I previously posted about my Laptop that will no longer accept power or charge from an AC adapter here: http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2100361
I really need a working laptop and I'm not able to figure out what's wrong with my old one so I'm on the hunt for a new one. That...
Need some ideas because I'm not sure where to go from here. I have a Compaq Presario V4000T that when plugged in, won't charge the batt. It did boot up when the batt had a charge so I know it works otherwise.
Things I've tried:
-Bought a new ac adaptor from hp, this did not work...
First, my current PC specs:
Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTS 320MB
Q6600 C2Q (OC'ed to 3 GHz)
2x2GB PC2 6400 DDR2 RAM
Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L motherboard
NeoPower 500W PSU
Western Digital WD3200JD 320GB HDD
So basically I'm not really happy with performance with newer games. I'd like to run them...
A while back my HDD parked while I was doing some heavy file transferring and RAR decompression. I was moving a large 4GB file while decompressing another large file and my HDD just parked in the middle of all this. It didn't unpark until a few minutes later. The entire time my computer appeared...
Around August of last year I built a new PC. Nearly all the internal components were new with the sole exception of a Creative X-FI sound card and my HDD which is a Western Digital Caviar WD3200JD.
To be honest, I don't remember when I bought it but I used it as a secondary HDD in my older...
Long story short, the OEM fan for my EVGA 8800 GTS was fine at idle but got quite loud when I loaded a game.
I installed an aftermarket heatsink and after a few configuration changes and options, I've settled on a 92mm fan blowing into the HS and across the VRAM. This is a fairly quiet...
I'm currently using a Western Digital SATA 1.5Gb/s 300GB HDD which for my needs is plenty of space. I have another 300GB in an external enclosure so space isn't a big concern.
However, I'm expecting some parts for a new build shortly and was wondering if I should get a new HDD to go with the...
Alright. I've been running the following system:
Athlon 64 3000+ (stock)
1GB RAM
Nvidia GeForce 6800 GT
Creative Audigy 2
nForce 3 motherboard (don't remember brand)
I built that around the time Doom 3 came out and for the most part, it's served me well. However, I need a new system...
I would just like to add that I had the same exact troubles with my previous SB Live! that it replaced. Coincidence?
Anyway, here's what happened. I got a new HDD enclosure and put my 300GB HDD in there to serve as a portable backup. I plugged it into the firewire port on the Audigy 2 card...
Here's a little backstory...
About 6 months ago, I noticed some weird graphical corruption on my screen. Pixels that appeared to be greenish-yellowish in color would pepper my desktop and there was massive graphical anomalies that would occur in a game if I tried to run one. After extensive...
I'm generally not into RPG games, Eastern or Western but there are a few that really grabbed my attention. The Knights of the Old Republic series (I played both) and Jade Empire were both fantastic games.
I know Bioware has made older RPGs like the Balder's Gate and Neverwinter Nights series...
I've had my Page File on a 5400rpm HDD on a secondary channel and just tonight I decided to reformat that HDD since for some reason it would constantly read as 24% fragmented in O&O even after running a defrag.
I put my page file on my C: while doing this but I haven't noticed much difference...
My current rig is running long in the tooth so I OC'ed it a bit. Due to my motherboard lacking decent OC options, I got my Newcastle 3000+ up to 2250mhz, with the memory running 1:1. My GeForce 6800 I was able to OC from 350mhz to 400mhz. GeForce mem only went from 1ghz to 1.09ghz.
Anyway, a...
I recently bought a second hand Biostar NF325-A7 board to replace a dead nForce 3(MSI I think). Since they're both nForce 3 based, I didn't have to reinstall Windows XP.
Anyway, browsing the web, it seems that nForce boards are the preferred boards for overclocking and many overclocking...
I'm having problems with my current rig and considering I've had it for a good couple of years I'll be upgrading in the fall.
Is there any particularly new video cards or CPUs coming out around that time that I should look for?
I'm not entirely sure why but I've been having a lot of trouble with my current PC. Same symptoms every now and then.
I had been thinking of overclocking my system and as per some advice, opened the case so I could put my SATA drive on the second channel. When I closed the case, the PC...
Basically this is the system I'm running right now:
ECS nForce 3 board
A64 socket 754 3000+ (newcastle) at default clock
(2) Mushkin 512MB DDR 400 (PC 3200) RAM
I've ran this system for a while and I'm satisfied with it. When I originally built it I used a Thermaltake XP-90 heatsink with...
When I had XP installed, I used UltraVNC. Now that I have Vista on my laptop and desktop, I tried out remote desktop on my home network and I like it. However, would it be safe to use Remote Desktop from say work or at a coffee shop? Would someone be able to sniff passwords and such?
Thanks.
A while back I got a bit paranoid about the inate insecurity of early windows builds like Windows 98 and bought a license to AI Roboform in order to store and encrypt my passwords. I've been using it all the way upto Windows XP although due to me constantly installing and reinstalling my OS...
I vaguely remember on The Screensavers when they showed a program on the mac that could sniff the wireless packets being transfered in an unsecured network and was able to display what was being downloaded by clients in realtime.
I'll be doing a workshop on wireless security and I'd like to...
Very recently I've been having trouble with my home network. Keep in mind that it's been working very literally for years. When it goes down, it's almost always do to a program I installed on my desktop and I usually find a way around the problem or simply uninstall the program.
Recently...
Basically I've been having trouble with my computer. Occasionally it would power up but would not POST. Other times, it wouldn't power up at all.
I assumed it was the motherboard and replaced it. It was an MSI motherboard with Via chipset for a socket 754 Athlon 3000+. The replacement was an...
When I'm at school, work, or anywhere else people have laptops, I usually see people with their headphones listening to music. I've recently discovered Pandora and wanted to listen to some music while I was studying.
However, there is a noticeable electric hum coming from the headphone jack...
I have a wireless laptop and a wired desktop behind a WRT54G with WPA2 enabled with a 63 character key.
I have one port (5900) set on port forwarding on the router to point to my desktop because I occasionally use UltraVNC.
In my last thread that went unanswered, I've had some network...
I had a simple home network running behind a Linksys WRT54G router. My Windows XP Pro desktop is wired to the router and my Windows XP Home laptop is connected wirelessly. Because of the small size of the Laptop hard drive, I had a few shares established on my Desktop to stream video and mp3...
I've established a rather small home network. With my laptop on WiFi, I can access certain folders I've shared on my main desktop PC.
I'd like to be able to access my home desktop when I'm on the road at wifi spots like at coffee shops and the like. What would be the best way to go about this?
I recently purchased and later returned a Dell Inspiron B120. For me, the screen was too small for the size of the machine which bothered me. I really didn't like the screen quality either.. Just today, I bought a Compaq V2000 but again, I called up OD and decided to cancel that order.
I'm...
Right now I'm running a PC Chips M860 which has been pretty stable and reliable. My first motherboard though was a MSI Neo 2 Platinum with the NV3 chipset.
I haven't had a lot of luck with the MSI boards. I'll be sending the second RMA'd board back. That'll make it 3 returns of the same...
My system specs:
MSI K8N Neo-FSR motherboard
Athlon 64 3000+ Socket 754
2-512mb Mushkin PC3200 RAM
eVGA Geforce 6800GT 256mb
Sound Blaster Audigy 2
About a month ago my mother board began to act up and wouldn't post. I did an RMA to MSI and got a replacement. The replacement...
I'm getting choppy playback with a Biostar M7VIW that I bought in September. This did not occur with an older Biostar M7MIA. Audio will be fine but there will be intermittent pauses in the video. This happens with all forms of video streaming off the HDD and does not occur with DVDs played off...
First, my current system specs:
Athlon 1.333Ghz
512Mb RAM
Biostar M7VIW
Radeon 8500
SB Audigy 2
I previously had a Biostar M7MIA in my system but somehow the BIOS became corrupted and I had to replace it. No hardware has changed except for the removal of a NIC as the replacement board has...
Can anyone give me an experienced opinion of both? Right now there is a $10 price difference between the two. The D-Link seems to get higher marks in the reviews that I've seen but the SMC Barricade features a SPI Firewall. The D-Link can be had for $20 after rebates at Best Buy. The SMC...
I bought an A-Trend ATC 6130 motherboard so I can build a relatively cheap computer for my sister. After putting a CPU and video card in, I can't get it to boot past the BIOS screen. I can't get into the bios setup either. I took a picture of it in case it helps here.
Anyone have a clue what...
I just recieved a Sony Trinitron 19" monitor for less than $200 bucks. It's a nice monitor but there is a tiny scartch on the left side of the screen. It's only about 1 1/2 millimeter long but I'm wondering if that's big enough that I should send back to the company, or small enough that I can...
I'm building a PC for my sister. I need a second monitor but figure I'll just give her my 17" CTX and get myself a larger 19" or 21" monitor since I use the PC more and tend to game on it.
I can afford a brand new 19"-21" monitor but it'll seriously hit me in the pocket and I'd likely have to...
On my desktop I have a folder that just won't go away. When I try to delete it, it says "Cannot delete file: Cannot read from the source file or disk." Before you say it's a bad sector, I've had it scanned by 3 different defrag utilities so it's not the HDD.
One thing that is unusuall is that...
I've been benchmarking my system and it seems to be slower than comparable systems. Though I initially thought it was my video card, I'm convinced now that it's either the CPU or memory. Both seem to be rather slow compared to other systems when using PCMark2002 as a benchmark.
Note that memory...
I've connected my Radeon 8500LE to my TV. It works ok although I notice there are lines of interference that go across the screen whenever I use the TV-Out. They go away when the monitor is off though.
Is there any way to fix this?
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