New system - sense check required
Sun, 5 Oct 2008 21:04:25 +0100
Hello,
I'm about to order parts for a new system for a mate, could someone just
sense-check this and see if I've made any obvious flaws? It's been about
a year since I last built: (Dabs quicklinx codes in brackets)
Gigabyte MCP68s MATX board with oboard vga, lan, audio and Sata 2
(4XQTWS)
AMD Athlon 64 x2 ...
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Best cpu fan for intel Q9550
Sun, 5 Oct 2008 17:17:52 +0100
Hi
I am thinking of ugrading to a quad core cpu its an Intel Q9550 CPU 2.83 Ghz
1333fsb QUAD CORE and I will be using the asus PK5 premium motherboard.
I would like to know what would be the best CPU fan for me to use
Thank for any help from Tim
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I needed to replace my HDD on my 4 year old Packard Bell (PB) A7145 ........
Sun, 05 Oct 2008 15:54:56 +0100
Hi,
I needed to replace my HDD on my 4 year old Packard Bell (PB) A7145
laptop. As readers may know PB laptops don't come with Windows XP
installation disks but rely on the use of restore disks & a restore
partition on the HDD. I no longer have the restore partition so
thought that I only needed to reinstall Wind ...
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OEM XP Version Not accepting Key
Sun, 5 Oct 2008 10:03:22 +0100
Got a bit of a problem that I hope someone can shed sum light on for me
please.
I have helped friends out on several occassions by using a Win XP OEM disc
and using their Windows Key when reformatting and reinstalling XP.
I got another PC to do yesterday and all was going well until it asked for
the key. ' ...
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New build temperature
Sun, 5 Oct 2008 09:44:06 +0100
I've just built a new PC with a Core 2 Duo E8400 (3GHz) processor. It's a
45nm chip and I was expected temps idling in the low to mid 30s and maybe
rising to 50 under load. Instead it's idling at 44 and rose to 61 running
Prime 95 torture test.
Should I be concerned about this? The max temp for this CPU is 72 ...
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How to overcome memory overload?
Sat, 04 Oct 2008 03:11:51 -0500
Approx 2 years ago I bought an IBM M52 ThinkCentre desktop
PC running Windows XP and Office 2003.
Lately it has been running very slowly with a lot of disk
thrashing. The problem seems to be a lack of memory. It
has 512Mb installed and Windows Task Manager shows 613Mb
in use. I think that gradually some of ...
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Vista woes
Fri, 3 Oct 2008 10:55:31 +0100
I have a Dell 1520 running Vista that decided this morning it would boot OK
but would not runmail or access the internet via ie. A reboot has led to the
system throwing up an error from LogonUI - unable to find shlwapi.dll. I've
tried the repair options from the vista disc but still get the same problem.
Surp ...
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PC temperatures and sisoft Sandra
Wed, 1 Oct 2008 23:40:06 +0100
This pc keeps shutting itself down. POST (on reboot) screen says it has
overheated.
I don't have exact specs here but it a core duo gadget, 580W psu with
associated fans, 2 case fans. Can provide better detail if req'd.
SETI running 24/7 also ZA and AVG free versions.
Sandra shows cpu temp @ 26deg and board tem ...
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Single Mouse click.
Wed, 1 Oct 2008 22:12:37 +0100
Hi Guys,
I originally set my Vista Business machine to single click things (to act
like it was a double click) but I can't now find where I changed this
setting.
Can anyone help me, please.
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Compaq dc 7100 SFF taking the lid off
Wed, 1 Oct 2008 09:59:35 -0700 (PDT)
Hello all... I have been given one of the above machines which is
about 7 years old... Can anyone tell me the correct way to remove the
case panels?
I don't want to do any damage by forcing with screwdrivers etc. but I
just cannot see how one gets into this machine ;-( ...
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