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  1. sokol

    suggest a sound card

    It depends on the speakers u are using is it 5.1, 7.1, 2.0. If you are using 2.1 I think the onboard audio will do fine.Make sure your mobo has onboard audio if it does just need to go to bios and enable them there and install the drivers. Hope this helps. I have the Creative Fatality X-fi...
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    cpu cooling issues, idle temp about 58c

    It could be the mobo is bad. Check ur mobo. Check ur cpu cooler.
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    Correct Size For Power Supply [New To Forum]

    Nice choice of video card I have the same but SC from EvGA. As for the powersupplies I wouldn't buy those since they are 450watt I would go with 550watt to 650watt. If your gonna go sli in the future you the 450 will be to small. I currently bought this psu for my new build and it comes with...
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    silent case

    Hi nice I see you have the intel e8400 I just build my new system with the same cpu. I see you are trying to make it quiet well my pc is soo quiet I forget if its on or not LOL, I am using a Asus V-60 92mm Vapo bearing Cpu cooler here is the link if you are interested in it...
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    problem with pc

    First of all this was my friend's pc I was trying to fix. There were couple problems the battery was dead on the motherboard, ram he had 2 different types of ram running at different speeds for some reason and I had to manually change the settings, its strange when I put it to auto so the...
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    problem with pc

    Problem fixed. :)
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    problem with pc

    Anyone know what the problem is
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    problem with pc

    ok it read the hd and the optical drive now but when everything loads the bios verion etc and try to load windows I get black screen with a flash - on top left hand corner. Anyone know what this is.
  9. sokol

    problem with pc

    Ok I bought a new battery plugged put everything windows started, I turned off plugged my second hd to it and now Im its not reading none of my hard drives even the one that works minutes ago I get Disk Boot failure, Insert System Disk and Press Enter. Even my optical drive doesnt work now.
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    problem with pc

    K I checked again yesterday and I got checksum error meaning battery on motherboard is bad, will be getting one as I speak of I will post if this works. It sees the HD and the dvd/cd drive now. Just the checksum error, plus I didn't do any BIOS changes so it has to be the battery. I will post...
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    problem with pc

    I know I will get on tomorrow, but now I booted I reads the primary when I boot up I get black screen energy written and model of motherboard and etc it has the primary master written but on the bottom in white coloring it says Warning!! Some changes to the chipset or clock settings caused boot...
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    problem with pc

    I took out the battery and but it back in and I went to bios and loaded the optimized settings and it booted and this is what I get black screen with infor cpu id cpu clock etc then I got to the second bar with information and it says diskette drive a 1.44m 3.5" which is wierd cause its not even...
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    problem with pc

    I am running amd athlon 1.7 socket a with a gigabyte ga 7vm400afa motherboard the problem is when I start my pc i get black screen with energy written on it and in white it says Warning Some changes in the chipset or clock settings caused boot failure, Defaults for these settings have been...
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    Help with pc

    Actually my friend doesn't know what is going on with his computer. First his motherboard was overheating and went bad so he bought a new motherboard, and his CPU went dead so he got a new CPU. He plugged everything in turned it on and he gets a blue screen with errors with the pc restarts. He...
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    Friends's PC Problem

    My friend is having a problem with his pc, he has a old pc but he will be looking to upgrade soon but for now he uses the old pc, the problem he is having is hes getting a error saying something with chipset and his cpu is old its a amd athlon 1.7 ghz his motherboard is works great. Anyone know...
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    PC Build Help with Spec #2

    Thanks guys for your input on this matter one thing tho isn't the 9600gt faster than the 8800gt.
  17. sokol

    PC Build Help with Spec #2

    Case- Raidmax Smilodon Extreme Black Atx Mid - $74.99 CPU - Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 Wolfdale 3.16ghz $269.99 MB - Gigabyte GA-P35 LGA 775 - $109.99 Ram - Muskin 4gb DDR2 1066 PC2 8500 - $139.99 Power Supply - Xigmatek MC NRP MC751 750W - $129.99 VGA- BFG Tech Geforce 9600GT 512mb - $179.99...
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    PCI card help!

    You can get a good pc for like $1000 that will last you for 1-2 years if something wicked comes out then u can upgrade. Intel Core 2 Duo Nvidia 8700 or 8800 gt or gts MSI, ASUS motherboard. Just look at newegg.com or tigerdirect. I know they even sell combos motherboard and cpu in a...
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    PCI card help!

    Get a new cpu and motherboard check newegg.com for prices.
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    1500$ laptop suggestions

    What are you gonna use the laptop for if gaming $1500 is a waste of money for a gaming laptop cause cause it wont full some of the games coming out now, thats if you will be playing on max which I don't think is necessary on a laptop. If you are gonna be using it for school get a HP laptop or...
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