Hey guys, I'm having quite the time with an older system, to start..
Athlon XP tbred 2400 @ 2ghz
Winfast K7S mobo
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128mb
2gb pc3200
The computer originally had a geforce ti4200 and the video card was getting so hot you could fry an egg on it. Of course the result was...
I was given my sister's Dell Dimension 8100 pc (P4 2GHz, geforce 2mx, WD 40GB HD etc.) to format with a fresh install of WinXP. Simple enough task, except whenever the XP setup finishes to 100% it states "windows setup cannot continue, disk may be damaged."
Now the the hard drive was working...
in the past month or so usually when I alt-tab out of WoW I get this screen and in game texture corruption. Even when closing the game the corruption remains on the desktop. Is this an issue with my card or perhaps a problem with the drivers? (I've tried cat 5.1 - 5.3's same thing happens)...
My mom was fucking around and unplugged the extension cord to my brothers computer while it was running. When turning it on again it can't find the hard drive and I get a boot disk failure. Going in the bios and trying to detect the HD does nothing. Is the hard drive or something else fried?
It...
ok well maybe some simple enough questions :
my friend wants win xp on his comp, he currently is running 2k. He has two hard drives, a 40 GB and 20 GB. He wants windows on the 40 GB and the 20 GB to be storage. Is it as simple as just popping in the win xp cd and installing or do you have to...