Recent content by haserfauld

I had him disable the HDA in bios and now everything is golden. He's stoked, haha. Thanks for the pointers

Yeah I thought he had 2gb as well, but I guess he got two of them, oh well. So he got frustrated while I was at work today and disassembled the whole thing and rebuilt it. Now it magically works. Everything is golden, and the only problem he has is getting his x-fi to install. I seem to remember...

I'll have him try that. This is the ram I used: http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16820231144 he has 4 sticks.

Okay, so leaving it did nothing. I had him yank everything non-essential. I had him go into bios and his voltages were low. I googled and found safe levels, and had him change those. His RAM volts were at 1.8, but his ram wants 2-2.1. He also upped the FSB/NB to recommended levels (ace-a-rule's...

I asked him to try that, and he had to run out to the store, so I had him leave it up. When he gets back, if that doesn't fix it, I'm gonna have him start pulling parts. The xfi, all but one of the ram sticks, and maybe try his old video card just for the sake of it. Thanks for the tip

That's what I figured, but I like...triple checked with him. He hits F10 and saves/exits bios, and THEN this "hardware monitor" comes up. It's different than the hardware monitor in bios, which is strange. He can restart the computer, not entire bios at all, and this thing still comes up and...

Hello, I'm sorry to register on these forums and come straight to begging for help, but I'm really stuck on this issue. One of the guys on my gaming team wanted to upgrade his computer, but he's not really tech savvy. I built him a new PC, basically, and he got the parts in. He knows what...