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Hey everyone, so in the middle of what I thought was a routine bios update via a usb stick and ez flash 2, the update process hung on the erasing boot block step. Initially, I thought it was just taking extra long, so I left it there for about half an hour and came back to the exact same...

Before running bootvis and it's optimization function, it would take roughly around 3 cycles of the blue bar to get to the login screen, then from the login screen to desktop, it would lag a little. After running bootvis, the complete opposite occured, now it would take around 10 bars to get to...

I’m currently using a 74 raptor (8mb version) as the boot drive in my shuttle sn21g5 (nforce4 410). I noticed that the boot times in regarding to the windows logo with the blue bars was taking a surprisingly long time. On my old sn95g5 (nforce3 ultra) with the same HD setups, it’d take around 3...

I’ve been running a Shuttle SN95G5v1.2 (nForce3 ultra) for close to two years now with a winchester 3200 and 2x512 Kingmax PC3200 Rams at 2.5-3-3-6-1T, and it has been stable as a rock. About half a month ago though, I decided to finally ugprade and get an X2 4400+ and update the system to its...

Now I've been out of the whole video card loop for a couple of months now, but I was just browsing around the video cards section of newegg and found that the AIW version of the x800xt is $340 while the regular x800xts are still 400+. Now if I remembered correctly, shouldn't the aiw versions...

A comp that I recently built for my friend is having some problems. He's been getting bsods in games, and constant missing file errors. He just tried formatting it and got another bsod during the windows format using a windows cd with slipstreamed sp2. The hd is a seagate 120 SATA II w/ncq and...

I've got two sticks of 512 kingmax pc3200 (red pcb's) for sale. SPD for these rams at 3200 is 2.5-4-4-8, but I have mines stable at 2.5-3-3-6 with stock voltages, results may vary though. I'm look at around 110 + shipping to any continental us state for these. email: [email protected] heat...

Im building my friend a comp and he's kind of on a budget in the psu department. The rest of the parts that I got him were: MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum NF3 Ultra AMD64 3000+ Winchester NEC ND-3520A Seagate 120GB SATA II W/NCQ (I know ncq is useless now, but it was the only sata drive on mwave...

Just got my new raptor and things does appear to be faster, but boot times still seem kind of slow (5 bars for windows to load). I was just wondering if installing the nforce ide drivers will help with boot times and overall performance. Personally, I've stayed away from these drivers since the...

I just finished installing my raptor in my shuttle and forgot to copy down the serial number for the rebate. I was just wondering if the serial number is on the newegg receipt that came with the hard drive, or is there any other way to get it without taking it apart again. Thanks.

I just upgraded to a 6800GT from a 9800XT today, and started to do some benchmarking right away. Got a score of around 8500 in 3dmark03 with first run, so I started worrying. Uninstalled display and chipset drivers, removed them with drivers cleaner, and reinstalled them again. Ran 3dmark03...

My 9800XT have been running fine for almost a year now, but when I turned on my comp today, I realized that the sound it was making from then fan was unusually loud. Opened up the case and everything seemed fine, except that the fan do seem to be running kind of slow. The sound it's making...

I'm currently trying to decide over which of these parts I should upgrade next. I can go with either 2xRaptors or 2xOCZ Platinum Rev.2 512 PC3200 sticks of ram. With the rams, i'll be able to finally do some serious overclocking, but with the hd's, I'm know I'll get some serious increases in...

Just got my sn95g5 and 3200+ today and everything's working fine except for one slight problem. After I installed zonalarm 4.5.538.001 and tried to run it, the comp would just restart itself. Then after the comp restarts and after a couple of mins into windows, it'll restart again since...

Since my cheap aspire 500w just fried my old motherboard, i'm just looking to get a new psu for the spare parts that i have left over since i'll be doing some upgrading. The parts that'll I have in this rig are Amd Athlon XP 2800+ Thermaltake Volcano 11+ Seagate 120 IDE 8Mb 7200RPM LG...

So I left my comp on as usual when I left home the other night. Then when I got home, my dad tells me that the comp caught on fire somehow, and when I checked it, the firewire headers right under the agp slot were completely burnt and melted. Luckily, everything else seems functional including...

Hey I just got an audigy 2 zs plat a couple of days ago and everything's been working great. I only installed the necessary things off of the cd and stayed away from all the other creative crap and also made sure that it's on its own irq, but I've discovered a slight problem lately. Whenever I'm...

Just recently when I was watching a replay in wc3, about 40 minutes into it, the whole system locked up and the sound started to loop. This has happened before but I never really payed any attention to it because I thought it might've been just a one time thing. Another weird thing that happens...

ewiz has nf7-s's for 10 bucks, probably a typo but worth a try if it actually works out. The best they can do is cancel it because I don't think it's legal for them to change the price after you have already ordered it. http://www.ewiz.com/detail.php?name=MB-NF7-S

I've had this refurbed 9800xt for almost a week now. Just recently, I've been doing a lot of benchmarks, and it always crashed when it's around 30 mins or so into it. I've tried different drivers and used a clean install of winxp but still no luck. Then just a few hours ago, I decided to set the...

Just ordered one of these off of newegg for $345. What's surprising me is that the item is still in stock after almost a day already. Doesn't a deal like this usually go out in like less than 30 minutes? Is it because the 9800xt refurbs usually don't work out or is it just that newegg has a lot...

http://www.newegg.com/app/viewProductDesc.asp?description=14-102-317R&depa=99 This is kinda strange, because it's been going in and outta stock every 10 mins or so for the past hour. It's either something wrong with the system, or people have been buying nonstop and newegg's restocking along...

After owning the aspire x-superalien case for nearly a month, the knob that controls the rear/top/side fans apparently stopped working. The knob that controls the two front fans still works and so does the one on the psu. Now, I can always rma the case back to newegg, but this issue doesn't...

I currently have a Aspire 500w psu w/blue fans that came with my aspire x-superalien case. The readings that I'm getting for the 3.3v, +5v, and +12v are on average 3.23v, 4.95v, and 11.6v. The 3.3 and the +5 seems fine, but the 12v seems to be way off. I'm not getting any stability issues or...

I'm about to get one of these off of newegg for 340, http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=14-102-290&depa=1 , and basing on some of the customer reviews there, i was wondering if the stock cooler will be enough if I'm not planning on overclocking or anything. If not, will...