Recent content by chobo

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    Trobuleshooting help

    Hello, With the start of college in the coming months I decided to blow some of my graduation money on some computer upgrades, I bought a 3700+, dfi lanparty nf3 250g, 2 optical drives, a new case, and a new LCD. The problem is, my xfx 6600GT stopped working after changing the motherboard...
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    New monitor woes

    Hello, I've recently obtained a new viewsonic 19" g90fb monitor for christmas. When i run it at 1024/768 the picture is fine, but much too large, i would like to use a higher resolution. However, when i change it to 1280 or 1600 the picture becomes shakey and there is refreshing, like the...
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    Holiday Hardware Help!

    Hello and merry christmas, Today i recieved among some other stuff a Nvidia 6600GT and a new viewsonic monitor. I installed the drivers for the monitor, then removed my old video cards drivers and ran driver cleaner. I proceded to turn off my computer, remove my gf4ti4200, install the new...
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    Help with overheating

    Hello, I've recently come across my first system that i attempted to build, a HTPC in a mATX case. After putting everything together, my CPU temp in BIOS was ranging from 75-90 degrees, while the case temp was steady at 31. I thought running my heatsink without the fan would be fine, because...
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    Trouble enabling surround sound

    I know in winamp with my onboard 5.1 I needed to enable hardware acceleration in the main output plugin under preferences to get sound out of my other channels.