Recent content by lilstd

my rig has been sitting in a friend's basement for about three months collecting dust and possibly moisture. I moved back into my place yesterday and boot up my machine. i noticed horizontal or vertical lines through the screen when i was running programs that were graphics intensive. i shrugged...

it doesnt matter what voltage I set my cpu at. once it crosses the 261 FSB barrier, the computer won't post.

help me plzzzzzzz!!

I have a P4 2.4c right now with an Abit IS7 and 2x256 of Corsair 3200LL (CH-5) memory. Right now, I can overclock my chip to about 3.12 ghz without any voltage increase. But as soon as the FSB gets above 260 mhz, the computer won't post. I'm certain that this isn't a problem with the cpu...

memory prices are ridiculous right now. however, it could be very difficult (and costly) to find a matched stick in the future. i'd say that as long as you're not into benchmarking, you won't really notice the difference between unmatched sticks as opposed to matched ones. If you aren't...

My external (Creative Extigy) sound card recently decided to crap out on me. Unfortunately, the warranty for it is no longer valid. Naturally, I plugged in my speakers to the Onboard sound on the motherboard. However, there are a number of issues that I'm having with it. 1. The sound is...

when the screen comes on counting down the time until shutdown, go to start -> run then type "shutdown -a" as text. The shutdown screen should go away so you can update your stuff.

will try things out tomorrow. thanks guys

I didnt have any fans on the "fan only" connector Something was definitely burning inside my psu. But the yellow stuff could very well be glue, I'm just not sure at this point :\ I dont see any blown capacitors anywhere on my board/vid card. No hard mods and minor overclocking. Is there...

Hey, a friend of mine is having this problem. I think his computer had a virus on it that changed the file format from ntfs to unknown. For this reason, windows doesnt seem to be booting up. Every time the windows image comes up on startup, the computer reboots itself. And so, naturally, I...

thanks for the reply eeyorex i'm not really sure if this has anything to do with my problem, but i'm not sure if my power supply was feeding enough juice to the cpu. quite often, cpu vcore would dip down to 1.46 with 1.525 as idle and 1.550 in bios. Perhaps this fluctuation was an indicator of...

aint curiosity a bitch. I opened up my power supply and saw that there was yellow gunk everywhere. I think something blew up in there. Great, now my warranty is void. I dont see any volcanic capacitors on my motherboard, so hopefully none of my other components are damaged. I'm now in the...

Hey guys, I'm afraid to turn on my computer right now. Earlier, I was browsing the web. All of a sudden, I hear popping noises from inside my computer. These noises got progressively louder. Immediately, and panicked, I shut off my system completely. I opened my system, but could not locate...

bump for myself thanks

My rig is in the sig. I'm running a antec true 380 power supply. I was wondering why my cpu voltage jumped around so much. When i'm playing games, the fps dips down when the voltage hits 1.46 or sometimes even lower. In the bios, the default cpu voltage is set at 1.550. Should I consider bumping...