Recent content by Kennysan

Well, your idea sounds great, except the soft reboot happens so rarely (3 times in one week) that I have absolutely no idea what causes it, much less how to recreate the problem. I checked the windows event log after a recent crash, but there were no errors associated with the reboot. Does this...

So, a reboot just happened a few minutes ago. I ran memtest, and my computer's memory seems to check out. I don't know what prime is, though, or what it would test. I ran the asus temp probe after the reboot, and my comp read a 41 C CPu temperature, and a 37 degree mobo temp. This was...

Hello. My newly built machine gives me random soft reboots. There's no blue screen of death. I have no warnings that it will reboots--it just happens randomly. So far, it's happened twice, once, while playing a video game, and a second time while I was just chatting online, which makes me think...

I checked the ram. It's pretty secure. I also tried swapping out one/both of the memory sticks, same effect. Maybe I should run to bestbuy and get some generic ram and see if that works?

Ok, so it turns out that I didn't have the video card plugged in to the power supply. Now, however, it makes 1 long beep, followed by 3 short beeps. Is this a memory problem?

Oh, haha, I found the problem. I accidentally disconnected the mobo's connection to the PSU. Now, I'm getting one long beep, followed by 2 short ones. The Asus manual doesn't have anything about the beep pattern. Would anyone know where I could find out information about this?

So, I'm using an AMD X2 3800+ processor with an M2N-SLI deluxe mobo, with ocz ram. I plug everything in, and start my system. I don't see anything, and I hear 3 beeps coming from the computer. I shut off the machine and restart it. Same thing. So, I completely unpower the machine, and try...

So, it's time for me to build my first desktop PC in a long time. I want to build a performance/gaming rig for under $1000. Currently, with just the dual core athlon processor, mobo, PS, CD/DVD burner, and case, that's costing about $434. I still need to buy ram, a hard drive, and a video card...

I'm planning on getting an ASUS M2N-E Socket AM2 mobo. I noticed a good deal for OCZ ram on the anandtech forums, but that vendor isn't listed on the qualified vendor list on the mobo's manual. Any advice on what I need to check to make sure I'm getting the right kind of ram?

This is my first time putting a computer together. I came to anantech to get some advice on the parts that I will be using for my computer, and possibly help when it comes to putting my machine together. I intend to use my machine for general programming/compiling/running of code, listening to...