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How much technical skill do you have? It can be difficult to fix. If you're not incredibly savvy with the repair console, I'd do the following: 1. Put your IDE drive back in and boot the OS back up. 2. Go to the MB manufacturer and get the appropriate SATA driver. You should be able...

This is from a fresh install on a formatted drive? Is this without ANY web browsing activity afterwards? There are two main ways that the PC is getting re-infected: 1. It is a virus that spreads via LAN-type means and is getting attacked by another computer on the LAN that is still...

Agreed. Buy one of the lower C2D processors (such as the 6300, can't beat the price) and compliment it with a nice GPU. Then tuck the money away that you saved, for when the quad core processors come down to affordable prices.

I agree with the 6400 as well. I just bought one and the performance is incredible. Even against that AMD processor, would he even need to overclock it to compete with it? It should run faster (for less money) right out of the box I think.

Ubuntuforums.org is a great forum and they'll be able to get you to where you want to go. That being said, here is some beginning advice: During install there is an option to have it take up a certain percentage of your disk drive. There is a slider to determine how much free space it...

Can't help with your initial questions, it only made me come up with two more: 1. Are you sure you want to install this into such a small case? A lot of people recommend against it due to limited space/cooling. If it were just an office PC, I'd risk it, but if you want to put that 7900 in...

Three quick things to check: 1. Double-check the power connectors going into the motherboard. Then, check your power switch on the back of the supply if it has one. When I built my system last week, I bumped the PS switch by accident. It stumped me for a couple minutes. It's likely not...

Broke down and bought local, but I did ok! Went to a local PC shop and talked the guy down a bit. Here is what I picked up: Asus P5L-MX Motherboard Intel Core 2 Duo 6400 Processor Mid-tower case (brand unknown) with a Raidmax 420w PS (I know I know but it's temporary) I discussed...

Fun topic... My first was a 386-25dx with 2mb of ram. Then I wanted to play Doom but the ram was maxed out so I bought a mb/chip/mem upgrade that upped it to a 486-25sx w/4mb of ram I believe. Then I had a 486-66, then I think my next one was a Cyrix-133 (man I remember thinking that it was...

Thanks for the tips. Yeah I read that review too, but once I build a system I tend to leave them alone so I sort of past over that. The more I've been researching, the more I'm considering buying a motherboard where I could pop in a 3.2ghz P4 chip for now and then a duo core 2 6300 or up...

I was looking at the Shuttle cases such as what you suggested, and the MicroFly MicroATX tower (link below). The MicroFly has an 80mm fan up front, 120mm in the back and also accepts full-size power supplies (comes with a standard 400w)...

Ad-aware and spybot are both good free programs. Try those first. If they don't work, you can use the more powerful tools like hijackthis. Hijackthis has it's own forum where you can do the scan, post your results, and people will help to isolate the problem. Oh, regarding the ram, 512 is...

Well my major goal is to get into the duo core 2, mainly the 6300 and up. I know I could have cheaper, but that is my goal. I wondered about the small cases too, but then I see more and more people (even gamers and home theater people that stick them in confined spaces) using them and saying...

Ahhh, you're right, didn't catch that the memory was a single stick. All of my prices were from Tiger. The reason I mentioned the PCChips was because of this bundle: http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=2755471&CatId=0 Seemed pretty smart that I...

Trying to break into the Intel Core 2 Duo without breaking my wallet. Would appreciate any help you could give towards mixing/matching my system. I'm trying to build a work-spec system with the following goals: 1. Break into the Intel Core 2 Duo world. 2. Assemble the system into a micro...