Recent content by IgnisFatuus01

Thank you Stargazr, that was the problem!!

Moderator, please remove/lock this thread. I have placed this request for help in the Computer Help forum.

Transferred this from General Hardware as it seems to be better siuted here. Put everything together last night and all went well with the exception of my computer not seeing the HDD. In the ASRock EUFI under the Advanced Storage Tab shows my SSD on SATA3_A1 and my HDD on SATA3_1...

Put everything together last night and all went well with the exception of my computer not seeing the HDD. In the ASRock EUFI under the Advanced Storage Tab shows my SSD on SATA3_A1 and my HDD on SATA3_1. Additionally the EUFI shows: SATA Controllers: ENABLED SATA Mode Selection: AHCI...

Thanks all who provided comments and suggestions for my build. Also Mfenn has done a great job with the mid-range build that is stickied in this forum. This is what I have decided to get: CPU: i5-3570K Mobo: ASRock Z77 Extreme4 RAM: 16GB total Samsung 240 pin DDR3 1600 PSU: Rosewill...

I'm sure this is easier than I am envisioning but those who are married know your life is in danger if you screw up the wife's computer :) My wife's computer is begining to die so I would like to transfer her My Documents Folder, her games (christ, there has to be >100 of them...) ...

Thank you Lehtv for the honest appraisal and advice. I have never had a computer with a SSD and just "assumed" it wasn't a necessarily significant item to include in a gaming build. I am thinking now if I included a SSD I could use my current HDD (640GB) instead of purchasing a new one. Am I...

1. PC will be used for gaming mostly (MMOs, Skyrim, Borderlands 2, etc) 2. Budget around 1100.00USD 3. United States 4. Intel-Fanboy for CPU, am up in the air over Nvidia/ATI. Have owned both, and currently use ATI 5. Will not be using any currents parts, all will be purchased new...

She does a bit of gaming along with the rest of the family...Mom, Dad, brother and grandparents

Thanks for the response and the reminder to reset te BIOS setting for the graphics card.

I was looking to build a computer for my grand-daughter using a M4A88T-M Motherboard (it has onboard graphics with Radeon 4250) and the specs for this board says "no Directx 11 support". However I was going to replace the integrated graphics with an HD5770 card. If I run Windows 7 with the...

Thank you for the answers.

I new guy here, I am looking to get a new i7 computer and have a question about the amount of RAM sticksthat can be loaded. Does the RAM need to be in multiples of 3? ie putting in 4GB RAM or 5 GM RAM would not work and I would need to go with either 3GB or 6 GB. Thanks!