Recent content by nanjil

I do not understand this buzz/hype that just because different machines have x86 the games are automatically easy to port between consoles/pc etc. If that was the cause it would have been no problem to have linux games in windows and vice versa. The GUI makes it even more complicated and as...

yes: I am beginning to hate microsoft. I spent so much time fixing those windows machines ( iam freahs from another fix last night). No matter what the hardware they always suffer from "windows fatigue". I do not know about game systems, but if the xbox has same windows stuff, i will...

if it posts, it is most likely a windows problem. There is an outside chance that some sectors in the hard drives are bad, but I think it is unlikely. windows does this periodically an dI am used to reinstalling windows.

guys I have dfi lanparty nf4 ut(amd). I knwo this heat sink requires you to instll its own bracket. do i have to remove teh board form teh case to to install teh bracket, or can i unscrew and instll the heat sink with the board in the computer case. thanx

hello I have built a system withdfi lanparty ultra-D. I can overclock the system no problem. but if i go to standby (with s3) and come back my overclock is gone. If I have used higher cpu voltage it magically sets it to 1.6V. my question is 1. is this a dfi-lanparty behavior (then I...

furhter update: I found out later that the battlefield problem is not a crash but a loooooong momentary freeze. actually now i am overclocking the board (200 to 240Mhz) and running prime95 for couple of hours. so far it hax been testing ok

hello: I built a system with gigabyte k8nsc939 mbd. My son plays battlefield and the game crashes randomly and brings dwon the whole system. The board is not overclocked,. it has 512 k kungston hyperx pc3200 memory. It has the same issue with PQI pc 4000 memory as well. The same played atleast...

hello: I have k8nsc939 mobd with dma enabled. however when I look at the ide primary channel properites under windows xp it always says that the current setting is PIO mode even though "DMA when avaialbale" is selected. my bios claimns dma is enabled. what is wrong with this picture...

hello: I have abit ic7 max3 system with 3Gha pentium and 2x512 kingston 4000 RAM. when the system boots up it gets stuck in post for a very loooong time. eventually it boots up. This problem happened also many months ago. At that time manually clkearing the cmos fixed the problem. This...

hello: I am trying to build a 754 2800 system with aopen n250a-fr4 board. when i put memore (ddr 400) in slot 1 (nearest to cpu) and power up the cpu comes on and then the whole system dies with a single long beep . when I move the memory to other slot the same thing happens but with no...

guys: I replaced the foxcnonn oem nforce2 mother board with msi nforce2 k7n2gm-v mb. everything installs except the audio multimedia cintroller according to winxp. it shows no audio device. reinstallation of nvidia unified drivers is of no avail any clues to how i can get the on board audio...

thanx guys. that au31 is oem only and i could not find it in any store.so I went ahead and ordered a chaintech matx wth a via chipset. now i do not knwo whehter the windows xp in the hard drive will boot up with this new mother board.

hello: my emachines t3085 wnet dead. It won't post. I changed the power supply but still won't post.\ I know it has nforce2 motherboard but I do no knwo what brand. does anybody know? thanx