Recent content by vietpho

update: It was the EVGA GTS 8800 640mb graphics card that was faulty. I threw it in the oven for about 315 degrees for 10 minutes and left it in there for cool down for about 30 minutes. I then reseated the heatsink and everything works now.

I've just followed the test guide and have done everything except the remove cpu part and psu swap. so far no error beeps. I have an AC/DC clamp meter. is there a way to just clamp my psu to see if it's good? I"m starting to wonder if it's the Mobo or CPU because I did overclock (stable with...

Hmm. I did everything with the mobo still in the case. Was I suppose to take the mobo out of the case put the jumper wire on the CMOS reset and hit the power button to reset it? brb. I'm going to try and reset it again. Let's say a transistor or capacitor or something fried on the mobo, would...

My computer shows a black screen and no beeps when I boot it up. See my signature for the specs. I've tried to reset the cmos and took out the little battery. I took out the 640mb GTS 8800 video card and boot up with no beep. I took out the OCZ Reaper 4096MB PC6400 DDR2 800MHz ram sticks and...

Happy Black Friday. FYI: The XFX 7970 is on sale for $200 after coupon code + v.me (30$ off $150) + $30.00 rebate. More datails on this thread...

I bought the 250GB one earlier. Great deal for my new computer build!

So I've reformatted it and installed windows 7 back on it but it's very slow and noisy lol. The health went from 5% to 10% after all of my work but I've decided to trash this HDD and not to use it anymore. I am reformatting this hdd...

Would a full reformat bring that "health" from 5% up?

I've been having issues on a few hdd's lately and decided to see if I can repair some more older hdd's I had laying around. This one is a Western Digital Raptor X WD1500AHFD that died on me 2-3 years ago and I've recently ran a scan on it. I am thinking about wiping it clean and installing an...

I've just reassmebled it and tried pluging in an external monitor and nothing. Still a black screen :(

So you are saying if I had overheard the gpu, then the board would have fried also?

I have a Inspiron 1420 with a dedicated 8400M GS graphics option. A few days ago my screen was getting a green screen with lines across. After I rebooted and tried to start back up, my screen is just black but I can hear the volume of the Windows 7 screen (so we know the computer is...

^ x2 I got mine a few days ago. They did a nice job shipping this OEM hdd.

omg. My WD Raptor X 150GB is recently giving me problems too! I bought it in 2007 when I built my computer. I was trying to load my Starcraft II earlier and it wouldn't start a game and it would crash my sc2. I then later received a message from windows 7 saying how the harddrive is corrupted...

oops. I hit the back button and replied in the wrong thread :(