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    replacing motherboard and videocard

    ya I have an athlon X2, I know that's gonna limit my games. But if I upgrade the video now, I can get the cpu when I get a bit more money in the summer. Thanks, both of those look like what I want. Thanks for the help.
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    replacing motherboard and videocard

    My motherboard needs replaced and I could use a video card upgrade, so I was wondering if I could get help deciding what to get. The motherboard I am just looking for one that will work with the same components as what I had: Gigabyte GA-M55SLI-S4...
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    Not getting any power

    Correct I am not overclocking anything. I have completely disconnected everything and put them back in and nothing has seemed to help so far. I guess I can try that again.
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    Not getting any power

    So my computer has been working fine for the last 2 years, but the other night when I went upstairs the monitor wasn't getting any signal. I turned it off and tried fixing the monitor cable and then replacing it, but this didn't help. So I turned it off again and figured I'd just work on it in...
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    Games crashing

    so if I got these and a CPU around the same caliber as the video card, what would be the top end of things I would be able to run? I would love to be able to do mass effect, but I figured I was pretty far off of that, but if I upgraded all of these, (video card, psu, cpu, ram) would I be able...
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    Games crashing

    I unplugged my cd roms and at least Team Fortress 2 is working, so I think it was the power supply. I still may upgrade the video card though, so if anyone has a suggestion for that i'd appreciate it. thanks for all the help oh and I have the latest drivers, thats one of the only things...
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    Games crashing

    I hadn't thought of that. I have a Rhino ATX12V RX400Y 400W I don't know if any of that matters other than the 400W but I figure it won't hurt. I couldn't find it on newegg, but I used their calculator and it said I would need about 377W. It seems like that could be a bit too close...
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    Games crashing

    My computer runs fine for the most part, but when I play Team Fortress 2 or Warhammer online I have been having trouble with them randomly crashing. Sometimes just the game crashes, sometimes the computers locks up, and sometimes it goes to desktop but with all the video settings and colors...
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    Can't connect to internet

    I did ipconfig /all on the good computer here, and it has everything filled in, but it says something about 'IP Routing Enabled...No.' Doing the ipconfig on the one that doesn't work comes up with a whole lot of wierd things like ffe$ type stuff, big long strings of that where IP address should...
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    Can't Connect to internet

    I recently had to get a new motherboard for my PC. It was working fine online with the old one before it broke, but when I put my new board in the internet at my house wouldn't work. I figured it was something I had to setup so I took the PC to school without much thought. The school network...
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    Can't connect to internet

    I recently had to get a new motherboard for my PC. It was working fine online with the old one before it broke, but when I put my new board in the internet at my house wouldn't work. I figured it was something I had to setup so I took the PC to school without much thought. The school network...
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    Computer wont boot

    but...the cpu isnt even in. It does the exact same thing with everything connected and nothing connected.
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    Computer wont boot

    Ya I tried that. I tried without that. I tried with the detatchable 24 pin thing connected, I tried with it disconected with only 20 pins. It just seems like the power butting is constantly being triggered, because it turns off in roughly the same time you would have to hold a power button to...
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    Computer wont boot

    Ok, it's still doing this even with the motherboard outside of the case with absolutely nothing connected to it. I took out the CPU, ram, videocard, Everything. I used two different power supplys, same thing. I tried each of these power supplys with my old motherboard and it doesn't do it...
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    Computer wont boot

    I just bought a new Mobo and CPU, and something is strange now. When I turn on my power supply, it powers on the computer, but only for about 2 or 3 seconds, not long enough to even try to load anything. I don't even have the power on/off wire connected and it does this. I tried switching it...
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    Harddrive question

    allright, thanks.
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    Harddrive question

    I was just wondering if I bought a new sata harddrive if I could still use my old IDE drive with it. I would imagine I could, but figured I would make sure before I get it. Thanks in advance.
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    Blank screen after BIOs

    I'm using Radeon 9600XT 128MB DDR AGP 4X/8X Video Card. I tried to switch the ram but I wasnt able to get the screen to ever come up to see if it changed the error.
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    Blank screen after BIOs

    It doesn't even come on at all. As soon as I hit the power the screen is just blank, as well as keyboard and mouse being off. The few times I have gotten it to show up all three of these come on, so I think it's a motherboard problem in general. When I do get it to come up it the boot screen...
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    Blank screen after BIOs

    I recently bought a new motherboard, and when I put it in my computer went to the post screen like normal. After setting it to 'Fail-safe defaults' it begins to restart, but the screen is blank. I can hear everything booting up, and the minitors cable disconect message doesn't come up, but I...
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    Computer resets itself

    So are you saying it could be either, or would the reboots be happening once it boots up if it was the CPU? I may have to go get a multimeter to check this out I guess, it would probably be good to have.
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    Computer resets itself

    My computer has been running fine for almost two years now, but when I brought it home from school it has started to reset itself while running. It usually does it before it even gets booted, sometimes on POST, sometimes on the windows load screen, and somtimes it turns on and does it after its...
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    Freazing during boot

    Well, i got it to boot consitantly now, and instead of freazing, it now simply resets itself. It does it every time I try to do anything. Any ideas what this is?
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    Freazing during boot

    My computer has been working fine for about a year now. When I brought it home I decided I was going to open it up and clean it up some. All I did was unconnect some parts and reconnected them, but now when I try to start it up it freazes up. It happens at different spots, sometimes nothing...
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    Monitor not getting signal

    I can't figure out any reason that the computer I built for my friend won't work right. I have tried three different video cards, one PSI and two AGP cards. Everything seems to be working fine internally, but the monitor just doesn't get any signal. I have put the monitor onto my computer and...
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    Computer Wont start

    Ok i figured it out. Well actually no i didnt, but it works now. My friend came up to help and tried to turn it on once and it just turned on first try. He didnt do anything at all, oh well it works.
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    Computer Wont start

    I dont think that is the problem. If it was stuck ON then why wouldnt the fans and stuff work when the connector is in the entire way? I really dont see how i could have possible messed up the 12 pin connector but I'm starting to think that that is the problem, either on the psu or motherboard...
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    Computer Wont start

    I got a new Thermaltake Black Gaming Tower XaserV Series WinGo Full-Tower Case, Model "V7000A" and now I cant seem to get it to start. Everything worked fine in my old case, it was just too crammed. The weirdest thing is that when im plugging the power into the motherboard, if I put the...
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    Reinstalling windows

    I have windows installed on the harddrive im using now, but im going to buy a new harddrive and a new copy of windows. It will just run windows from the new one right? I should be able to delete it off of the other harddrive. How exactly do you delete windows though? I dont want to clear the...
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    How can i make a form have a printable data page after being submitted.

    My friend made a big contract thing, and its pretty cool. Its written to his girlfriend while hes gone for the summer, and we want to find a way to put an editable version online. Is there some way to put text fields in for names, dates, etc. so that when you submit the form it gives the...
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    Why wont my computer load movies from the internet?

    Anytime i try to load a movie or sound from the internet, it will go to open and then the player just wont play it. I have to download it then play it. Anyone have any idea why it would do this? I cant open any sounds or videos which is a real pain.
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    My cd roms stopped working

    Both of them worked fine before, and now they still open but when i load a cd i get a fatal error. What would the problem be, the motherboard? Im almost positive they are still conected right.
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    Help getting firewire port to work right.

    Me and my friends are trying to make a movie with adobe premier, but we cant get the footage uploaded from the camera. We have an Ieee firewire cable hooked up to the camera but it tells us the device is not ready whenever we try to do anything. Is there something we have to setup, either on...
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    Weird problem when playing games.

    512mb ram, not overclocked. I dont want to turn things off to fix it, cuz thats not fixing it. Even if it works like that, it should work with the virus scan/AIM/music all on like it did before, and i never changed a thing in it. it just started to mess up and has been doing it more and more...
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    Weird problem when playing games.

    there isnt really anything in the background running, just the virus scan. But i used to be able to have AIM running with kazaa playing music at the same time as i played a game and it didnt lag a bit.
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    Weird problem when playing games.

    Ok my computer just recently started doing something really weird. When I am playing games, well its done it other times but mostly during games, it will just start to lag really really bad. The sound stops working right, it just skips really bad and i just hear weird sounds of what its...
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    what do these beeps mean?

    I opened my case to try and dust it off a little, all i did was blow on the fans really, and now it wont turn on. It doesnt show anything on the screen at all, and it makes 2 alternating beeps. It is award bios, and it doesnt say anything about this beep code, at least not that i could find...
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    My computer keeps lagging real bad

    ok i got the new drivers and it didnt do anything. it has happened before a while ago but only once or twice, it happens everytime i use it now. Could it be a bad part? I dont know how it would have just gotten so much worse unless somehow a part just went bad, which i guess could have...
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    My computer keeps lagging real bad

    It is a good computer, at least pretty good. DDRAM 512MB|64X64 PC-2700 CRUCIAL MB nFORCE2 EP-8RDA+ EPOX HD 80GB|WD 7200RPM 8MB CPU AMD|2400/266 ATHLON XP TBRED RT POWER SUPPLY|ANTEC SL350BLUE 350 R VGA ATIOEM|RADEON 9500PRO 128M it runs at about 115 ferenheit most of the time. i have 3...
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    My computer keeps lagging real bad

    All the time when im doing pretty much anything with sound my computer just suddenly starts to skip the sound real bad and run real slow. Its especially annoying during games when it does it. Could this be because of overheating? It hasnt always done it, it just started in the last few days...