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it still happens. I typed about the media keys just for people to get the idea of I can do anything and it will freeze. The problem is I have the sli she doesn't it happens to her more than me. >< we read somewhere that asus motherboards don't get a long with physx but meh. I don't know. It...

There are a lot of people with this problem but no solid fix. I have SLI 285 and my fiancee has a 460 and both of our screens always goes black sometimes it comes back up with an error saying the device drivers have failed but restarted again but a lot of the times it just goes black and you...

No clue where to post this so I will do it here. I have windows 7 and when I alt tab out of games I sometimes get a black screen. Sometimes I don't get the black screen but it happens more than I would like. I even got a black screen tonight while in WoW changing my songs with the media buttons...

I got the Corsair Cooling Hydro Series H50 to overclock my CPU. The guide I went to got me up to 4ghz (EVGA X58 Overclocking Guide). I start the computer and the idle temp is 60. Everything shows that it is 4gz. I run prime 95 and once it goes to 100% load the temp flies to 90-100 then back down...

I want a program that can scan my computer and tell me every driver that needs to be updated and installed. I don't want to pay for it so is there a free version of something like this?

Tried all of that. Nothing. I just went and got a new motherboard. Works fine now. It was the same model bios that I downloaded. I tried the cmos and the recovery bios but the problem was that i was getting no signal at all to the monitor.

Please help me. I went to intel.com and decided to update some drivers and such for my desktop. one of them was to flash my bios. I pressed on the program and it restarted my computer updating stuff in bios. after it was done it restarted my computer again but now nothing happens. I turn on my...

I have windows xp and 4 gigs of memory. It only shows it having 2 gigs. It shows the 4 gigs in the task manager but when I look at properties of the computer *and other programs* it shows 2. I know that it is a windows xp thing but my question is, Is it using my 4 gigs and windows xp just...

I set my bridge up for I can use my laptop to go online with my 360. It can be going strong and keeping me online for hours but all of the sudden I will be knocked off xbox live. I will check the laptop and my wireless connection is not working for the 360 or the internet. I have to wait about 5...

ok cool. ty for all the info everyone! i'll be back later to let everyone know how it went lol

haha I wont. I just called him and it is a different model number. Their computer is an AMD 64 and mine is a Intel P4. that wont make it impossible or mess anything up will it? sorry for all the questions. i r nub at computerz. I just never knew that the recovery partition was actually...

ahh i already did the live chat 3 times.. all pointing me to a 28$ disc. will that work? using my friends cd then going to compaq.com and downloading the drivers for my model number? it wont mess anything up and make anything not run will it?

jeez. im ready to just go buy it hah. don't want to risk having conflicting drivers... *sigh*

so.. say a dell oem home basic wont work with my cd key? I have a friend with a dell oem home basic and another friend who has a compaq recovery disc partition. So if he burns the backup cd from his partition that wont count as an oem home basic?

thats cool.. ill try that if what i typed above doesn't work. when you make a recovery disc or whatever from the partition, that is an oem home basic disc right? any oem will work with any oem disc of the same product right? if so i will call up my friend now and have him burn from the...

oh so it is an OEM cd key? Didn't think it was since the letters OEM wasn't in the cd key lol. hmm a friend of mine has a compaq presario as well. different model number but it is a compaq home basic. will it work if we make a recovery disc from their recovery partition and install it on mine...

ok. one more question. will the cd key work if I borrow someone's windows vista home basic cd or do I need the actual cd from compaq?

onlything i see is they will send you the disc if they have the option available, which they don't. is there anyway to show a legit cd key to microsoft and be able to download it off of them?

Hah, I think I was mis-understood hugely. This computer, the compaq, originally came with windows vista home basic. I gave it to a friend to put XP on it. While he put XP on it he deleted my partition with the compaq recovery. I have been living with windows XP pro on this computer. I don't game...

it lets me change it but when i try to activate it it says i need to upgrade to premium. As I stated above. "This isn't actually a cd of windows. It is a disc that came with the gateway laptop (it's all cow printed as well-hah)." It says windows home premium on the cover of it. anything i can...