. I disconnected one PC to hook up the PC I'm trying to take a look at, but unfortunately I can't seem to get an internet...

My card has been acting a bit funny lately. I've had it for about 6 months now, but just recently I hear the fan spinning up to keep up with some load that I'm not clear of the source. I'm playing world of warcraft with somewhat high settings, but I don't expect it to heat up this much. It's...

I just replaced my Geforce 6600GT with an MSI X1900 xt, and the new power connector threw me a bit...I see that the card came with an adapter to connect normal 4-pin molex connectors on two branches to power the card if you don't have a PCI-e specific PSU. My PSU is powerful enough (500W) to...

yeah, so all of a sudden instead of opening up automatically like its supposed to, it identifies itself to winxp as ADIR ROM and won't do jack. I tried it in several different ports and what not but it just fails each time. Having to use part of my Ipod shuffle as storage in the mean time -_-

Just got this board for my mother's new computer and configuring everything went very smoothly with the exception of the sound drivers! I loaded the realtek 97 audio drivers included with the motherboard but for some crazy reason windows has not yet chosen to recognize that any audio devices...

Buddy put together a new system for athlon 64. running epox 8kda3i, 3400+ clawhammer core, 2x512MB sticks of PNY pc3200 (ddr400) ram, geforce 6800GT. Issue that comes up is that C1 and C3 flash on the indicator on the mobo and it doesn't boot. He has tried switching ram around and only...

I reformatted my computer tonight. I used a windows xp cd that comes with SP2. When I try to update from current (9.0b) to 9.0c, the setup program asks me to agree to terms, then INSTANTLY says the installed compnents are ready to use. I go to check dxdiag and it displays 9.0b still...this...

is there any simple way to get rid of a browser hijacker? Whenever I open IE, I get this: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v260/dkamel/hijacker.jpg and its reset to that every time I close the browser. Anyone heard of this and/or can prescribe help? Already ran trendmicro housecall, so...

interesting issues with this board...granted its been awhile since I've put anything together but I dont believe I'm totally to blame <_< anyway the problems are twofold: A) the 1gig of ram is only registering as 768, yes I'm sure its not a 256 stick I just put in B)the 2500+ barton I just...

Alright, I bought an epox 8rda3i to replace my bro's 8rda3+ that fried...installed windows fine and everything, but for some god-awful reason, its not detecting the onboard LAN...network wizard is unable to run, and when I look in device manager, its not there...could it be switched off...

Ok, the high temp warning went off (or so Im told) about 2 hours ago. Now, when the power button is pressed, I can hear what I believe is the HDD spinning up, and the proc fan spins, but nothing else happens, specifically no *BEEP* that signifies the BIOS screen and bootup. Any way of knowing...

okay, I also just configured my network so one PC has two NICs and routes the internet to my secondary pc...reason being my linksys befsr41 blowz. Anyway, Hmm...to get a shared internet connection, I had to turn off the internet-connected PC's windows firewall...What port do I need to open so...

its strange...I got it so I could run my router to specifications, which from what I understand means running CABLE MODEM -> comp -> comp -> router -> other comps in the house...anyway, I bought a Belkin pci NIC tonight and when I installed it...my onboard LAN started saying a network cable was...

this is so embarrasing, I dont' know how to figure out a problem with hard-drive designations...anyway, here's the skinny. The computer in question has two hard drives in it, one, a WD 7200RPM IDE 80GB, the other an IBM 7200 RPM 27GB. I have the jumper in the WD set to "master w/ slave...

how do I uninstall/deactivate CnQ? Im trying to install a 2nd RAM module but I know they aren't compatible...also, would the interference CnQ causes make my computer unable to boot up at all?

ok, it says in my manual I can have either 1 SS/DS chip in any slot on my board of DDR400 RAM, an SS/DS in slot 1 and then an SS/DS in slot 2 or 3, or 3 SS. I only currently have one slot filled with a 512 stick, but I dont know the difference between an SS or a DS (I just know it means Double...

My mobo's manual says I can have either an SS DIMM in slot one, three SS DIMMs in all 3 slots, or an SS DIMM and a DS DIMM...Im not sure what to make of this. Does this mean I couldn't add just one more stick of regular DDR400 RAM? (I currently have just one in)

ok, according to my mobo's manual, i can have 1 SS/DS DIMM on slot 1, or a DS/SS on slot 1 and a DS/SS on slot two, or I can have 3 SS, one on each slot. Is DS/SS referring to single/dual-channel? if so, does this mean I can't add just one more stick of ram to my comp? (my processor doesn't...

Okay, first let me say that I dont' OC cards, I'm afraid enough to do it to my proc but I got over that one. So the first rule is that Ill be running whichever card at stock speeds. Next, I dont' have Pci-e support on my motherboard, if that's relevant (I've read alot about that format in...

Does the doubled cache of the AMD64 3200+ clawhammer core give it an overall advantage over the newcastle core? (512KB cache, but it runs .2 ghz faster stock)

ok, I just don't know how to do it :confused: I tried to access it through my nvidia system utility but that just gave me a headache and I never found anything about temperatures there...is there a program that reports your temps while in windows? (the same way PCHealth does in BIOS)

I noticed in a review I read for this processor that a person complained because it doesn't support dual-channel DDR...I always thought it was based on the motherboard, but now I don't understand so well. I have an Epox 8KDA3J motherboard and the AMD64 3200+ with the 1MB L2 cache. is this...

I currently have a 512 MB geil pc2700 ddr RAM stick in my pc. if I get the same capacity ram at the same speed but from a different manufacturer, will it cause problems?

I recently installed the Biostar M7NCD mainboard for a friend of mine (who wasn't shopping for quality, obviously :P) but I'm trying to install a new hard-drive and despite the correct jumper settings, it hasnt' detected the HD yet. Now I figure one thing I can try is seeing if it is detected...

ok, I get to the setup but thar's this thang goin on where it can't access the HD. I read that you sometimes have to install a device driver, but this mobo didn't come with a floppy disk. Do I need to install the motherboard drivers first? or...is something possibly wrong with the harddrive

Okay, I'm currently trying to hook up a friend's homemade computer, and I'm hitting a bit of a snafu. When we press the power button, the proc-fan spins for just a second, the LEDs power for just a second, then all goes quiet. I've tried the following: -replacing the power supply -resetting...