Recent content by John Williams

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    Applications not closing in Task Manager

    I'm having an odd issue - applications aren't closing properly. It isn't a specific application, or applications from a specific company, just random applications. Here's the deal. I run a few things, use my computer a bit, and it starts feeling sluggish. I open Task Manager and a number...
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    Power Supply or Mobo? Something else?

    I found another power supply and tried switching it out and got exactly the same result. Is there an easy way to find out which component needs replaced? I don't have another mobo with the same socket.
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    Power Supply or Mobo? Something else?

    Last night my system was working fine. Today I woke up this morning and my PC wouldn't finish booting. It would get to the logo screen ("Press DEL to enter setup, Press TAB to display POST") and stay there (it won't won't respond to the keyboard, so I can't see the POST or access the BIOS.)...
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    Widescreen on fullscreen issue

    I prefer the feel of widescreen when a game properly supports it. My monitor is a plain old CRT, so there is no section for scaling.
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    Widescreen on fullscreen issue

    I just got an nVidia 8800GT. My monitor is a Viewsonic G220fb fullscreen CRT. Since I installed the 8800, I haven't been able to use widescreen resolutions for anything. If I set up a widescreen resolution, in a game or on the desktop, instead of putting black bars on the top and bottom of...
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    Video corruption at 1600x1200

    Just an FYI, I just spent an evening logging temperatures, and it never breaks 50 degrees, even under heavy load. I've tried more drivers and settings now - even lower resolutions - and am getting the same result. Every hour or two, the screen goes nuts. Alt-tabbing fixes it instantly...
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    Video corruption at 1600x1200

    Viewsonic G220fb. It supports 1600x1200 at 85hz, and I've had this problem at both 85hz and 75hz.
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    Video corruption at 1600x1200

    I've had this problem with my 7900GT PCIE since I got it, including across a replacement of my motherboard/processor/RAM. If I run games at 1600x1200, every now and then the screen will go wonky. I will just show video noise - flickering colors and lines and so forth. This isn't mixed into the...
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    Trouble diagnosing memory/mobo problems.

    I went ahead and RMA'd the RAM. I got the new RAM in today. 1 hour, 24 minutes into the test, pass 1, errors 14. Here is a photo of the MemTest86 error screen. The details don't mean much to me, but maybe will to someone here. Unless I got two sets of RAM in a row that are bad, I'd guess...
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    Ugly errors, completely unusable

    Sorry to play the idiot, but what sort of registry scan do you mean?
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    Ugly errors, completely unusable

    Since the last post, I've done a full spyware check, a full thorough virus check, completely removed my soundcard and all drivers, and done scans of my hard drives. It still errors within a few seconds of boot and cripples the machine.
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    Ugly errors, completely unusable

    My computer is causing me some ugly headaches. I shut it down last night like always, but when I loaded it up, I got a Generic Host Process error. It is a new error. I pasted the exact error details below. Once the error popped up, nothing would run. It didn't exactly lock up, but nothing...
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    Trouble diagnosing memory/mobo problems.

    ...and again. Three hours into the test, and MemTest86 locked up completely. RMA the RAM? RAM the RMA? Try a power supply first (which I may not be able to swing at all, financially?)
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    Trouble diagnosing memory/mobo problems.

    Not a thing. One of the first things I did when I started having problems was to ensure that all of my BIOS settings were set to their defaults.
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    Trouble diagnosing memory/mobo problems.

    I upped it to 2.1 manually. MemTest86 ran about an hour and locked up solid, no errors, just a hard lock. I'm trying the test again now.