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    Need help diagnosing PC problem

    This thing is really confusing me. So it ran just fine the other night when I had one stick of RAM in it, as I reported in the previous post. Was planning on swapping the RAM sticks and repeating the test last night - but before I did I booted into windows to check my e-mail. I changed...
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    Need help diagnosing PC problem

    Last night I tore the whole thing down again and rebuilt it. This time I installed the 2 RAM sticks in the other 2 slots on the board that I never used before (4 slots on board). Upon boot up, no sound, and it was freezing everywhere (not just in media player). I had to forcibly shut down...
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    Need help diagnosing PC problem

    Thanks for the response, montag451. My first stab at this was exactly what you suggested. I disassembled everything and put it back together. Everything worked fine after that for a while (5 days or so of light use), then my problems came back. Then I: Replaced the PSU (no effect)...
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    Need help diagnosing PC problem

    I could use some help diagnosing my PC problem. It?s a PC that I built in late ?05, which worked fine until the past few months. Most of the time my sound does not work (Soundblaster is on-board the mobo). When playing a video in Windows media player, the video will play fine for several...
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    please help get XP installed on new rig

    Well I have two plots inside my "CPU usage history" so I guess both cores are recognized in XP Home with SP2. I took a screen dump to show this, but I don't know how to post images in this forum. Thanks for the help guys, Kurt
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    please help get XP installed on new rig

    I discovered I had the polarity reversed on my speaker connection. XP home installed after that with no problems. How can I tell if XP home is/is not recognizing and using both cores of my X2 processor? When in XP home, if I press windows key+pause to get the system properties, it correctly...
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    please help get XP installed on new rig

    Wow thanks, I had never heard that before. $92 well spent. :disgust: Anything else look fishy in my setup? I'd like to know what the heck I can do to get things rolling. This is emasculating.
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    please help get XP installed on new rig

    I just assembled a new rig and can't get the XP installation to start without giving me errors. Here is my setup: MSI K8N Neo 4 Platinum SLI mobo AMD Athlon 64 X2 toledo 4400+ Gigaram mach 1000 2x1GB PC3200 unbuffered 184-pin SDRAM DIMMS eVGA 7800GTX KO PCI-e Plextor PX-716A/SW DVD+RW...
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    Help choose memory for new system

    Hello all: I?d like to build a new PC system in the near future so I?ve been reading up on Anandtech lately ? I?ve been out of the loop for a LONG time. Even after all the reading, there are still several things I am not sure about, and hope you can advise me. This will be a home PC...