Recent content by Ballistic223

My wife has a laptop that has a P3 600 in it and she would like to know if it can be upgraded to something faster? I looked on pricewatch and I can get a P3 1.0g that runs on a 100Mhz FSB would this work in her laptop? It is a Compaq Presario 1700XL 600 Mhz P3 192 Megs ram If the 1 gig wont...

You had to be dialed up for the Sat to download when I was using sat.

Thanks for the info guys. I am waiting on the mobo to be sent back or replace right now. If I have the same problem I will be buying a new PSU.

For right now I am going to be using the integrated video (GeForce4 MX) But I will be upgrading the video card in the not to distant future. So how many watts would you all recommend? I am very limited in the amount of money that I can spend right now on stuff for the computer :( Thanks for...

What is a good powersupply that is not overly expensive?

I have used 2 different DIMM's had the same problem. (Both were new Kreton PC2700) I dont have another computer to run memtest86 on. I tried different IDE cables and still had the same problem. I also tried 2 different CDRoms still did the same thing. With the error that WinXP gave me...

Well here is a little update. I have reset the BIOS to defaults ---- Didnt help I have unhooked everything but the HD and CD --- Same I have tried 2 different HD's (the Seagate and a 16 gig maxtor) ---- same prob with both The CPU is running at 34-36 C (according to the BIOS) the fsb is set...

I have formatted it MANY times. That is not the problem. I am thinking that the Mobo is bad. :( I hope not the RMA people at newegg are not gonna be liking me :P Well gotta go to work. Could flashing the BIOS possibly help?

I have been trying to get everything from win 95 to win XP on the computer that I just built and none of them will make it as far as to boot the OS. Win95 will give me protection error (something about while initializing IOS) Win98 wont even make it to installing the files. WinXP will...

Are the 9600SE cards anygood? What difference does the 64bit memory make? Also what is the DVI port? Sorry if I sound dumb asking this I just haven't read about it anywhere. I am just gettin back into building and upgrading computers :P

I am thinking about getting a new video card for my computer and can only spend upto $125. It will be used for gaming (mainly SOF2 and Medal of Honor). I dont have the have all of settings maxed and running superhigh resolutions. What chipset is the best for gaming, ATI or Nvidia?? ...

I now have a floppy drive :P But those changes in the bios were made :) Hopefully the ram will be here on monday or tuesday :(

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It was the ram. Put the ram in my brothers computer and it wouldnt do as much as it would in mine. Called NewEgg got a RMA number, sending it back tomarrow. SO hopefully I will have it up and going next week. Thanks for the input yall