Recent content by bfonnes

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    Loud pop followed by burning smell

    TOASTY!!!!!!! sorry, couldn't resist
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    grrrrrrrrrr no voltage up still?

    M2NPV-VM Release BIOS 0504 Support new CPUs. Please refer to our website at: http://support.asus.com.tw/cpusupport/cpusupport.aspx Support Frame Buffer Size to 256MB Patch default DDR2 Voltage setting Will Asus ever allow higher than 1.9 V DDR2 voltage on their nforce 430 chipset microATx...
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    Pros and Cons of Defragging hard drive.

    The windows defrag works just fine... Either turn off the paging file temporarily or better yet, just don't use one. BFonnes
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    Hard Drive Speed

    yep, drive overhead is usually the biggest bottleneck in a system... Drive overhead involves 3 main numbers that can be different from drive to drive that must be added together to get the amount of drive overhead... for instance...
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    Possible lightning strike damage

    so, lightning does strike twice! ;)
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    Possible lightning strike damage

    doesn't matter... sometimes the fans spin, but that doesn't constitute a working system... It's still the PSU. BFonnes
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    Trying to Break a Computer :UPDATE:

    Go to Key Bank or some other bank in your area where you can purchase a one-time (not refillable) use cash card and put as much money on it as you want for about $5. You can use it like a cc online, but, if your dad catches you using it to look up porn, don't say I told you about it. Don't you...
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    My girlfriends PC is being strange...

    well, you know about newegg, so half the battle is won ;) anyhow, Gigabyte, MSI, ASus, DFI are the main brands that ppl seem to buy and are happy with. I have an MSI board in my system and it seems to work ok. I wanted a Gigabyte, but the computer shop I went to only stocked MSI. Gigabyte...
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    Windows Randomly freezes

    I believe we're trying to fix a general computer issue... not trying to cause component failure, upping the voltage for overclocking will cause system instability rather than stability...
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    Windows Randomly freezes

    Did you try unplugging the hard drive before doing the memtest, and, did you test the memory in another system? If both the hard drive and the memory are fine, then replace the mainboard as Slammy1 said... BFonnes Just a reminder... before you determine the hard drive is bad, though...
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    Windows Randomly freezes

    You need to quit posting other ppl... Can't you tell he is confused? Thecrecarc needs to try one thing at a time, then you need to wait for him to respond and say what he's done and how effective it was... If he wants he can reread the thread... There is no reason to keep posting the...
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    Help me build a poker comptuer

    well, I'm not sure about that last part, refer to the link to the Microsoft support article posted earlier in the thread... As for limiting the size of your database, I would not automatically assume that is necessary until you do some testing, and also check task manager (ctrl-alt-del, click...
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    Help me build a poker comptuer

    The whole 10GB+ database will not remain fully in memory at any one time, though, so, this kind of RAM requirement should be unnecessary... Once the problem is solved it might be an interesting test to just take out half of your RAM and see if that has a significant "slowdown" effect on your...
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    Help me build a poker comptuer

    12 tables requires this much memory/CPU power. Somehow, I don't think so... I have Party Poker on my computer right now, and I can assure you that if I were to open up 12 windows of it, then it would not slow down... It is the combination of him running those 12 windows of the SAME poker...
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    Considering getting a better Gaming Mouse

    how do you mean? What's the question you're asking? I just did a keyword search on "razer mouse" to get those results... You can customize those links to newegg any way that you want to, Edit: OK, great, let me know which one you get when you make your decision... Any of those you'll be...