Recent content by Couchy

Hey guys, I got home from work today and discovered my computer frozen. When I rebooted my system did not POST or beep. After troubleshooting for 2 hours I finally found a suspect. When I remove all devices from the computer except for PSU and CPU I get 1 long beep and 2 short beeps. After...

This just started happening on my Abit BX-133 I tried switching floppy drives but same problem persists. Its not the power cable because I can get the light to stay on if I put the IDE cable in wrong, but when it comes to bootup, I get that error. I can't try switching cables because all my...

Hi I was wondering if anyone could give me advice on my ram configuration for my old computer I'm running primarily as a media rig to watch movies and listen to music on. It is an Intel p3-933 running on an Abit BX-133 that currently has a stick of Mushkin 256mb pc-133 ram. In another...

thanks for the tip i ended up deleting it from device manager, rebooting and it installed after that from the cd

i replaced a SB Live card with an Audigy 2, but I forgot to uninstall the Live before putting in the Audigy. When XP booted, it crashed. I went into safe mode, uninstalled the Live, rebooted. Now I cant install the Audigy because the installer says it can't detect the card, and the Add Hardware...

Ok thanks guys, I think I might try something like this: http://www.bigfootcomputers.com/Merchan...Product_Code=1023&Category_Code=700.41 simple 4cm fan, should do a better job than the stock one.

Hey I was wondering if anyone has had any success installing a Thermaltake a1899 to replace the crappy fan for the nforce4 chipset? http://www.thermaltake.com/coolers/chipset/a1899.htm Asus must have had a bad run of parts because I have seen many people complain about this fan on the...

Make sure you plug in the 24 pin power, the 4 pin power for the video, and the small power cord as well. At first, I only had the 24 pin connected, so the system would power up but would not post and nothing appeared onscreen. Then I plugged in the small power and I got the system to post and...