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    Help: Bad Motherboard?

    Hey everyone. Thank you so much for all the tips. After trying a different power supply and brand new motherboard i have limited the problem down to both of the graphics cards i tested with being damaged. Co worker will be bringing me a different card to test on wednesday. It appears that...
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    Help: Bad Motherboard?

    Thank you for the reply. I will have to see if i can scrounge up a PSU from a friend to test. I am currently not overclocked so the RM1000x is overkill. Picked it up on BF for a great price so figured why not. Update: Decided i should pay a bit more attention to the Dr Debug post codes. On...
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    Help: Bad Motherboard?

    Just doing a sanity check before i rip out this mobo and rebuild tomorrow. Last week my PC locked up, red and purple vertical bars on the screen. When i rebooted the GPU fans were at full speed and i had no video. Powercyling a couple of times got it back to running like normal. However, last...
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    Installed my 4850hd last night, huge problem

    Probably, i am still new to overclocking but i believe i ran into a wall with 500w. Right now i am running at 3.2GHz and the card is at 690/1100. Seems like if i go above 3.2 i start to experience random crashes.
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    Installed my 4850hd last night, huge problem

    I am running a 500w OCZ like that one on a e7200 and 4850. Runs pretty stable with a little bit of room to overclock.
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    ATI 4850 TEMPERATURE discussion

    Got my parts in last night and assembled everything. With an 80mm exhaust on the side of the case i was getting 71C idle and 80+ Load. Installed a Zalman VF-1000 and overclocked to 690/1100. Idle the card is at 38C and jumps to 50C under load. I am on the fence about using radeon bios editor...
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    ATI 4850 TEMPERATURE discussion

    I think GDDR5 is going to give the 4870 an edge overclocking or not. However with some RivaTuner support i am crossing my fingers the 4850 will start OC'ing much better.
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    ATI 4850 TEMPERATURE discussion

    I haven't received my 4850 yet but i ordered a Zalman VF1000 along with it in case. There is a thread over on hardforums (http://www.hardforum.com/showt...58&highlight=accelero) that shows an Accelero dropping it from 73 to 32 idle and and 88 to 39 load. Don't know the other circumstances of...
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    Another Build

    Swapped out for the MSI 4850 and placed the order. Thanks for the input everyone, improved my build quite a bit for a little bit of cash.
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    PUT A FORK IN IT!: VisionTek 4850 $149 + tax BB YMMV

    on my way to check my local BB lol
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    Another Build

    Great, i didnt think they would be available with rebates so early. I am still pretty amazed with what can be had for 700 bucks these days.
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    Another Build

    I think its finally settled. With the GTS and overclocking i should be able to get close to 40fps on high. I built my dad a pretty standard E8400 4gig 800GTS system and it runs around there without any tweaking.
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    Another Build

    Umm erm yeah.... oh yeah i get a vista ultimate upgrade from my school for $10.
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    Another Build

    Changed out the ram for 4gigs of DDR 800. Storage is not much of an issue since i keep most of my media on an external drive. Thanks for the suggestion, memory was the only piece i was really undecided on besides the PSU.
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    Another Build

    This is going to be used primarily for Age of Conan on a 21 inch 1680x1050 LCD. I'd like to keep it under the $700 mark after rebates and all. I also plan to do a healthy bit of overclocking. CPU - E7200 http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16819115052 $129.99 Mobo- DFI LANPARTY...
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    Graphics Card overheating?

    Welp, hard drive is squaking and clicking plus will not let me install window. goodbye 10 gigs of music.
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    Graphics Card overheating?

    Well, i do not think it is a hardware problem anymore. I can run in safe mode with no problems. I tried to reinstall windows but got several .sys errors. Any suggestions there?
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    Graphics Card overheating?

    Thanks, i ran with the case open and it did not make a difference. I will try to reinstall the cpu.
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    Graphics Card overheating?

    I recently rebuilt my PC into an Antec Aria micro atx case. Gigabyte K8 Triton AMD 64 3000+ 1g giel pc400 Radeon 9800 Pro Windows XP SP1 Since the rebuild if have been getting random loss of display. The computer does not reboot, it just locks up and i lose display. I let it run...
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    Internet Explorer not working

    A few days ago i installed Opera. It worked fine for two days then all the sudden non of my explorers will work. Firefox, IE, or Opera. i can use AIM and e-mail fine. Just not browse the internet. Any ideas?
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    Trouble connecting to network at apartment complex

    They came back in fixed it. It turns out that each unit is on a shared cable modem connection. He just reset the switch and modem and it worked.
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    Trouble connecting to network at apartment complex

    We werent given any instructions to connect. My room mats plugged their computers in and they worked fine. Of course, they have been living in the dorms for a year so there may be some setting that i am missing. The ip address i get goes as follows: Autoconfiguration IP Address...
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    Trouble connecting to network at apartment complex

    I move into my new apartment last week to find out my network access in my room is not working. For now i am on my room mate's wireless. I sent in a request and the tech that came to fix it just elft a note telling me to run ipconfig. The only problem i see from this is that my LAN connection...
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    Problem Re-flashing bios.

    Ok, so i put the new bios and awdflash.exe on a disk and booted int eh command prompt. In the A directory i typed awdflash VN120A19.BIN it then goes to what appears to be the awdflash screen and just freezes again. I am beginning to think this mobo is just Fubar.
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    Problem Re-flashing bios.

    No dice from their site. The only instructions say to put the extracted file on the disk then reboot to reflash.
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    Problem Re-flashing bios.

    While attmepting to reflash the BIOS on my Chaintech VNF3-250 i keep getting stuck at one point. I downloaded the bios and extracted it to a floppy. When the computer is booting i press Alt+F2 to start the reflash. It just says "Decompress "AWDFLASH.EXE" from BIOS, Please wait ..." and...
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    USB ports getting power, but devices are not working with them.

    Bump? No one knows what is going on?
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    USB ports getting power, but devices are not working with them.

    Some time ago the USB ports on my Chaintech VNF3-250 stopped working. I do not recall changing anything on the computer when this happened. I have re-installed windows and played with any bios setting i can find. I checked the device manager and it does not show any errors for the USB ports...
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    Cant get rebuilt computer to boot.

    The 4 pin connector is what i needed. Thanks for the help
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    Cant get rebuilt computer to boot.

    I recently rebuilt my computer with an Athlon 64 3000+, Radeon 9800pro, 512mb of Giel pc3200, and a Chaintech VNF3-250. Everything has power when i turn it on i just do not get any response from the monitor. I also do not get any tones from the case speakers. Any common problems that i can fix?