Recent content by REDCHAOSTRY

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    Requesting help with troubleshooting.

    To anyone that can help, I was resently asked by a friend to look at his PC. It is a 2-3 year old Gateway, 1.8Gig Intel rig. Upon observation I found the following: 1. A very long windows boot time, normally 3-7 minutes. During which the computer is completely unresponsive. 2. What...
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    Need Help with New System Build

    Thank you all for your help. The new rig is up and running well. mechBgon it was the ATX12V cable, thanks to you for pointing me in that direction.
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    Need Help with New System Build

    Thank you for the suggestion, I will try it as soon as possible. I forgot that putting the RAM into a slower motherboard, will just underclock it from its rated speed.
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    Need Help with New System Build

    Yes, I wiped the BOIS, following the procedure from the motherboard User Guild page 2-19.
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    Need Help with New System Build

    Hello, I am building a new pc for myself (this being my 3rd self built system) and I have run into a problem. I put the system together and attempted a power up with no luck, but I did have have power led light up on motherboard. Troubleshooting lead me to the power switch (behind the face...
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    Final Fantasy XI Benchmark Issues

    I recently got FF XI, and Im enjoying lots right now. I was orginally playing it with a Radeon 8500 64MB, and got a Low Res score of 3515 on the benchmark. Since DirectX 9 games are suppose to be out next year, I figured that I could upgrade my video card to get ready for them. I chose to go...