Recent content by Sandivar

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    ECS plus Athlon XP 2100 trouble booting

    Okay, trying to fix my friend's computer. Just wouldn't turn on for her one day. I troubleshot it to what appears to be a burned out CPU--black all around the middle of the CPU on both the pin side and top side, plus the fan was all clogged with dust. Bought a used chip (guaranteed...
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    Monitor Turns off

    Dunno if this will help or not, but my friend's Dell 19" LCD was doing that; the computer was still running fine but no monitor. She had to completely power off the monitor, wait a little while, then power it back on. Then it would only come on for a few seconds. She repeated that until she...
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    Update: pulled trigger...2.4b from newegg just ordered...

    Everyone is going on about the 2.4....will the 2.53 not overclock as high? How high an overclock (assuming a good chip) can you get with an Asus P4PE? Any experience with that one?
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    dumb question.. how to identify the speed of a processer

    Doesn't it show during the boot up process? Shrug, mine does.
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    What do the numbers mean on the processor?

    I have two AMD processors. I'm wondering what the number/letter combos on the processors mean. One says AO850MPR24B A One says K7600MTR51B A I get that the first one is an 850 Mhz and the second is a 600 Mhz K7. But what does the AO signify and how does that differ from the K7...
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    What to buy: ATI AIW Radeon, or GF2/KyroII + other vid capture?

    I'm trying to decide what video card to upgrade to: an ATI All in Wonder Radeon 32MB DDR or a GeForce2. I would like decent gaming ability; I don't have to have ultra fast frame rates, but I'm tired of not being able to play games because of my current weak, non-3D video card (Intel i740)...