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urgent - please help with new computer

allright everything is working perfectly now i believe. i built this computer for a pretty respected lawyer in my city so ive been nervous as heck while building it. i kept the hold wd 80gig hard drive and im gunna see if i can fix it for myslelf. maybe i'll be able to piece together another...
- Brade
- Post #11
- Sep 18, 2001
- Forum: Computer Building
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urgent - please help with new computer

well i went out and bought another wd 80giger and everything works fine...i guess i just had a bum hard drive :(
- Brade
- Post #7
- Sep 18, 2001
- Forum: Computer Building
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urgent - please help with new computer

ok you guys were right about the motherboard. once i tried to run it out of the case it ran fine. ok so next i plugged in all the drives and tried to start it up. now the epox mobo is giving me boot error 75. and also it didnt detect any ide devices, not even the floppy drive. of course...
- Brade
- Post #6
- Sep 18, 2001
- Forum: Computer Building
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urgent - please help with new computer

allright i'll try removing the mobo from the case. so i gather from what you 2 have said that if it is shorted out right now that its not ruined perminantly?
- Brade
- Post #4
- Sep 18, 2001
- Forum: Computer Building
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urgent - please help with new computer

ok ive put together a new computer using but when i press the power button nothing happens :0( these are the parts ive used: epox 8k7a, 1.4ghz tbird 266fsb, 128mb kingston ddr 2100, geforce 2 mx, 80gig hd, soudblaster live value, 16x dvd. i have the power switch jumpers connected but when i...
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- Sep 18, 2001
- Replies: 10
- Forum: Computer Building
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DVD problem

well i switched to windvd and everything seems to be working just fine. i still dont have any idea why powerdvd didnt work but, oh well, im just pissed i spent money to download that program.
- Brade
- Post #6
- Sep 8, 2001
- Forum: Computer Building
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DVD problem

boy i wish it was that simple...im using powerdvd. i bought it from the cyberlink web page. i have version 3.0. the thing that really gets me is that sometimes the system will freeze after 2 or 3 minutes, other times i can watch a movie for about 30 - 45 minutes. but, eventually it will...
- Brade
- Post #5
- Sep 8, 2001
- Forum: Computer Building
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DVD problem

dang i really hope its not the dvd cuz i dont want to have to buy a new one
- Brade
- Post #3
- Sep 8, 2001
- Forum: Computer Building
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DVD problem

ok i dont watch dvd's on my computer very much but when i do my system allways freezes after about 10 min or so and theres a high pitch beeping sound. ive ruled out overheating cuz as soon as i reboot the computer i check the temp in the bios and its only at 47c. and besides i can do anything...
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- Sep 8, 2001
- Replies: 6
- Forum: Computer Building
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my system with pics

yeah bumboy i was gunna point out the same thing. my 1.2 is at 1.46 and its at 48c. i dont really know much about that heatsink fan combo he's using but i guess its targeted towards noise more so then cooling.
- Brade
- Post #19
- Aug 22, 2001
- Forum: Computer Building
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Recommend an upgrade for me

i would say just upgrade your mobo and cpu cuz your graphics card should still do you go for a little while longer. i used to have the same card running with a athlon slot A 700mhz and i was able to play any game at decent resolutions. but if you really want a gfc card upgrade i agree with a...
- Brade
- Post #5
- Aug 12, 2001
- Forum: Computer Building
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Any one else using a ka266 mobo?

hmm mine seems to be running pretty stable... but im still thinking about switching to a via motherboard of some sort. i hear the epox boards are really good
- Brade
- Post #3
- Aug 7, 2001
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Any one else using a ka266 mobo?

I just built a new DDR rig with this motherboard and i was just wondering if anyone else out there is running a system with one, and what your performace/thoughts are? it seems to me that the performace compared to some of the other DDR mobo's out there is a bit lacking. the boards using the...
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- Aug 7, 2001
- Replies: 2
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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quake 3 timedemo scores

ok the other day i read the review for the new pentium 3 1.2ghz chip and they have some quake 3 timedemo scores in there. i noticed that the fps for the 1.2ghz tbird they used for comparison was alot higher then my tbird 1.2 was scoring. so i ran some more timedemos to make sure. the scores...
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- Thread
- Jul 31, 2001
- Replies: 0
- Forum: Computer Building
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help me out again guys

ive tried that....this is really stumpin me guys i have no idea why the drives remain in windows even when the drive is not in the computer??
- Brade
- Post #5
- Jul 18, 2001
- Forum: Operating Systems

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