Recent content by goose13

I don't know if it's time for a new monitor or if it's a cable or what. In order to see anything, be it video or games, I need to turn the contrast and the brightness all the way up on my monitor. It's pretty old, about 6-8 years I'd say. It's an NEC 19" i got with my Alienware some time ago. I...

I can never reproduce it. I could go all day without it happening or it'll happen 4-5 times a day. And it happens mostly when I play games like World of Warcraft of BF2, which is why I thought the card was over heating, but it does it just when Im listening to winamp or just web surfing. I...

Figured 8 was wrong, thanks for the info. Im using an Evga Nvidia 6800gt 256MB with an Arctic Cooling NV silencer.

Knew I forgot something. Its an Antec Neopower 480w. It's 12v and if Im reading the box right its 8amps.

I put together a system about a year ago and it's been trouble free for the whole time till about a month or so ago. Randomly my system will just reeboot on its own. Black screen and then the lanparty startup screen. All my temps are within normal parameters. I dont think its my vid card...

I tried to connect an external HD to my system today and the firewire isnt reading the drive. All the USB ports are, but for some reason the firewire isn't. Also, all of the USB drives are 1.1 and not 2.0. I installed the 2.0 drivers but each time I get a popup saying that it would perform...

I recently, with the help of a friend, built a new system. I got an EVGA 6800 GT vid card and an Arctic Cooling NV Silencer 5 Rev 2 fan for cooling. It's been running fine for about 2 months now until this weekend I noticed some games started locking up and freezing. I opened the case to...