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It's been 10 years since I've built a PC from scratch, so I might be a bit out of the loop. I was surprised, for example, to find out that cases no longer have drive bays for DVD drives. Is anything terribly wrong here or incompatible? I'm going to keep my current R9 270 graphics card until...

I have a 10 year old Liam Li case. I'm planning on building a new pc with it. I don't need watercooling or anything like that, I won't be overclocking it. Is my old case likely still fine to use? My main concern is the front panel connectors. The last time I put a motherboard in, 3 years...

About half the time when I reboot my computer, or when the monitor has been off for a while, Windows 8.1 apparently loses the monitor, and sees it as a "generic non-pnp monitor". (It's a Vizio 42" hdtv which I'm using as a monitor) This means the display is set to 1024x768, and I can't set...

I have an old laptop with an old Matshita UJDA720 dvd/cdrw. It will read other dvds (at least a few that I tried), but it won't read the copy of Microsoft Streets and Trips 2013 that I'm trying to install. The laptop has Windows XP. I'm trying to update/reinstall the dvd driver, but I can't...

I just installed Windows 8.1, as I had Vista 32 bit and needed a 64 bit operating system. Holy fucking god damnit this thing is fucking horrible. Click on a picture file or sound file while on the desktop or in File explorer, and suddenly I'm in this horrible Metro crapfest where I can't...

Based on the conversation in the official forums and the Steam forums, the game is nearly unplayable. Well, the multiplayer, at least. If you disconnect from Steam and play offline, the single player works well enough, but since everyone buys COD games for the multiplayer, this is quite the...

I just installed a new Radeon 5770, with the latest Catalyst graphics drivers, and now all text looks somewhat like it's being antialiased, it's all slightly blurry. Is there some reason why my desktop would be being antialiased? It's doing this with IE, firefox, and anything else. There...

I have the 32 bit version of windows vista, and 2 gigs of RAM. I'm in the process of buying a graphics card with 1 gig of RAM. I know that the most RAM 32 bit windows would possibly use is 3.12 gigabytes, but with a 1 gig graphics card, it's going to be even less than that. Any idea just...

After putting in a new CPU, windows will now only boot in safe mode. So I'm stuck with Safe mode until I figure out how to fix this, or possibly until I get a new motherboard if this is not fixable. (I've made another thread about that in the AMD section, so don't need advice on that here)...

My motherboard is a GA-MA69VM-S2, I put in a Phenom II X4 945 CPU and now windows will only boot in safe mode. When trying to boot normally, I get an error message and windows reboots. Gigabyte's website claims the CPU works with the motherboard, with the latest version of the BIOS, which I...

Any advice on video capture software to record game footage? Fraps only records 30 seconds of video, unless you buy the full version. I tried some other software called Xfire which supposedly lets you record video, but it didn't work. I'm looking for something free :)

I've been playing single player 1st person shooters since they first came out, since the original wolfenstein 3d and doom and duke nukem 3d and so on. I decided to try multiplayer finally, and I picked Bioshock 2's multiplayer game because I already owned the thing. And, I totally got my ass...

I've always only played single player games, but I decided to try an actual multiplayer 1st person shooter. Since I already had Bioshock 2, I decided to try it, even though its multiplayer portion apparently isn't well though of. I loaded up the game, and discovered that the FOV is locked at...

I've played a number of the RPG's of the past several years: Bioshock, Oblivion, The Witcher, Mass Effect, Knights of the Old Republic I and II, Jade Empire, NWN 2, Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines, Deus Ex 2, etc. I find that some games after I'm done I immediately want to replay, and...

I've been playing Mass Effect for what feels like a long time, and there appears to be nothing of interest whatsoever going on. I'm not sure if there's any overall plot, and there aren't any interesting characters. I've gathered up a bunch of followers and left whatever place you start in, and...

In Internet Explorer, clicking on most sorts of video/audio files used to cause them to beging loading, and begin playing at the same time. So as long as the file was sending fast enough, I could click on an mpeg or whatever and begin watching it almost instantly. For some reason, this no...

I (probably mistakenly) installed the new 169.21 beta drivers, and now I can't get a 1280x960 resolution anymore. Any way to get it to work? Any way to create a custom resolution? Don't bother mentioning Powerstrip, powerstrip doesn't support the 8800 graphics cards, at least, not if you...

I have an 8800GTS, and Vista, and I am trying to figure out how to change the gamma settings while within games. Nvidia's Nview software doesn't work with Vista. Powerstrip, which would have been a nice way to do all sorts of things, doesn't support the 8800's (and their forums say they...

I'm trying to figure out where the high pitched whining sound is coming from in my new system. Unplugged all the case fans, that wasn't the problem. I want to unplug the cpu fan/cooler to make sure that's not the source of the sound before I assume it is coming from the power supply. Is it...

I have a ultra x-finity 600w power supply, an 8800 gts graphics card. There are two pci-e connectors, one labelled 12v1 and the other 12v2. I'm trying to figure out which of them to connect the graphics card to. My system has only 1 hd, one dvd drive, a floppy drive, an amd x2 5600, the...