Recent content by vic5014

The problem appears to have been one of the 1gb sticks of ram I added. now I just have to figure out how to test it to see what's wrong and if I can get it replaced.

I have a dimension 8300 (spare me the laughter and snide comments, please). lately, it refuses to boot windows. it keeps giving me a message saying one of my hard drives was not detected. I have 3 hard drives: 2 160gb pata drives and 1 750gb sata drive, drives C, D, and G. it keeps saying it...

I know there's something on my computer because I can't launch my firewall program (zonealarm suite) and it blocked me from installing MS security essentials and from running housecall (claimed the link was broken). also, the link to MSSE on MS's site was blocked (again claimed the link was...

I installed the latest drivers because the windows error reporting thing said it was a driver issue. That didn't solve the problem so now I'm wondering what my next step should be.

What are the warning signs your video card is about to kick the bucket? I'm wondering because I keep getting BSODs after playing games for a couple hours. The error messages seem to indicate a driver problem, but I'm using the latest 8-12 drivers (I have a 9600xt; no laughing, please.) Could...

thanks for the answers. Got any benchmarks to back it up? I didn't realize the tl-60 was that bad, though its no secret the higher end mobile core 2's blow it away. Overclocking is not a consideration, given that these are retail computers from major oems (HP and gateway), and laptops don't...

Just get a cheap video card made in the last couple of years. nearly all gpus now support offloading of processing from the cpu for hi-def video decode and playback. Read the quote more carefully. The speed mentioned is in the absence of any kind gpu-assisted playback. Heck, plenty of integrated...

I'm looking to replace my old computer, but will probably buy from the store to keep costs down. I'm looking at 6 computers. One has an e2180, another an x2 5400. The third has an e2220 and the fourth an x3 8450. The first two and the last two cost the same and have the same amount of ram and...