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Amount of RAM for win XP home by nospam
Hi, Would I notice any difference in performance between 2 and 4 GB or DDR2-800 RAM in a system with an AMD 64 x2 3800 processor just use the PC for basic office type stuff word, powerpoint simple excel, surfing.
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October 10th 06 04:52 PM
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Do I have a damaged CPU? by baddley
I had been running a desktop with Asus A7M266, AMD Athlon 1.4GHz and 750 MB, 266Mhz DDR memory chips when I noticed the CPU fans intermittently malfunctioning. Then I started getting frequent shut downs of the desktop saying, " A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent...
October 10th 06 12:16 PM
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Asus to Intel Questions by Larry
I am planning to change an Asus MB to an Intel MB. Will be changing CPU also. Will I be able to use my copy of XP ? My HD is going to be used again so do I reformat it first or what to get rid of all the Asus drivers and install the Intel . Can I just power down and change out every thing an...
October 10th 06 12:16 PM
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AMD Dual Core question by GuessWho
I have a MSI K8N Neo4 mobo that I was planning on using to build a new machine to replace my wife's P3. This board is for Athlon64 cpus, which I was intending to use, but there is a BIOS upgrade for dual core support and since AMD dual core processors have dropped dramatically in price, I was...
October 10th 06 12:16 PM
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Suddenly reboots by Mitochondrion
Could be a problem with your IDE cable, try swapping it, also if you try to run HD in UDMA (80Wire) mode with a NON-UDMA cable (40Wire) then that might cause problems, also your power supply might be of insufficient wattage to supply your system when it is running at a high load; take note of what...
October 10th 06 12:16 PM
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blinking led at the back of the cpu by Mitochondrion
it would sound as if a part in your power supply might be failing, you said waiting time went from 5 mins to 12 hours so it would lead me to believe a capacitor is leaking or something and it actually takes 12 hours for the voltages to stabilize enough for the MB to send a PWR_GOOD (Purple Wire on...
October 10th 06 12:16 PM
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Computer locks up Installing WinXp by tiyogi
P4 1.7GHz Socket 423 Mb ECS p4vxms version 1.0 512 Mb ram This is a used computer and attempting to reload WinXp Pro. Prior to attempting WinXp the system was working however it had a lot of garbage from the previous owner so I thought I would wipe it and start fresh. However the computer locks up...
October 10th 06 12:16 PM
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My PC refuses to break down..and keeps working by bgd
I know this is a serious problem. I have never gone more than a couple of weeks without at least one chore to keep it going. there is definately something wrong . 7 months no maintenance. I think I recall a couple of defrags... To really add to my frustration.... I am only running three fans...
October 10th 06 12:16 PM
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Getting shocked by a laptop...is this normal? by spodosaurus
Hi all, I was using a laptop that has s-video out. The s-video cable was plugged into the TV. The laptop was plugged into mains power via its adapter. When I went to plug the s-video into the back of the laptop my hand (holding the s-video adapter end bit) brushed against a serial port on the...
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October 10th 06 11:20 AM
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PC all of a sudden won't POST - after 3 years by [email protected]
Hello all, Here is my problem - I built a PC over 3 years ago and for no obvious reason it has just stopped working. Here is the setup and my symptoms: Setup: ASUS P4P800 Deluxe Motherboard Pentium 4 2.8Ghz 800MHz FSB CPU 2x Seagate 120GB SATA Hard Drives (240GB Total) in RAID 0 Stripe...
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October 10th 06 04:08 AM
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system crash by Davy
For logs.... click Start/ Control Panel/ Perf. & Maintenance/ Admin Tools/ and you are almost there finally Event Viewer these are the logs that can be saved, printed or deleted. Open Event Viewer and look at Application and System by clicking, clicking on any errors in them will open a dialogue...
October 10th 06 03:12 AM
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Thumbs drives are very delicate per my IT person...What gives with that? by Brett Miller
I've seen a Thumb drives v/s the ultra small HD comparison in Maximum PC and the Thumb drives proved to be very durable. Now, our IT person has bought everyone in our "Company" whooping 128 meg ( yes, 128 meg not KB) thumb drives. He bought them in a large lot of a couple of thousand. Now people...
October 10th 06 03:08 AM
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how do you get into the bios of an old presario 5340? by `AMD tower
I've been unable to get into the bios of this computer. AMD k6-2, 400 mhz, 4 gig hard drive. A compaq splash screen comes on when it boots, and the best I can do is get it into safe mode with the F8 key. Hitting delete, or control, or alt, or tab during the boot doesn't do it, it just displays the...
October 10th 06 02:39 AM
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Delayed response to mouse double-clicks by Ray K
With a certain solitaire game (Diplomat, by GSP), I should be able to remove cards from their initial locations to final locations simply by double-clicking on them if it's an allowed move. On a friend's computer, but not mine, the problem is that after double-clicking, there is about a...
October 10th 06 01:30 AM
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mother board by Mitochondrion
an edit to my reply I said socket 472 when was supposed to type 462 for the Athlon procs...Didn't know you were running an intel (assumed AMD)
October 10th 06 01:28 AM
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strange startup problem by Matt
I built a new system about 6 months ago and everything has been working great ever since. But today when I booted up the computer the system started beeping like it had some sort of hardware failure. It would beep for a random amount of times then pause, then beep for another random amount of...
October 10th 06 01:28 AM
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mother board by Mitochondrion
Asus A7V-Deluxe Fits socket 472 Athlon/AthonXP/Sempron Procs
October 10th 06 01:28 AM
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What do you think? by RwG
It's a Dell, Inspiron 7000 laptop with broken hinges. In fact, the lid is just hanging on by the electrics. The owner doesn't even want to spring for new hinges under $50. so I figure the next best thing is to use the external monitor she has. -The existing video just gets in the way -her nephew...
October 10th 06 01:28 AM
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DDR400 mem in a DDR333 mobo by [email protected]
Hello, This is kind of a noobish question, but... I have an ASUS P4S533-X mother board, in the manual it says that the mobo suports up tp PC2700 (DDR333). My question is, can I install PC3200 (DDR400) memory cards, or the mobo/cards will burn? Thanks
October 10th 06 01:28 AM
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Flipped floppy cable on new Asus P5B.. Did I kill it? by Doug Warner
Built my first new system in 4 years with an Asus P5B Deluxe.. The only thing that didn't work out was that I had the diskette drive cable upside-down at the drive. The symptom was that the drive was not ready, and the activity LED was on all the time. No problem, in my support work and...
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October 10th 06 01:28 AM
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