"started shortly after you installed windows.." Did you install the proper SB/AHCI/Raid drivers for your chipset? Make sure you have the latest drivers for that. If you have a mechanical drive then it sounds like it could be going bad. I had a mechanical HD that would pause and lock the co...
Packard Bell!? Holy smokes, I think I just saw a ghost! I didn't even think Packard Bell was still around. I used to have one about 20 years ago. That is seriously cool.
You should have just used one large power supply. Keep it simple. Although I have had good results with piggyback power supplys like this one. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817206001 It is out of stock but you can find similar if you look around. They have a passthrough cable...
GTA V has been remade to appeal to the masses ala Call of Duty style. In GTA 3 when you failed a mission you respawned at a hospital and you had to essentially restart the mission over from the beginning. With GTA V the game is saved at preset places in the mission so that if you die you start on th...
Enabling Vsync in the game or application always seemed to help with the tearing in my xfire rig. You gain a little latency which isn't great for twitch online shooters but for everything else its okay.
One time I was staying at a friends house and he didn't have any internet but we found a weak unsecured signal. I connected to the persons router and flashed their firmware with DDWRT so I could increase the TX power of the router and basically adjusted everything to my liking. The person was none t...
Anyone who has the same brand of everything screams fanboy to me and it looks cheesy to boot. Whats wrong with Rosewill? I had many a good Rosewill products on the cheap.
I had the X-FI Xtreme Gamer version of the card. I had the EXACT same problem. Had to take out the X-FI and go back to onboard audio. This is why you don't buy creative products anymore. This is why other companies like ASUS were able to hop right into the sound card market and take Creative's lunch...
Keyboard and hdd are dead? Sounds like a dead southbridge. If it isn't under warranty, and as a last resort, there are forums about heat-gunning the southbridge. Same method they use for bringing back xbox 360's from the dead. Google "fix southbridge laptop", or something along those lines...
Hmm... I have never owned a X BOX 360 or PS3 so pardon my ignorance. Can't you just take the hard drives and pop them in a PC and copy them? http://www.pcworld.com/article/150970/upgrade_your_xbox_360s_hard_drive_on_the_cheap.html In this article, it shows you can remove the hard drive from the encl...
I guess if America got it's act together and started haveing 100mbps and gigabit internet connections like they do in Japan and most of Europe for 20 bucks then compression wouldn't really be an issue at all. Maybe with some bigger Movie files like blu-ray, but music storage and compression is littl...
I noticed Daveburt had the PCI Express mhz highlighted as one of the things that changes when you increase that 200mhz base clock. Does that value get higher as you overclock the bus automatically like the HT and NB?
Well, I still can't get a stable overclock. I tried a 400mhz O.C. by increasing the multiplier. I tried stock voltages. I tried increasing the voltage by 0.025v-0.100v (should be plenty for a 400mhz O.C ?). Not stable in prime95. I tried this with 2 sticks at 800mhz also at 1066mhz adjusting memory ...
I am currently using unganged because I heard that it was better for multi-tasking. I have not yet tryed ganged mode. Thank your for suggestion. I will try it and let you know. I fixed my post up a little bit. Hope its easier to read. I didn't realize I had typed so much and I'm still kinda new to f...
Ok, I just got a phenom II 940 BE. I replaced a X2 5600+. The motherboard I am using is a gigabyte MA790FX-DS5. I am using the latest bios revision F8. I am using 4 x 1gb of DDR2-1066. I cannot get this processor to overclock at ALL. I tried setting my ram to 1066mhz in the bios and I increased the ...
Sometimes the various drivers that come with your "new" hardware are very old. When I do a new build use the included drivers to get me up and running if windows cannot find the drivers, then I check for drivers updates at the mobo manufacturers website, videocard website, sound card, etc....
