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    System powers up then quickly dies!

    Here's some new info I just got from testing: I removed the 550w antec PSU and put in a generic 330w I had around, and the system seems to power up just fine, though I did leave one dvddrive and harddrive unplugged just to be safe since it's only 330w. I also put the 550w psu into an old...
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    System powers up then quickly dies!

    I just upgraded my 3700+ and zalman 7000 hsf to a 3800+ x2 and a zalman 9500 hsf and decided to power up the system to test it out but it is behaving oddly. I am still waiting on a new videocard to arrive so the system currently has no card installed. When I hit the power button, the system...
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    Laptop suddenly won't boot up properly

    Ok, I've gotten it to boot up completely and seemingly work normally, with a few issues still. Basically, I took out the 512mb ram stick from the laptop leaving just the 512mb onboard. The system will now boot up normally and operate normally. If I put the stick back in, the earlier problems...
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    Any way to recover deleted partitions?

    yes, i do live in the states
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    Any way to recover deleted partitions?

    Well, what happend was, what was normally 3 distinct partitions, appeared in the windows installer to be only one large partition. I am guessing that perhaps that virus screwed with the partition information or something and the windows installer just ended up treating the 3 partitions as one...
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    Laptop suddenly won't boot up properly

    Thanks for the pointers, I tried everything you suggested and it didn't help unfortunately. Same thing keeps happening. Power light comes on, main cooling fan spings up for a second before stopping, dvddrive will click endlessly, and the screen pretty much stays dark. Just no idea what the...
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    Any way to recover deleted partitions?

    My computer became infected with a virus, infostealer.banpaes that norton 2006 seemed unable to get rid of. I decided to simply reinstall XP pro, onto my 10gb C partition, while maintaining my files on the other two 50gb partitions (drive is 120gb sata). I'd done this countless times before...
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    Laptop suddenly won't boot up properly

    Just got back from a trip and despite working perfectly right up until last night, my laptop will no longer boot up properly. Its an HP nx7000 and was working great all weekend right up until I shut it down last night. Got up this morning and put it into its bag and went to the airport, took it...
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    XP randomly freezes up

    Thanks for all the help guys, as always, I'm grateful. I'll try it all out and let you know how it progresses. I don't think it's ram, heat, or PSU issues cause my voltages seem pretty solidly in line from what I'm reading with the monitoring software, system temp is always in the upper 30s...
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    XP randomly freezes up

    I upgraded my system a few months ago and it's been running rock solid right up until a few days ago. Now my computer will randomly freeze and the only thing I can do is hit the reset button to clear it all up. When the system freezes, the mouse and keyboard won't work and when I have the task...
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    ATI Questions

    x1800xt will give you very strong performance at an affordable price (for performance cards anyways). Not too familiar with crossfire setups though I think the DFI crossfire mobo is pretty popular, and you have to buy a crossfire card to go along with your main vid card to enable crossfire...
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    Bad 7900gt?

    Yea, I am RMA'ing the evga. Whenever I tried to lower the frequencies in the nvidia control panel (with coolbits changes) the card would freak out and start artifacting and stop sending a signal to the display. So I couldn't even really try to clock the thing down. Also, I tried a fresh...
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    Bad 7900gt?

    Just an update, I got the xfx card returned, received my evga card, and much like the xfx, after a few days of flawless operation where it would sale through 3dmark06 and atitool demos without a hitch, it began doing the same thing. Artifacting and tearing during those two tests, while...
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    Bad 7900gt?

    Yea, that's what I'm thinking too. I am RMA'ing the card and going with an evga version instead (that warranty is amazingly good) so we'll see if that changes anything. Thanks for all the input. Oh, and hope your Habs win, but the Sens will run through everyone anyways :-P
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    Bad 7900gt?

    I've been trying to hunt around the various forums on the net for info on this and I can't seem to find a clear answer to the issue. The theory put forth most often is that the PSU is the offender, assuming the card itself isn't just a lemon. Another guy in a different forum told me I...
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    Bad 7900gt?

    I just did a fresh reinstall of XP and installed my nf4 driveres 6.7 and vidcard driver 84.21 and then ran 3dmark 06. It got to the polar graphic test but towards the end crazy black objects started appearing all over the screen and then it froze. After a short bit it "finished" the test and...
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    Bad 7900gt?

    Got a new xfx 7900gt for my system and wondering if it's a bum card that needs to get RMA'd. It can't seem to make it through 3dmark06 without screwing up the system. Usually around CPU test 1, either the screen will just freeze on an image and hang there waiting for me to hit reset, or more...
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    Error during 3dmark06 test

    Trying to test out my new xfx 7900gt (factory oc'd 550/1630) using 3dmark06 and can't seem to make it through the test. Using the free download version, I make it to the snowbound test (or whatever it's called) but at some point during that test I always get an error that ends up...
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    Doing the right thing for lite OC?

    Sorry for the lack of info. Yea, I have the memory in dual channel, 1gb per channel. I adjusted the location of my case a bit to improve airflow and the idle temp is about 38C now, still higher than I prefer, I'm thinking I might have put a bit too much AS5 on and plan on cleaning and...
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    Doing the right thing for lite OC?

    CPU-z says my ram is CMX1024-c3200c2. With my multiplier currently set to 11 with HTT at 218.2mhz my auto cpu voltage seems to be around 1.5v, should I manually bring it down, and if so to what level? I'm not planning on going over 2.4ghz anytime soon. My cpu temp also seems to be about...
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