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Hi, recently i bought a new PC and i loaded XP64 on it it installed fine without me having to install 3rd party SATA drivers the computer found my hard drive in the sata 1 slot no problem. MY friend got the same computer AS me and using the same hard drive and every thing. the board will not...

Hi, I'm from Ireland My mother board is an ASUS P5W-DH Deluxe which needs a 24 pin and 4 pin 12v connection to run, does the Black Diamond Power Supply 12cm Fan, 20/24 Pin, SLI 2x6pin, 500Watt have a 24 and 4 pin connector or just a 24 with detachable 4 pin for 20 pin and seperate 4 pin...

Below are some of the cons of vista X64 i.ve heard it runs very slow also, i know may system is be no means old are low end. but i'm wondering will affect gaming to use Vista x64? Digital Rights Management Another common criticism concerns the integration of new forms of Digital Rights...

Hi, just bought some parts for a machine but don't know which version of XP to load it with SPEC: ASUS p5wDH Deluxe Intel Duo E6600 core 2 Western digital SATA 2 500gb H/h x 2 Sapphire X1950pro 2gb DDR 2 Crucial PC2-6400 etc dvd drive......... should i use 64 bit XP or what...

thanks , i may use it sometimes to play games when i'm at home. i mean it's not a bad rig i can still play games on it now, but i guess that card will do

Hi i currently have a PowerColor Radeon 9600 PRO EZ AGP i'm selling it and want a similar card to replace it for about 100 euro for my parents home, i am about to buy a new computer for myself, i was wonderin what a good AGP card would be for my old one spec below I was looking at this one...

Hey i'm the guy Conor026 is getting info together for, I was wondering is it worth buying the Antec earthwatts 500W PSU or any 80 Plus PSU if plan on playing games on the system, i read a review of the PSU and all the guy seems to say was he didn't like the look of the power supply (something i...

Hi, thanks for all the comments, based on what you guys have been talkin about i've decided to upgrade my machine, i jus got payed so i'm budgeting myself for about 1000 euro but this is flexible for a new mobo,ram, graphics card and case i'm in ireland so i'm gonna get shafted by the online...

you were right thank a million, but why was the power LED still lighting with the borken power supply? and i don't know how it broke as the pc was idle

Hi, Video card Question for all you buffs who will roar PCI-Express until I'm deaf. I'm just wondering firstly is it safe to get a GeForce 7800GS 256MB video card for my system as you can see in the spec below there's a lot of stuff plugged into it, I know it recommends a 350w Power...

Hi, I have a PC that will not power up no matter what, but I've ruled out a lot of things (I think). I had been using the machine before Christmas and plugged it out and left it idle for about a week while using a better machine. Then I hooked it back up again, the power L.E.D...

Hey i hear that my board had difficulty with SATA 2 is this true, i have a Western Digital Caviar SE SATA200GB , and i'm planning on buying a Western Digital Caviar SE16 320GB SATA2 16MB 7200RPM reloading my machine using the new HD as master and the old one as slave. can this be done? if not...

Hey everyone, I a have a DSL connection (BT Ireland 2Mbps) registered to our family business which is on the main street of our town, but our home is on the outskirts of town. the main phone line is in the business premises and we have an extension set up that we switch to the house each day...

This is a list of my codecs maybe it's just a few of these i need to delete do any of these stand out as a problem. (MCI) CD Audio (MCI) Microsoft Video for Windows (MCI) Midi Sequencer (MCI) Sound Cinepak Codec by Radius Inc. Creative Audigy Audio Processor (WDM) DivX 6.2.5 Codec...

i really appreciate your help so don't take my caution as an insult but is it dangerous to system stability to uninstall these codecs and when i do uninstall them. will fddshow reinstall all of them as they were. thanks this sounds like it will work thanks a million