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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Pretty new to overclocking, only previous experience was bumping the multiplier on my xp 2500+ to get 3200+ speed which was pretty autopilot for me. Anyhow, I have an Athlon64 3700+ BN chip with an Asus A8N-E and 2x1gb Corsair XMS pc3200 cas 2 ram. Fiddling with the bios, I bumped the FSB freq...

My radeon x800xl just started getting major artifacting when running graphic intensive programs and I'm not sure what the problem could be. Everything was running just fine until yesterday when during a game my graphics started freaking out. Crazy artifacts started dancing all over the screen...

Price difference aside, which processor is "better"? An Athlon64 3700+ San Diego with it's 1mb of L2 or a 3800+ Venice with only half the L2 but 0.2 more ghz (2.2 vs 2.4ghz)? The system it would be going into would be a gaming rig with a 7900gt vidcard and 2x1gb of Corsair XMS pc3200...

About to upgrade my system and I need to get a new PSU. I'm down to one of these 2 PSUs, not sure what the difference between the two is, other than one has 1fan and the other has 2. Is there any other significant difference between the two? and which one is better, or is it a wash? The 2...

About to pull the trigger on an mobo upgrade and just trying to decide between an Asus A8N-E mobo and an Epox 9NPA+. I'm not looking for sli and dont plan on overclocking much, if at all. I mainly want stable performance and good speed. Any compelling reason to go one or the other? I've...

I have a Radeon 9800xt that has been running solid for probably a good 2 years now, and suddenly the other day it seems to have crapped out. I had been writing some emails and left my desk to go run some errands, and when I came back the computer was still running but when I turned on the...

I'm upgrading my system and am in the process of selecting a new PSU that will adequately take care of my current needs while leaving me some headroom for future upgrades, all at a reasonable price. One thing that has been confusing me as I look at the available units is how there are now...

I'm about to upgrade my system and was hoping to get some info/advice on the some of the components I was planning on combining to see if there are any red flags I should be cautious of before I start buying. I plan on getting: Athlon64 3000+ Venice (is there a significant difference...

Giving my girlfriend my radeon x800xl and looking to upgrade to a new card. I'm not looking for bleeding edge, but do want the best bang for my buck and performance/longevity possible. I'm looking at the $300-320 area and have been looking between a geforce 7900gt or a radeon x1800xt and not...

I have a system I built myself based on a Chaintech VNF4/Ultra motherboard. It has been running solidly for over 4 months now with no problems at all, but when I started it up today, the computer started to make a rapidly repeating beaping noise after it made it's normal single beap while...

I have a PC Chips M811LU motherboard running with a duron 950. I just flashed it to the latest bios and now it won't read from the CDRom of hard drive after successfully posting. The flash went fine and I can still go into the bios and change settings but every time it starts up, it posts...

Just upgraded my system to this: Athlon64 3000+ Chaintech vnf4 ultra 512x2 Geil PC3200 Seagate 120gb SATA Radeon x800XL and I'm wondering if it's worth it to drop another $70 on an Audigy 2 ZS or if I'm better off just going with the onboard sound? Here's the info from the...

Just upgraded to an athlon64 3000+ on a Chaintech vf4 ultra mobo. I migrated my 2 sticks of 512mb Geil PC3200 RAM over and everything is working well. My question is, I'm thinking of getting an additional 2 sticks of the Geil 512mb RAM to fill out my 4 RAM slots and upgrade the total ram to...

I just finished upgrading my system and reinstalling the XP Pro and have started to get the dreaded BSOD at random times. Doesn't happen too frequently, maybe once every 2 hours at completely random times (no similar actions or programs running). Here's the error message I caught: STOP...