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    Need second opinions on troubleshooting

    thanks for looking. I have a system here with the following ASUS M2NBP-VM CSM motherboard. Antec power supply. 2gigs of ram. 2 x SATA hard drives 1 x PATA hard drive 1 x PATA DVD-RW When i press the power button on the front of the system the system turns on for a second then...
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    BUDGET AMD SYSTEMS

    building a computer for my uncle. just basic office applications, surfing.. which one of the two builds do you like better or what would you change? (prices are canadian by the way.. in case they look off to you americans ;) ) BUILD 1 PROCESSOR AMD Sempron 2800+ S754 64-Bit Processor...
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    Case with 120MM fans and no door in the front

    I'm looking for a new mid tower case with 120mm fan in the front and preferably in the rear also. So far I've only found ones with a door over the drives (which i DONT want) or ones with 80mm fans. Anyone have any suggestions? thanks!
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    Which game should I play next.

    Help me decide which game to get next.
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    Best Buy Employees

    just curious what the employee discount at best buy is.. any best buy employees around or anyone know? thanks
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    Pioneer DVR-108 - need some thoughts

    Ok so i have the DVR-108. Drive worked fine for about 4 months. Now when i put a blank DVD in the drive it makes some weird noises like its having trouble reading the disc then if i'm in dvd decrypter is says "incompatible medium installed" this of course comes up no matter what kind of blank...
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    POLL: Do you like the look of a clear acrylic case?

    Curious what everyones views are on this.
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    Running ram in Dual Channel vs Single Channel

    does anyone have any links to tests done to show the difference with using dual channel over single channel in general or with the athlon 64? thanks
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    Athlon 64 3000+ 939 + MSI K8N Neo 2 Plat

    this is the error i get in prime95 [Mon Jan 03 05:15:06 2005] FATAL ERROR: Rounding was 0.5, expected less than 0.4 Hardware failure detected, consult stress.txt file. [Mon Jan 03 18:44:18 2005] FATAL ERROR: Rounding was 0.5, expected less than 0.4 Hardware failure detected, consult...
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    Error running Prime95 and memtest

    i get the following error while running Prime95 torture test - BLEND. i also get errors on test 6 of memtest system is athlon 64 3000+ 939 MSI K8N Neo 2 Plat OCZ DDR PC-3200 Premier Dual Channel 2x512MB (which is on the MSI k8n neo 2 approved ram list) radeon 9800 pro this is the...
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    Hard Drives showing up as removable

    just installed windows xp on my MSI K8N Neo 2 and my 160GB SATA drive is under HARD DRIVES in the device manager but in the system tray i have the "safely remove hardware" icon and it shows the hard drive.. is this normal on this board? or did i miss a setting in the bios or something
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    How can you find out if your ram is single or double sided?

    i have the following ram and i'm trying to find out if its single or double sided.. anyway to tell?/ http://www.ocztechnology.com/p...l_ddr_pc_3200_platinum thanks!
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    What would be the most beneficial

    i currently have mobile ahtlon xp 2500+ clocked to 2.3GHZ abit NF7-S motherboard 512 MB (2x256) OCZ PC-3200 Ati Radeon 9800 pro 128MB 17" CRT i mostly game on my pc and have about $430 CANADIAN to upgrade with and i would like to get some thoughts on what you guys think would be the...
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    Worth Upgrading?

    I current have an Athlon XP-M 2500 oc'ed to 2.3GHZ , Radeon 9800 pro and 512MB of OCZ ram. Do you think upgrading to an 939 Athlon 64 3000+ or 3200+ and Nforce 3 motherboard would give me a nice increase in gaming or should i wait till something newer comes out?
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    Asus P5GD1

    wondering if anyone who has this motherboard has it powered with a 20pin power supply. the manual says it supports a 20pin power supply. can anyone confirm this motherboard works ok with a 20 pin power supply.. thanks!!
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    Power Supply

    building a pc for my boss and need to know if the Antec True Power 380W will be enough to power the following P4 3.2G S775 Asus P5GD1 S775 915P PCI-E DDR Motherboard 1GIG of RAM CD-RW DVD-+R/W Floppy ATI Sapphire Radeon X600 PRO PCI-E 128MB 2 x 120GB SATA drives would the 380W...
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    RAM reccomendations for K8T Neo-FIS2R

    Hey guys. I need some reccomendations for RAM for the K8T Neo-FIS2R. Should i get just one stick or go dual channel? i know the Athlon 64 doesnt support dual channel so would one stick be better then dual sticks or vice versa? I'm prob looking at 512MB right now. Any help or reccomendations...