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I'm sorry if this is the wrong place to post this, but there didn't seem to be a more appropriate forum. ~_~ Anyway, I'm heading off to college in California in less than two weeks. I live in New Hampshire, so I'm taking much more than my clothes and a few things I want in my dorm room with...

I got a MacBook Pro as a graduation present (which I absolutely love), but its only shortcoming is a rather small harddrive, for my tastes anyway. It's got a 120gb harddrive, and having ~45-50gb of music or more seriously decreases the limited amount of free space I already have (the OS already...

My friend recently got a new stick of RAM to complement Battlefield 2 and STALKER, but is running into some issues. He's got a Chaintech VNF4-Ultra motherboard, and had two 512 sticks of Crucial DDR400 PC3200, and just got a new stick of Corsair ValueSelect DDR400 PC3200. The problem is when...

I posted this over on the official Stalker forums at GSC Game World, but have yet to receive a response since new topics are created like wildfire there, so I'll give it a shot here. I've managed to avoid the crashing when saving/loading bug when running Stalker on Vista. In fact, except for...

I wanted to do a basic OC on my X2 3800+ from 2.0ghz to 2.4ghz tonight to prep my rig for STALKER (can't get enough of just the thought of that game). So I went into the BIOS on my ASUS A8N-SLI Premium, upped the CPU Frequency to 240 x 10, lowered the HTT multiplier to x4, and upped the vcore to...

I went and reserved a copy at my local GameStop yesterday. The guy at the counter told my friend to come back Wednesday because Tuesday is the shipping date, but we're checking Tuesday anyway...when is it supposed to actually be in stores? Regardless, who else is looking forward to the game?

Today I ordered 2gb of Corsair Valueselect RAM (affordable, and I have a gig of Valueselect RAM that I've had and am going to use until the new RAM gets here). Although it's a little late to ask, just for the sake of asking, what kind of performance increase can I expect? My system specs are in...

I'm not certain if these kinds of threads are allowed here, but I thought I'd see who out there is playing GH I/II and how they're fairing. Mods, please delete this and/or notify me if this is in the wrong section or not allowed. I myself have only played GH II. My brother got it for...

Well, one day over this thus-far fairly boring school vacation, I decided I wanted a little more room on my desk, and my dad being a carpenter, further figured that now was the time to build a wall mount for my 19" widescreen Samsung Syncmaster 940BW. It's not the prettiest thing by far, or for...

I recently upgraded to Vista, and with my current rig on XP, all of my games were quite playable (perhaps not at maximum settings, but close). Now, I've been having troubles with Battlefield 2 and F.E.A.R. In BF2 I lowered my video settings down to medium, but it's still rather choppy when I...

Sorry if this isn't the right place to put this, it was a choice between displays, operating systems and general software, so I chose this. I'd like to get more use out of Media Center, but in lieu of having $50 to spend on a cheap TV tuner card, I've opted to go with the inputs on my GeForce...

In a burst of spontaneity, I've decided that I might like to try to wall mount my Syncmaster 940BW, which is a 19" widescreen. My stipulations are as such: I would like it to be removable and replaceable back on the base for when I decide to go to LAN parties, and would preferably like to use...

My friend gave me her camera to take a look at, since she was having a problem with it. It's a (fairly new-looking) Kodak EasyShare v550. The problem is, and it's difficult to explain, but when I both review and preview pictures using the display on the camera (not the viewfinder), the image...

So I bought Vista Home Premium today with hopes of getting it up and running...well, today. That isn't going to happen, apparently. I formatted my drive and installed Vista, only to find out that in order for my key to work I would have to upgrade to it from XP, which sounded like more than a...

I'm interested in buying the Home Premium version of Vista. However, I've got a couple years' worth of files on a 250gb main drive and 200gb backup drive. Although a reformat would not be the end of the world, I'd prefer to keep whatever I can intact and get through the upgrade with as few...

Forgive me if this is the wrong place to put this, but it seems to be a form of webmastering, so to speak, so I'll try here. Basically, the husband of my mother's co-worker wants me to design for him a website for his construction business. He's an all-purpose construction worker, doing...

[Edit] Nevermind, just wiped the whole drive using diskmgmt.msc and formatted the drive as a primary partition using Partition Magic - everything's good now.

Well, I stripped a screw on my P180. Luckily, it's a screw holding the top fan in. Unluckily, this thing has zero grip left in it. I've tried everything. I've used misshapen drill bits (well, one, but I don't think it'll do any good at any other size), a square bit, two bits shaped like odd...

I did a google search and a hardforum search and could find nothing that pertained specifically to what's going on. :E Lately (the past couple of days or so), I've been noticing a tiny little popping coming from my power supply. I suppose it's more noticable in games, but it could be my...

I currently have my computer hooked up to my TV (for watching movies, and so forth). My eVGA 7800GT came with an S-Video connector that splits into a whole bunch of different things. The one I've figured out is "S-Video Out". :) The other connectors are as follows: S-Video In Comp. In...

Hi there. I'm looking to make a custom P180 door out of lexan. My dad's a carpenter, so I have a lot of tools at my disposal, and he has a lot of lexan that he can cut to whatever size I need. The problem is, without going into a lot of fusing and so forth, I can't find a way to fit a custom-cut...

I randomly got this error after opening SpeedFan; the program hung when checking my system bus, then gave me a blue screen with the following message and error codes: MACHINE_CHECK_EXCEPTION 0x0000009C ( 0x00000004 0x8054D5F0 0xB2000000 0x00070F0F ) I did a google search, and many...

I have my own personal little website, which I won't bother linking to unless someone cares to see it. It's written purely in HTML (with a couple CSS tags in there), has a very simple layout with tables and an image map for a nav bar, and so forth. My host (afmu.com) provides me with a great...

My 4G iPod's battery has officially kicked the bucket (will not hold a charge while off; I fully charge it, it DOES turn on and works, but if I turn it off and leave it off for a day the battery will completely drain and I get a battery warning icon). Since it's given me a good excuse to get a...

Ok, well, after reading around, I'm thoroughly stumped. Well, not entirely, but I haven't come to a clean conclusion yet. I own an ASUS A8N-SLI Premium motherboard, as you'll see in my sig. I'm in the market for a new case, and I really want to go with a Lian-Li V-series case. Problem is...

[Edit] Nevermind, an uninstall of Motherboard Monitor and then a reboot seems to have fixed the problem. Please delete.

My friend got a Thermaltake Armor as a replacement case for his HP computer. He asked me to come over and transfer everything from one case to the other for him, so I did. Unfortunately, in the process, instead of taking out the front 5.25" bay with the power switch and so forth through the...

I was on Overclocking.net, I think, reading a guide to AMD overclocking, as I've been stuck at 225HTT*10 on my X2 3800+ and A8N-SLI Premium for a week or so. It's alright, a 10% overclock is nice, but I'm wondering if it's just my luck of the draw or if I can go further. In the Memory section...

Well, after doing some extensive reading after screwing up my ABIT AS-8 (long story, but the short of it is, I didn't ground myself properly and shorted out the mobo...wasn't really a mobo problem), I decided to up my X2 3800+ just a tiny bit, to keep up on a single-core basis with my friend's...

First and foremost, I apologize if there's some sort of definitive topic about this floating around here somewhere; I looked, and I couldn't find one. :E My question is (hopefully) simple: I own an eVGA GeForce 7800GT (N517), which has stock speeds of (I think) 470/1100. Using the coolbits...

Well, my friend was having some strange issues with his computer, revolving around severely-reduced clockspeeds. Turned out the culprit was the ASUS AI Booster, which I had him disable. His AMD Athlon XP 3000+ (2.1ghz, 10.5x200) was severely underclocked (to roughly 1ghz). However, upon...

I'm in the market for a new case (alas, my Chieftec Dragon Series case is falling apart :\). I like full-tower cases - lots of room, plenty of space for air flow, etc. However, with Christmas coming up, I'm looking at other cases, specifically the Lian-Li cases. I've seen pictures, and they...

Well, to put a long story short, in the process of pulling my Zalman 7700Cu off my 3800+X2, I yanked the processor up with it. I bent a few pins near one of the corners (there are two corners lacking a few pins, as I recall, and it was the corner without the arrow). By sheer luck there were only...

I just got my new computer parts the other day, and I put everything in (this includes an Athlon 64 X2 3800+ cooled by a Zalman 7700Cu). When I booted up, I checked the BIOS for temps, and the CPU was at 22ºC. When windows loaded, it was a predictable 27-30ºC. However, since then (this was...

Well, I've been reading a heck of a lot about each part I want to order to, and here's what I've come up with: * ASUS A8N-SLI Premium (Yeah, I've read about a LOT of problems with it, mostly central to the nvidia firewall, IDE drivers and most importantly, RAM, but unless there's an...

Ok, perhaps a stupid question, but I'd like to be sure: I'm fairly certain my motherboard is fried. Whenever I turned my computer on yesterday evening, nothing would start up (no splash screen or anything, nothing would even begin to POST), but the fans would spin and the lights on the...

[Edit] Nevermind, my motherboard seems to have fried; won't do anything except start the fans, much less even begin to post. Anyway, gives me an excuse to upgrade to an ASUS A8N-SLI (Premium, maybe :)). So this isn't a waste of a post, though, does anyone have any suggestions as far as...

Well, so far all of my attempts to overclock have been unsuccessful. I have an ABIT AS8 with an Intel Pentium 4 "Prescott" 3.2ghz (LGA775), and I've attempted to overclock it, to no avail. I was able to actually boot up and run games and such and have it remain somewhat stable at 3.6ghz...

I did some random cable management today (which I finally figured out how to do...and now my case looks a great deal cleaner). In the process, however, I must have cut the power, somehow, to the front-mounted USB and Firewire ports that are on my case. They give off very little power: the...

Well, everything is now working properly with my new Zalman 7700Cu heatsink. Given that the fan uses a 3-pronged connector (which, as expected, doesn't fit into the 4-pronged heatsink 'outlet' on my Abit AS8), I've taken to plugging it in using an "extension" cable of sorts (one that I used for...