Recent content by AbominableJinx

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    spyware or virus in google

    Thankyou very much for the link, Mc8. I am sure at ease now. I was worried all morning that I got some virus or something :o Thanks again :)
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    spyware or virus in google

    I have a problem when I open google search. I type a letter in googles letterbox, and instead of saved previous searched things coming up, a list of diferent things pops up, and it lists all the search results. For instance, if I type the letter S, a whole series of names comes up that I have...
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    Will this psu work with this setup?

    Thankyou bigandslimey , ill go ahead and order then. :)
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    Will this psu work with this setup?

    Just a quick question, and I need to order in a hurry. Will this power supply work with this setup I have? I want to replace my Enermax Nosietaker 420 watt psu. Thermaltake Purepower W0100RU My computer: Asus k8v motherboard AMD 64 3400+ corsair value ram 1 gb nvidia 6800 gt...
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    pc crashed and wont reboot

    Sorry, I overlooked the part where you download, one download takes care of all those files. My friend was going to put it on a floppy for me and mail it, but the file was too big for a floppy. I am lost now, the via file that i had to use before was on a floppy and was the only way windows...
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    pc crashed and wont reboot

    Hmm only thing im confused of now is which one of the 6 files do I download VT8251 Integrated Serial ATA RAID controller ( VT8251 ) VT8237 Integrated Serial ATA RAID controller ( VT8237 VT8237 ) Discrete Serial ATA RAID controllers VT6420/1 ( VT6420 VT6421 ) VT6410 IDE RAID controller (...
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    pc crashed and wont reboot

    Thanks engraver, it comes to mind now, I am sure it was a raid controller. Only thing now, my floppy drive doesnt work on my old pc im on now so I have no way to save it unless i disconect my floppy drive from the gaming pc :( I will check the links out, thanks again. :)
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    pc crashed and wont reboot

    Yesterday, I put a game cd in my pc and before the game loaded it froze up. I hit cntr alt delete and couldnt exit out. So i rebooted my pc, and then it did a boot loop. After that, it went to a black screen that listed safe mode options and an option to go to the last best configuration or...
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    Hard drive problem

    Thanks for the links, I will check them out :)
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    Hard drive problem

    Sorry for the late replys. It is windows xp sp2 thats installed. The Hard drive I bought new from Comp USA, and a friend of mine installed it for me. Well at least it works, just wish i had at least 149gb like the old one had. I wont use that much space anyways, but kind of perplexed why this...
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    Hard drive problem

    I had a new hard drive installed in my system, and it isnt showing the full capacity. I bought a 160gb seagate barracuda SATA to replace my other seagate. My older drive which is almost identical only it is 3 years old detected 149 gb of 160, and this new one only show 127gb of 160. What is...
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    Lock ups

    Thanks for the info Mark. I shot some air into the card fan and a ton of dust came out. Hopefully that was creating the problem. It does run hotter than it used to though. If it locks up again, I will see about just upgrading the whole bloody thing, mobo and all to PCIe.
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    Anyone have fitment issues with 8800 boards?

    bumping an older post, im curious about this myself :)
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    Lock ups

    Hmm I am not sure. The brand name is Evga. I opened up Everest, and it says under GPU (Bus Type: AGP 8X @ 8x ) if that means anything? And the motherboard is an Asus K8V Deluxe, I dont think it is an nforce board.
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    Lock ups

    Thanks for the help people. Hmm so does that mean I have to get another graphics card, or could the fan be fixed in it? It also froze when I ran avg, and then a mp3 file on windows media at the same time.