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    No video signal, or mobo beep, after replacement CPU install

    The fan on my buddy's heatsink failed without him realizing it a while back, and he ran it for about a month continuously before performance started getting worse and worse and he called me in. Apparently by then it was starting up with random error codes, most programs wouldn't open, and...
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    *UPDATE* (Added cliff notes up top) New Rig Works Fine for 5 Days; Now Keeps Restarting

    Bumping, edited original post with cliff notes up top explaining problems.
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    *UPDATE* (Added cliff notes up top) New Rig Works Fine for 5 Days; Now Keeps Restarting

    Think I isolated the problem, everything works fine just so long as a PCIe x16 video card isn't installed. Tried two different ones that are both working in my other comp and each resulted in freezing up the new rig. I'm assuming this means the problem is with the motherboard correct?
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    *UPDATE* (Added cliff notes up top) New Rig Works Fine for 5 Days; Now Keeps Restarting

    Thanks for the tip, I did this and it seems to be working OK. I took out my PCIe x16 7600GT, unplugged my DVD-RW and took out one stick of RAM. Does this narrow down what the problem might be?
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    *UPDATE* (Added cliff notes up top) New Rig Works Fine for 5 Days; Now Keeps Restarting

    I can get it open sometimes, it stays under 50C *EDIT: I even tried operating it with a box fan blowing right into the chassis, may have kept temps down a little, but didn't solve the problem
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    *UPDATE* (Added cliff notes up top) New Rig Works Fine for 5 Days; Now Keeps Restarting

    I just tried putting the Hard Drive from my new comp into my old one and booting off it and it froze while loading windows. Then I went to try and boot off a separate partition on the same drive, and it froze again. *EDIT: tried a different hard drive and it wouldn't install windows on this...
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    *UPDATE* (Added cliff notes up top) New Rig Works Fine for 5 Days; Now Keeps Restarting

    What's the best course of action to diagnose the problem? I can ... 1) order a new motherboard (I wouldn't mind ordering a different board because I was thinking of getting something that could run dual PCIe x16's anyway) 2) order new RAM 3) drive to best buy and buy a stick of RAM for...
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    *UPDATE* (Added cliff notes up top) New Rig Works Fine for 5 Days; Now Keeps Restarting

    Also, earlier I forgot to mention my video cards. I'm running a PCI nVidia MX420 VGA (no, i'm not kidding) as the primary and an nVidia 7600GT PCIe x16 to run other monitors.
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    *UPDATE* (Added cliff notes up top) New Rig Works Fine for 5 Days; Now Keeps Restarting

    Tried this, and neither stick worked alone in the DDRII 1 slot. *EDIT* They worked fine but the computer still restarted, this time before even getting to windows. Meanwhile the CPU is now idling at 49C at stock clock speeds, and the power supply I bought a year and a half ago and it worked...
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    *UPDATE* (Added cliff notes up top) New Rig Works Fine for 5 Days; Now Keeps Restarting

    Seasonic S12-600 Watt PSU WD Raptor 150GB Rosewill R5601-BK Case And a floppy and DVD-RW.
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    *UPDATE* (Added cliff notes up top) New Rig Works Fine for 5 Days; Now Keeps Restarting

    I started it up and went into BIOS. From a cold boot she went from 32C to 44C in less than 5 minutes. And for some reason the CPU fan started at 800RPM and only got up to about 1200RPM. I tried disabling Smart FAN but then the fan speed just idled at 1200RPM. Then I tried booting up and going...
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    *UPDATE* (Added cliff notes up top) New Rig Works Fine for 5 Days; Now Keeps Restarting

    Cliff notes: Comp worked fine for 5 days, then just started restarting a few minutes after boot. Comp was running a little hot, but well within limits. I tried three different hard drives to make sure it wasn't the HDD, but when installing a fresh install it blue-screened on all of them...
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    Semi-complicated series of multimonitor questions.

    LOL, long story short, I took my car there for a routine oil change. Oil change took longer than expected as they were training some new guy during the process. Next day, the oil light came on. Took it back and they said the oil filter they used was bad so they replaced it and topped me off...
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    Semi-complicated series of multimonitor questions.

    OK, here's the situation. I need three monitors, two to be run in portrait mode 1200x1600 and below them a primary monitor running in landscape 1280x1024. Currently I have a nVidia 7600 GT PCIe x16 dual DVI out running the portrait monitors and an nVidia MX 420 single VGA out running as my...
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    Adding another stick of RAM for Dual Channel?

    EDIT: poked around and found a thread that pretty much answered my question. It currently has one stick of 512MB DDR2 533. I can buy another stick for $24+shipping but I've never tried running dual channel RAM with two different sticks before. Would it be better just to pay $44 for two new...
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    New Build. Been a while.

    Thank you for pointing this out, I didn't notice there was an E6420, I just saw the E6400 and didn't want to sacrifice half of the cache.
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    New Build. Been a while.

    point taken.
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    New Build. Been a while.

    Amazon lists that LG H22 at $72 and lightscribe just seems unnecessary with the added price per disc. What about this LG? It writes dual layer discs at 10x, 25% faster than that other one, and is one of the things my friend who I'm building this comp for is looking for.
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    New Build. Been a while.

    ENERMAX Liberty ELT400AWT ATX12V 400W Power Supply Would something like this seem like a much more reliable choice?
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    New Build. Been a while.

    Edit: Other than using resource heavy poker-related programs this comp will be used for very basic things. Just want something stable that will be able to handle all the basics without lag. Pretty much went with a lot of things that were on sale. Will reuse old HDDs and PCIe x16 GeForce 6600...
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    Would 4 Drives in RAID 0+1 be noticeably faster than RAID 5?

    LOL, I admire your enthusiasm. OK, brass tacks: I have a 4th drive that is 500 GBs that I could use for backup, but I'm not entirely sure what the best root is for backing up important stuff. I'd like something as automated as possible, would syncing a folder from my RAID array to that other...
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    Would 4 Drives in RAID 0+1 be noticeably faster than RAID 5?

    Erm, you probably won't like this answer, but it's an onboard controller on my nF4 SLI-DR Expert mobo Would running a straight RAID 0 array with only two drives be faster than both? I currently have three drives setup in RAID 5, but I would like to get a little more speed and saw that a 4th...
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    Would 4 Drives in RAID 0+1 be noticeably faster than RAID 5?

    Topic pretty much explains the question. I am using Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD2500KS 250GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drives if that would make any difference.
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    Help with my disk array

    If I were going to go RAID5 i'd do it with much cheaper drives like these WD250's for almost 1/4th the price. Say I had three of those on a RAID5 array, then how would i optimally split them up? RAID5: XP, Progs, Important Storage Raptor: ??? Maybe Progs here instead, or would that be...
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    Help with my disk array

    haha, well I guess I don't much anymore, I have like 600 GB of downloaded Movies/TV although I'm dumping them sometime soon and going to DVD's as they don't look good on an HDTV. So I really don't need that much space.
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    Help with my disk array

    Okay let's go down the list, I have a 74gb Raptor 10k rpm 8mb cache a 200gb Maxtor, 8mb cache (ATA-133...if that matters) a 300gb Maxtor, SATA150 8mb cache (maybe 16 not entirely sure) and a 500 GB Hitachi, 16mb cache SATA300 my current set up is 74GB raptor: XP and programs 200GB...
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    Dual PCIE Graphics Card Help

    Blah, installed XP w/SP2 over it and still a no go, I'm gonna go ahead and order a new board and case tonight unless somebody has something else to add. Gotta do a little research to make sure the board I buy will work with it.
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    Dual PCIE Graphics Card Help

    Yea that didn't do anything, I think format/installing XP w/SP2 would be the only major difference maker as the manual states you need that at min. to utilize the Crossfire feature.
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    Dual PCIE Graphics Card Help

    Hmmmm, I'll give it a shot and let you know in a min, heh. They are exact same cards though so i dunno.
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    Dual PCIE Graphics Card Help

    I've actually installed both cards and have monnies 3+4 hooked up but the 2nd card is not being detected. Well I believe it's detected as PCI Input Device (or that's something else as I've not installed everything,) but when I try to install from the included cd it doesn't work. Also a dual...
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    Dual PCIE Graphics Card Help

    I bought an Asus A8R-MVP motherboard and two PCIe x16 in hopes of operating 4 monitors with them. Upon further review, the motherboard manual says that the board can either run two cards in Crossfire mode or one card and a non-vga card. Is there any way to get around this and get both cards...
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    Help getting an equation to excel

    Anyone know what function in Excel I have to use to write the equation, y*1.02^x=z? i have y and z already, so it would look like 2600*1.02^x=4200. Pretty sure I have to somehow get x alone on one side of the equal sign for it to be feasible, but remembering back to old math classes isn't...
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    Reccomendations for Component Cable?

    Running it from my Scientific Atlanta 8300HD digital cable box/DVR to my 23" Samsung LCD HDTV. Just want a very clear HDTV picture as the component cable the cable company gave me is not providing it. Willing to spend up or aroung $75-125.
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    How good a video card?

    Wondering how good of a video card I should get for DVI to HDTV (Through an HDMI converter) playback of DVD's and downloaded video (which are obviously compressed and not HDTV quality, so I'm not sure how much a difference it will make.) I bought a 6600GT already, but I need to buy another card...
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    Easiest to set up AMD X2 Board?

    No I have no plans to OC.
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    Easiest to set up AMD X2 Board?

    I've read hundreds of NewEgg reviews on X2 compatible boards, and all of them have at least a few people complaining they're impossible to setup or a major pain in the back. So in an effort to avoid a similar fate I'm going to ask it: "which is the easiest, least problematic board?" All I really...
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    AMD vs Intel Dual Core

    Apparently after me copy/pasting your responses he has repealed his statement saying that I didn't specify dual core when I was talking to him, heh, thanks anyway guys.
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    AMD vs Intel Dual Core

    A friend of mine said that if I had no intention of overclocking that a pentium was better than an AMD, just wondering what you good folks thought about it. I don't run a lot of highly demanding programs just several instances of several different programs simultaneously. Here's a rundown of...
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    Bluetooth CF Cards

    I'm looking to buy a Fujitsu P1510D http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16834110164 It's an ultra-compact convertible and doesn't even have a PCMIA card slot. I was wondering if I could buy a Bluetooth Compact Flash card and use it in my notebook. Something like this one that...
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    Dell Coupon Q's

    My bad, I just didn't know where to put it, thanks for the response.