Recent content by B1adez

could anyone just tell me if they think that the mobo and the vid card are fried, or just the video card.

bump. Also, when I turn the computer on all the fan LEDS light up. THe green mobo light also turns on.

I recenty bought a Compro VIDEOMATE TVGOLD+, which is a TV Tuner Card. I installed it easily, an it worked fine. That was last thursday(3/10). I just booted my computer up an hour and a half ago, and started to watch TV,when i smelt something funny and noticed the card was on fire. I quickly...

Well, through trial and error, I found that my HD didnt have proper power (had a fan attached to it). And, as before the two optical drives dont work, so I cant reinstall windows as I cant get into the CD drive. They show up in BIOS, as before, and I unplugged the DVD drive, disabled the...

Anyone have an idea as to what the status of my HD is?

I tried doing what you said in your other reply, unlugging the drive that is. It didnt work when I unplugged either. I then tried replacing my SATA cable with the stock one, no luck there, with any combo of unplugged optical drives. I heard no activity from the drive in any instances. In all...

First of all, thanks for all the support, secondly, I can no longer get into windows as my HD (Raptor 75 gb) isnt being detected in bios or windows setup, thus I cant even get into my previous windows installation. The SATA cable is glowing blue like usuall, so I think that the cable is working...

Ok, recently I got infected with a virus. I couldnt use my USB Linksys wireless nework adapter, and there were a variety of other problems. I decided to do a fresh install of Windows fter running a kaspersky check. I have a SATA WD 75 GB raptor, so I went through the normal process of the...

Update/Bump: Now upon booting I getting a message saying Hard Disk Not Detected, To Continue Press F1. The only way to continue is to insert my XP disk. When I reboot an insert my XP disc, on the VIA scanning for HDD screen, it says there are no drives, whereas it use to say WDRPT750G or...

I recently did a new installation of Windows XP Home on my computer. Its specs are as follows: AMD 64 3000+ ASUS K8V SE Deluxe 1 Gig (2 x 512) Corsair Value Select Ram (Single Channel) Powercolor ATI Radeon 9600 Pro 75 GB WD Raptor 10k RPM Asus S520 52x CD drive NUTech DVD-/+RW drive NEC...

Thanks, I thought that driver on the Mobo disc was for something else I wasnt using. Works in 8x now.

Thanks guys, its all good now

Ok I recently bought this for my new PC, and I was looknig in 3dmark03 and it said I was runnig at 1 GHZ, and the max clock speed was 2.4 GHZ. I checked at a different site and they said that 3dmark03 can get that info wrong and as long as it says 2 GHz in BIOS your ok. I thought well thats cool...

Hello, I recently puchased a PowerCOlor 9600 PRO along with many other things when I built my new PC. After I got it all running, I used 3dmark03, and when comparing my results it said that I have an AGP rate of ox out of 8x. I then looked in the ATI Driver tool, went to smartgart and tried to...