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So........this is sort of an odd situation. I went to shut down the system in my signature as I do every night. Right before it shut off however, it went to a BSOD, and rebooted automatically. On the motherboard splash screen, there was a new graphic that said "4th Core Activated!" or something...

My motherboard for the system in my sig died, so I took the opportunity to do a bit of an upgrade and grab a reliable PSU. I'm pretty sure that I got parts that will give me good performance for the money, but I figure it never hurts to get a second opinion on parts, so I'd appreciate any input...

I've been looking at some of the benchmarks and price brackets, and it seems that with the price slashing going on, the AMD procs have plummeted below the cost of their Intel brethren, and though I hear everyone preach Intel constantly, that usually doesn't take into account price difference...

I have a lot of computer stuff sitting around gathering dust or not being as useful as it should be due to missing parts, so I've been hunting around as to where I could buy those parts, without resorting to probably mislabeled and broken parts from ebay. I checked the usual places like newegg...

I've been plagued with problems with the system in my sig. About a year ago, I had a problem where when I turned on the computer, everything would turn on and beep correctly, but no display to the monitor. I took it to a shop, and apparently one of the wires in my PSU had come undone, so it...

I got my new hard drive in today, so I figured I may as well do some work on my computer while it was inside anyway. I notice I still had my old 520 modstream laying around, and decided to do some work on it. Previously I had to remove it, as my computer would turn on and POST but nothing would...

I haven't kept up with hardware trends in way longer than I should have, and as such I have no idea what is common now. Being as I managed to bork my 520 Modstream, I've been running with my previous psu, a 480 thermaltake, in the system in my sig. It works, but it's very hot, and very, very...

Ever since I upgraded my desktop to 64bit Vista I've had ongoing severe sound issues that I have yet to be able to solve. The onboard sound worked and sounded fine when I had XP, but my computer decided to take a dump and corrupt the windows installation to the point of not being able to even...

Putting this in general as I'm not sure what's wrong. Fitting with my luck, 3 days after my desktop died, my laptop took a shit. I was showing my friends a song on Rhapsody when it locked up and kept repeating the same 3 second clip of a song over and over, so I turned off the computer by...

Anyone have any experience in dealing with this error. I tried to do some research on the error, but all I found out was that there is a stupid amount of problems that this could point to. I can't boot into windows because of it saying that a system config file is missing/corrupted so I need to...

Earlier today I was during my usual perusing of some of the picture galleries on break when firefox locked up when I clicked the button to go to the next picture. I went to end it in the process managed, but the program seemed to close itself and I didn't worry about it. Later I went to reopen...

After trying to figure alternative ways to get wireless internet on my desktop without buying an adapter, I decided for simplicity's sake, just to bite the bullet and drop the cash on one. The one computer facet I've never been amazing with is networking, so I'm unsure of which adapter to get...

Now that I'm home from college, I'm running into a problem that I never thought about before. We recently moved, and got FIOS, however, the modem/router thing they gave us, is in my grandmother's den downstairs, so everything I have has to be wireless. It's not possible to move it, and it's not...

So after months of a dead computer that frustrated me to the point of almost throwing the damn thing away and starting over, I took it to a local computer shop to find out that all along, the problem was my PSU. He didn't want to disassemble it in case I still needed it, but it was easy enough...

I currently have a 320mb 8800GTS in the system in my sig. I'm doing my yearly upgrades around may/june and I had planned to snag a quad core processor, finally switch to vista, and get myself a TB of hard drive space. I was wondering however how much mileage my card still had left in it. I plan...

My desktop (the computer in my sig) broke about 2 months ago, and I have yet to be able to figure out what broke or fix it. At this point, I'm looking at 2 options that I have. There is a computer shop near me that will diagnose the problem for $40, afterwards I would still need to shell out...

So, last month, I had my desktop die on me. I got a machine check exception and it never booted again. It would turn on, but nothing displaying on the monitor. After checking out several tech forums and contacting EVGA, the consensus was that my motherboard was dead (nature of the problems in...

I recently got a new laptop with Vista on it and it doesn't seem as bad as most people said it would be except for 1 small issue. Occasionally when playing a game (started with certain maps in CS:S, just happened in CoD4, nothing else so far) the key input will stop working partially or...

I'm ordering a new laptop today for college. As I don't feel like lugging my 60+ pound desktop home on the weekends, I'm looking to get a laptop that has enough graphical performance to allow me to still play most of my games. It won't be my primary system obviously, so I won't need enough power...

My main computer recently imploded, so I've been stuck on a laptop with integrated video for the last week. Looking for games to play, I discovered a little gem I had forgotten about: Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds Saga. For those who have never heard of it, it's an RTS based on the AoE 2...

Just got a letter in the mail saying that I was able to get housing for the spring semester at my school, so I'm going to need a laptop to go along with it. I will have my desktop at school so it won't be replacing that, but I live close enough to go home most weekends, and during those times my...

A few days ago on the system in my sig, I left my computer for a few minutes and came back to a BSOD displaying a Machine Check Exception afterwhich my computer has not been able to boot. I did some research and found that this problem can have a wide range of sources, many relating to how the...

Earlier today I booted up my computer, hopped on vent with some of my friends, and went to go let my dog in from outside. When I came back, I saw on my moniter a BSOD with the message Machine Check Exception on it. The machine went to reboot itself like normal, except when it tried...

After living my first semester of college at home and hating it, I decided to move on campus starting in January. When thinking about things that I would need in preparation for the move, I decided that having a laptop would make things far easier for me. While I will have my desktop (specs...

I upgraded my system, and I wanted to put my Coolermaster Aquagate Mini in my new setup once I made sure everything was working. Today I went to uninstall the aquagate off my old setup. It seemed to be going fine, until I went to pull the water block off of the motherboard. It seemed a little...

Not sure where this would actually go, considering it's more of a company question than a hardware question, but this is the closest I could find. I had my second video card in 2 months decide to fry itself about a month ago. I contacted RMA, and due to the trouble, they said that they would pay...

I've had a Logitech MX1000 for a while now and I LOVE it, however, yesterday I started having some extremely odd problems. While making my usual haunts to various forums, I noticed it seemed like I was scrolling oddly fast. I checked, and sure enough, it had somehow been changed to a 12 line...

My brand new E6420, EVGA NF68-T1, and 4 gigs of Mushkin eXtreme Performance came in today, and I'm looking to start overclocking with it as soon as I get my video card back from an rma. What I'm wondering though is, how high is it possible to expect the processor to go on the stock air cooling...

A spark due to static in the air from a thunderstorm burned the connections off of my brand new 7950GT. Barring that evga will accept the second rma from me in 2 months (this card was sent to me as a replacement for my 7900 GT KO that burnt up like most of the early 7900 gt cards), I'm going to...

So I started installing my new motherboard today, and I encountered a little problem when I went to plug everything in. All the motherboard I've used until now have a 20 pin connector, and a 4 pin connector above the processor. However, this motherboard has a 24 pin connector (workable, my psu...

I had a spark fly between my radiator and my case the other day and kill my computer. When I boot up, all the lights and things come on for a second but then shut off. I'm having my new parts come in tomorrow, but I just starting wondering if I should be concerned that mabye the power supply...

I've been looking for a new case to go with the rest of the parts I order tonight, as my Lanboy unfortunately cannot fit my Aquagate mini radiator in (I need about half an inch more clearance on the top or the side, depending which way I mount it). I've been looking at the Thermaltake Tsunami...

From what I've read over the past couple days as I've been looking for upgrades, it seems that the popular thing to do nowadays is getting one of the cheap, easily overclockable intels and pushing them as far as they can go. I've though about doing this, but the I also need my computer to be...

After having my graduation party today and tallying up the money I got from it, I've decided to do major overhauls to my computer. Right now, while working, tends to not be the most stable computer around, and is prone to quirkyness. I'm looking to upgrade it for college next year to be fairly...

It's getting to the point in the year where I usually look into making some upgrades to my computer, and this year I can possibly stretch a bit more as I will be getting some money for graduation as well as for my birthday. I've been trying to figure out what upgrades would get me the biggest...

I used to have a 7900GT KO in my system, until, like so many other 7900s, it died spectacularly one night when I was playing WoW. The system would reboot whenever it got past the Windows XP loading screen, and I was having artifacting and odd colors all the way down to the BIOS. Fast forward to...

I've bee having some ongoing problems with my computer, mostly random reboots with the little Windows explanation thing coming up saying that it was a stop error caused by a device driver (For some reason that computer doesn't get blue screens). While it didn't say which one, I figured that it...

Ever since my video card died (Silly 7900 series), I've been on my dad's computer, and as such, it has seen FAR more use than it ever did since I built it. (Used from parts from my old computer, so it was fully capable of running games still. The problems have been mostly severe artifacting...

I've been on my dad's computer ever since my video card died spetacularly back in feb (finally getting around to rmaing it tomorrow). His computer is essentially my old computer with a few different things tossed in (new sound card, hard drive, and cd drives). Lately however, I've been having a...

I've had various artifacting problems with my video card for a while (I need to RMA it to eVGA, but now that Burning Crusade is out, I can't spare the downtime). Normally these can be solved with an alt+tab, but it occasionally requires a reboot. Such was the case about half an hour ago. I...