Recent content by Drolith

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    Weird crashing...

    ok well I reformatted all drives, and reinstalled windows on a separate drive just in case that new drive was bad...runs fine all day and night, gaming and everything. Then I come home and it is off...try to boot it up and it shuts down trying to load windows. At this point I'm confused so I...
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    Weird crashing...

    yeah with the new hardware came a clean format of all drives and new install. One thing I considered was a corrupt file but wasn't too sure. I can try a clean install and see what happens...just sucks :P. See the weird thing is I can sit in Diablo 2 for hours but once I go to attack an enemy...
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    Weird crashing...

    My power supply should be more than adequate...Enermax is one of the best brands, and it is 80+ certified. volts sit at: +3.3v:3.34v +5v:6.85v +12v:12.29v And yes it does just shut down, no reboot.
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    Weird crashing...

    ok I'll start off by listing my hardware(all of this minus the WD HDs are new, as of a few days): mobo: Gigabyte GA-M750SLI-DS4 CPU:AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ Windsor HDs:250gb Seagate, 70gb WD raptor, 160gb WD caviar GPU:EVGA 9800GTX PSU: Enermax Pro82+ 625W Memory: 2x2gb G.skill DDR1066...
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    Two problems. Hard drive conflict, Frames Per Second...

    well I hope its not hard drive hardware failure, sense these are new drives. Seems I did a chkdsk before but I'll try again. and no its not just one game, I am having poor FPS performance on every game. But it only seems to be extremely noticable on First Person Shooters (example hitman...
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    Two problems. Hard drive conflict, Frames Per Second...

    Start with what essential hardware I am currently running: Foxconn K8S755A-6ELRS Socket 754 SiS 755 AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Socket 754 ZALMAN 600W Power Supply (Modular) Western Digital Caviar 160GB 7200 RPM SATA Western Digital Raptor 74GB 10,000 RPM SATA 2x 512mb of Corsair Value DDR400...
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    weird booting issue...

    Ok well my issue, The first time each day when I turn on my computer all my fans turn on But it wont POST just sits there..everything lights up like it suppose to just no post...but when I hold the power button turn it off then turn it back on it POSTS and works fine...been doing this for little...
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    New Computer Question

    ok well as I FIGURED!! The beast wouldn't do what I want...ok I turn it on...*unlike a long time ago* it turned on, all the fans were roaring and the DVD-rom will open and close...not sure if it is recognizing the Floppy but that could be fixed...but a big problem...you know when you turn on...
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    New Computer Question

    Hey I am almost complete building my first computer and was wondering, when I plug the monitor into my graphics card and turn this puppy on, what is going to come up on the screen with no O/S? will it go straight to bios or just be a black screen till I boot it from a disk or CD and start...