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Hey guys, I'm hoping someone can shed some light on this situation that is driving me absolutely crazy. I've built my current system about 1 year ago with the following hardware: CoolerMaster Centurion Asus A8NE Socket 939 Mboard AMD Manchester dual core 2400+ ATI X1800 XT (512 MB)...

I've had to use Stellar Phoenix a few times for this. It's not free - about $75 if I remember, but that's a lot less than data recovery professionals will charge you. Just keep in mind that you may not get 100% of the data, but I got like 95% of my mp3's and just about all of my game saves...

Vcore = 1.36V 3.3V = 3.4V 5V = 4.91V 12V = 11.84V All from the BIOS. Looks close to me? Anyway I also have updated my BIOS in addition to reinstalling drivers, etc. After doing a little researching on some boards (including this one), it's also possible that this could be faulty RAM...

only thing i see in the event log is some bad sectors on my hard drive. just had a nasty crash where a bit of my registry got corrupted. i was worried a little bit about a virus, but nothing popped up on an AntiVir scan. well i'll try reinstalling some drivers and see what i can find out...

Hey guys: recently built a new computer with the following: Asus A8NE nforce4 MB AMD X2 dual core 3800+ Manchester 2 GB Corsair PC 3200 DDR SDRAM ATI Radeon x1800XT (512 MB) Fortron 500W PSU Scythe Ninja heatsink/fan Cooler Master Centurion case So everything looked great initially...

Yeah sorry, typo on the 1600 thing, it should be 1680. Thanks for the suggestions! I'll give these things a shot. Forgot all about that damn ClearType thing.

Hey guys, Based on the buyer's guide, I am now the proud owner of a new ViewSonic vx2025WM. Wow is this thing nice! It replaced an old Viewsonic CRT that was quite a dinosaur. It wouldn't display any resolution correctly BUT 800x600. So based on that information, I'm having quite a bit...

$1500 budget pretty solid. I'd like to not move much more than that. Less is better, even. As for the screen I guess bigger is better without sacrificing the weight. 15.4 seems like a pretty nice size just from looking at varous laptops. Light gaming... well I have a desktop that I think...

So I'm looking hard at purchasing a new laptop primarily for travel and to carry to/fro from work. I have a desktop at home that is my primary "home base" with a big hard drive to house mp3's, do gaming, etc., but it would be nice to do some light gaming on the laptop when things get slow, etc...

Will do. Thanks for the help guys. Will report back if this doesn't work.

Greetings! I've been having a somewhat strange problem (to me) that has occurred recently. The problem seems to only occur from a cold boot. When I start the computer, it will boot straight to windows like normal, but then lock up within 30 seconds. After this when I reboot, I'll get a...

I have already done that, I don't mean to ignore it. I can get the hard drive to show up in the bios and in windows disk management with the "master/slave" setting or cable select. Unfortunately, the drive ONLY will show up as an unformatted partition in XP. I was only hoping that maybe I was...

Yeah I can get it to show up as a lettered drive now, but Windows says it's an unformatted drive. :( I think the big problem was that I had that one drive split into two partitions. XP must have freaked out and couldn't recognize the two partitions.

Well to give a little bit of an update... I hooked everything back up to the old mb and processor and now the old drive won't even boot off of that (it was the primary drive for that system). It's not saying anything like "disk boot failure" or anything, it just freezes at the screen where all...

Well in Disk Management it shows up as a "free space" partition (but not as a drive letter). My current setup is the two hard drives on the primary controller and the DVD/CDRW on the secondary controller. I basically just left the settings alone and plugged it in and when they both popped up...