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    PC games hitching and memory errors.

    About a week ago, I overclocked my CPU moderately. I raised the clock speed from the default of 200 MHZ to 210 MHZ. Shortly after, I noticed strange symptoms in games. Despite getting more than 60 FPS in games like Mirror's Edge and Portal, nearly every game I've tested has had brief lapses...
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    Does anyone know what could be causing these weird artifacts?

    I've been having some weird texture problems with my XFX 4770. I was recently trying to create a custom fan speed profile in ATI Tray Tools, but I didn't click the check box that confirms I want to save the fan settings to the overclocking profile. Shortly after, I started to notice that...
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    New computer crashed, now won't load BIOS

    While browsing the internet yesterday, my computer suddenly displayed a blue screen that said that it was shutting down to prevent damage, or something along those lines. Since then, I haven't been able to access the BIOS. The error code was initially 4 beeps, which should signify a system timer...
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    New computer build won't load BIOS

    Recently, I bought a barebones PC from mwave. The main components were an MSI K9N6PGM2-V2 motherboard with nVidia Geforce 6150 SE integrated graphics, an AMD Athlon II X2 245 CPU with heatsink/fan, a Logisys 480w power supply, a Gigabyte ATX case, and a 2 GB RAM chip. All of these parts were...
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    Is there anything I'm missing?

    Since I've never assembled a computer before, I thought it would be unwise to start from scratch. So I purchased a barebones system from Mwave, along with additional components to boost its graphical output. MWAVE GZA micro ATX Barebone system - MSI K9N6PGM2-V2 nVidia 6150 chipset motherboard /...