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Thanks for the suggestion. In the end, she had three choices:

1. Send back one part for testing ($10 shipping)

2. Send back the whole thing for testing ($60 shipping)

3. Send the whole...

The video cards have two PCI-E power connectors. I was troubleshooting by phone, so I don't know for sure if my brother remembered to plug all of the power connectors back in every time (it was the...

Hi all,

Long time no see! My brother's girlfriend recently bought a tricked out compute from CyberPower PC. The only problem is... is fails to boot frequently, or at least, the video fail to...

I'm at my wit's end trying to get our new color laser printer to play nice on our XP network... here's the story.

We have about 25 computers, all running XP, on our local network. One printer has...

*SUPERGALACTIC BUMP"

Well, about two years later and I'm running into the same problem - same 160 gig hard drive with 15 - 45 - 90 GB partitions for OS, programs, and data, respectively. Last...

Sound advice. Unfortunately, I recently *did* lose a good chunk of vacation photos :mad: . Dumped them to my hard drive, went and filled up another memory card worth of photos a few days later. ...

I recently purchased a Biostar NF4 4X-A7 motherboard (specs here: http://www.biostar.com.tw/products/mainboard/board.php?name=NF4%204X-A7 ) to replace a dead Gigabyte board. After getting things...

Well, I've decided to err on the side of cheapness. I called a Computer Renaissance store that's about a 45 minute drive from where I live, and told the guy there what the situation was. He said...

Well I finally got my new motherboard (Biostar NF4 4X-A7) and 5900GT PCI-E video card. I went with this motherboard so that I could use all my old components without having to spend a whole lot of...

Just to follow up on my own thread here - this morning, our regular UPS driver dropped off my new motherboard and video card. For the video card, I snatched up a BFG GeForce 7600GT (...

Hi,

I'm planning on either replacing a dead motherboard with one that is compatible with my old hardware (AMD64 CPU, older DDR memory, IDE hard drives). That I can do for less than $50. My other...

Hmm... I was going by the information I found at this site:

http://www.bl0g.co.uk/index.php?dt=050824

My previous build used an MSI motherboard, and the hard drive controller died on it (which took out my RAID array and a year's worth of digital imaging), so forgive me if I don't go with MSI ;) ...

All this info is really helping me along, keep it coming, please :D

Ok, so avoid ECS & PC Chips, JetWay even sounds cheap to me lol... I'm starting to be persuaded to join the multi-core...

Well, I think my plan for now is this: buy a new motherboard from a different brand, try to re-use the CPU and memory for now, and get a better video card. In looking at the prices for the dual-core...

That won't work in this case, because the ancient PSU form the old computer doesn't have the extra 4-pin ATX power connector. The PSU seems ok since it did boot the old system just fine.

The fact...

Just an update to my own reply there - I tried the power supply in a different older computer, and it worked just fine. I also tried taking the motherboard out of the case, just setting it on some...

Well, I'd already tried removing the CMOS battery for a bit. One site also said to check the BIOS chip, but this one is permanent. I haven't tried the PSU with another computer, I do have an old...

Hi all,

I'm already on my second motherboard, Gigabyte GA-K8NS. The first one died after about 6 months or so and was replaced by the shop where I bought it (for a $50 service fee, but saved me...

Hello all,

I was recently checking over a computer that a coworker of mine thought had gotten zapped by lightning. Turned out it was just one corrupt file, but I had to run a chkdsk on another...

Thanks for the reply -

I went up to visit him yesterday, PC still sitting with the blue screen (monitor off of course). He had pulled out the network cable (unknown to me), and I just rebooted...

Hi everyone,

Not sure if this works best here or in the network forum but I'll try here first. My brother (75 miles away at college) just set up his computer for connect to the college network. ...

Glad to hear it! Just to be clear, all I did was go to Google and search for "xvid.dll" - third or fourth result was someone with the same exact problem you had. SOmetimes I love google ;)

Try uninstalling and reinstalling your XVid codecs. I saw a post on another forum where any folder with XVid files would crash Explorer - some problem with the default icon displayed for XVid file...

Yep, I had an old ATI card that I know works (lent it to my brother when his BFG card failed after 4 months), and it makes no difference. Fans spin up, power lights come on, but no post, no beeps,...