Recent content by antsct

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    Looking for Radeon 9800 PRO upgrade

    Agreed 100%. I put a AGP 3850 into an Athlon XP 3200+ (slightly faster than the 2.8GHz) and my CPU was a massive bottleneck. Big waste of money. Thankfully I sold it for a decent price a week later.
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    How to troubleshoot random crashes?

    Thanks again everyone! I think i've made a new discovery... When I was originally given the Mobile Athlon CPU and custom heatsink/fan, i was told it could easily manage (200 x 11) 2.2 - 2.4GHz (2.7GHz on watercooling). However, whenever I pushed it above 1.9GHz, the system would boot up...
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    How to troubleshoot random crashes?

    Thanks for the help so far! I run memtest86 and there were no errors. I also ran Prime95 using the 'Small FFTs' test for 3 hours and had no errors. HOWEVER, when using the 'In place large FFTs' test, after around 14 minutes i received the following error: FATAL ERROR: Rounding was...
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    How to troubleshoot random crashes?

    I have tried to provide as much info as possible, sorry for the long post. I have an old Socket A system that I use as my spare PC. Specs are: AMD OEM Sempron (Barton 400MHz fsb) 3300+ - 2.2GHz (Exactly the same chip as the XP 3200+) Custom Heatsink / Fan combo (very big, i cant remember...
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    Safe to say that my motherboard is now dead?

    Oh well...looks like i need a new motherboard. Thanks for the help but, atleast I know the bios is soldered so it can't be replaced.
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    Safe to say that my motherboard is now dead?

    And for the sake of it, here is a photo that I took of my bios: http://img245.imageshack.us/im...vm400mbiossmallgp7.jpg I'm guessing that's soldered? Thanks again.
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    Safe to say that my motherboard is now dead?

    Ok i checked out my BIOS and I think it's soldered. I couldn't remove it no matter how hard I tried. The bios looks like this: http://www.a7vtroubleshooting....icles/rd1/soldered.jpg and not like this: http://www.hardware-one.com/re...845/Iwill_P4S/BIOS.jpg Mine didn't have that socket...
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    Safe to say that my motherboard is now dead?

    Thanks a lot for your help mate. So basically, I just order a new one off ebay, that chip should come with the bios already on it, then i just insert the new chip and away i go? Hmm, now to find someone on ebay who can supply me with the bios i need...
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    Safe to say that my motherboard is now dead?

    I know I have the revision 1.0 board. So that's good news. Will I need to take the board to someone else to get the chip removed or is it something that I could do myself?
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    Safe to say that my motherboard is now dead?

    Yeah I will never use Windows again to flash a bios thats for sure... What do you mean by, its socketed? Does that mean I can change the bios chip?
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    Safe to say that my motherboard is now dead?

    I was told about using the 'clear cmos' jumper but for the life of me I have no idea where to find it on the motherboard. I've checked online and the manual and it doesn't seem to say anything. Anyone have any information about this? thanks.
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    Safe to say that my motherboard is now dead?

    A couple nights ago, I noticed that there was a newer BIOS for my spare computer's motherboard (Gigabyte GA-7VM400M) which allowed support for newer processes. I had version F6 installed and wanted to upgraded to F9. So, I decided to use Gigabyte's @Bios program. I downloaded the new F9 BIOS...
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    Record video at 16:9 using VLC

    When recording video, I can select 'Play Locally' which allows me to watch what is currently being recorded. This is in 16:9. However, when the recording has finished, the resulting file is still 4:3 and everything is squashed.
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    Record video at 16:9 using VLC

    Hello everyone, I have been trying to work this out for so long now, it's starting to get on my nerves. I often record TV shows from my set top box using VLC however the resulting file is always 4:3. How can I save the video stream as 16:9 instead? Once I open the file to watch it, I can...
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    All of a sudden, Sygate Personal Firewall won't turn on.

    Ok tried a virus scan and nothing was been found. I don't have a clue why its happened.