Recent content by shockX

Thanks fbrdphreak! I'll definitely check in after a week then... wouldn't want it to be gone for too long.

My eMachines m6811 crapped out the other day, I suspect that the graphics chipset fried itself out and rendered itself inable to display anything except pretty green blocks and funny colors and letters. Exciting, I know. Anyways, since I bought the 3yr warranty from Best Buy when I got it, I...

WOW i definitely did not expect a whole welcome thread when i joined lol... thanks for the welcome guys! and thanks smoke! i think the addiction is already kicking in, i'm checking every few minutes to see how my crunching has gone haha :o, 2 WUs done but it hasnt submitted yet. anyways...

firefox!

hey guys my computer is making this really great annoying buzzing-ish sound, i've tracked it down to the PSU fan. i want to open it up and mayb oil it up or replace the fan.. any precautions i should take before opening the PSU up? i've never done it and i dont really intend on getting shocked...

alrite thanks guys! you guys helped me out a lot :) i'll be going with an AMD Athlon XP 2500+, the NF7, a gig of pc3200 ram, and a big ata133 hard drive.

alrite, the barton 2500+ sounds good and cheap too :) but i'm usually an intel guy so i dont really follow amd stuff.. anyone care to recommend a good stable amd motherboard for overclocking? i'll probably be fitting it out with as much memory as i can humanly cram on it :P a bit off topic...

i'm the IT guy at this art firm i work at, and we're in the process of upgrading our computers. we do a LOT of photoshop work, manipulating images that are 50-100MB+. currently we're using workstations with dual 650MHz P3s with PC100 SDRAM (512MB) and SCSI 10k rpm disks on win2k. with the...

oops nevermind guys... someone found the box! the quick way of ID'ing something :P thanks for reading anyways! also found out that you can ID it by booting up and the BIOS will tell you at the beginning (for anyone who might be interested...)

hey i'm upgrading some computers at the firm i'm working at, but first i gota figure out what specs their current machines are at. i have no problem ID'ing the cpus and hard disks etc with their serial numbers, but i cant seem to ID the motherboard that this specific workstation is on.. what i...

thx 4 the replies so far.. i tried closing down all the processes (cept for vital system ones), i turned off automatic reporting, i disabled indexing, and tried removing the zip drive too... i also tried turning off all those effects in winxp (so it looks like old windows, none of that flashy...

bump i just borrowed a stick of 128MB ram from a friend and its still the same... any ideaS?

i just did a clean install of XP about a week ago, and so far its really great, except for this one problem. the problem is that no matter where, the screen seems to freeze for half a second, about every second. its not noticable at first, but after a while it really gets on my nerves...

northwood for me... mainly cuz of the heat... i'm trying to minimize heat as much as i can for my next "quiet" system, while maintaining some performance; right now performance isnt as important as keeping it quiet... and amd is jes too hot for me.

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