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Forum: General Troubleshooting Topic: Installed Hd4850 - Causing Problems. |
| French_Toast |
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Posted: Mon Aug 02, 2010 6:53 pm
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| Hi guys, first off here are my PC specs. Windows XP PRO SP3 Intel Core 2 Duo e8400 ASUS P5NT-Deluxe Motherboard Vantec ION2 460w powersupply 2 gigs generic DDR2 250GB Seagate SATA HDD The problem that i am having is, after i installed the HIS IceQ4 Turbo HD4850, the SATA Hard drive will not show up ... |
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Forum: General Hardware Discussion Topic: Looking to upgrade. |
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Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2008 5:25 pm
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Replies: 23
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| Got a 3dmark06 score of 6100, if i had a better video card im sure it would increase big time. |
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Forum: General Hardware Discussion Topic: Looking to upgrade. |
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Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2008 3:10 pm
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| Allright, after I got back from the valley, I reset the bios and so far so good. Stupid me not thinking about the settings being changed beforehand, anyways all is well now, off to some testing! |
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Forum: General Hardware Discussion Topic: Looking to upgrade. |
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Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2008 1:51 am
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| Well the only thing I can try is to re seat the CPU and heatsink, anyone got some spare thermal paste kicking around? ill be gone tomorrow morning, but should be back mid afternoon. |
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Forum: General Hardware Discussion Topic: Looking to upgrade. |
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Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2008 12:16 am
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| Aight guys Im having a problem. Ive installed everything and the pc keeps crashing during installation of windows, usally only a few mins in. I decided to check the bios and the temps are wayyyyyyyy up there, like around 90-100 and climbs a degree every few seconds kinda thing. Ive double checked an... |
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Forum: General Hardware Discussion Topic: Looking to upgrade. |
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Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2008 10:14 pm
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Replies: 23
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Denty wrote: lol i sold you that 8500 today. it was the only one left in stock
Glad I got the last one.  |
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Forum: General Hardware Discussion Topic: Looking to upgrade. |
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Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2008 9:23 pm
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| Aight, took everyones advice, went and bought an e8500 at MB today, then Bought a P5N-T Deluxe, and Some Ram from members on here. Thanks guys, cant wait to get my new system up and running. |
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Forum: General Hardware Discussion Topic: Looking to upgrade. |
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Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2008 3:19 pm
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| Thanks for the info. Instead of wasting my money on a half a$$ed upgrade, ill just wait and get the parts one at a time. |
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Forum: General Hardware Discussion Topic: Looking to upgrade. |
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Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 11:14 pm
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| Well I can get an ASUS M3A78 board for cheap from a friend of mine, so I was going to try and stay with an AMD processor simply because I can get a good deal on the board. If i was going to build the best PC for the money, I'd definitly go the e8400 route... as it seems to be one of the better going... |
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Forum: General Hardware Discussion Topic: Looking to upgrade. |
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Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 12:28 am
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| All right, heres my current PC Specs. Amd Athlon 64x2 4200(939) Asus A8R-MVP32 deluxe 2 Gb OCZ DDR400 dual channel Ati Radeon X1950xtx 512mb Its been a pretty good system, but its starting to show its age pretty badly. I'm guessing that the CPU and RAM are the biggest downfalls. So what I'm wonderin... |
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Forum: Software and Networking Topic: XP Issues on Laptop. |
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Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2008 9:16 pm
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Replies: 8
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Well, I messed with it for a bit more, did the fxmbr and chkdsk suggestions, still no dice. Finially I borrowed another XP disc from a buddy, and that disc worked fine... so looks like my disc is bad.  Oh well, laptop is working better then ever now, thanks for the help guys  |
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Forum: Software and Networking Topic: XP Issues on Laptop. |
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Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 8:49 pm
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| So dads laptop had windows Vista installed on it. He Didn't like it, felt it ran much to slow, which I can agree with, the laptop only has 512mbs of RAM. So he asked me to install windows XP on it. So I Got the WIndows XP disc, and went about the reqular, wipe the drive, format as NTFS, and then ins... |
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Forum: PC Gaming Topic: Anybody else get Sins Of A Solar Empire? |
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Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 9:09 pm
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| Went to the wal-mart in sackville and dartmouth crossing, both had none. EB games in Sackville Bedford and Mic mac mall had none. Best buy in dartmouth crossing didnt even have it in system and told me no such game existed, and futureshop at mic mac mall hadnt recieved any yet. never had this happen... |
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Forum: Software and Networking Topic: Internet "Dropping" |
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Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 9:22 pm
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| Alright the problem im having is this. At completly random intervals my internet just cuts out, and i have to go into my network connections, disable and re-enable the connection in order for it to work. It happens when im downloading.. and when im not, but moreso when downloading.. downloading anyt... |
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Forum: Benchmarks Topic: The Official 3DMark 06 Thread |
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Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2007 2:24 pm
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Replies: 276
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| 5753 on a Dual core 4200+ and X1950XTX, both at stock speeds. |
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