Home Built PC

Vista no input signal problem
Hi all, The beta Vista worked on my machine with XP in the past. However, I got no Vista no input signal problem. What a OS? CPU Dual->3.2 Memory->2G M.B.->GA-8I945g-p Video Card-> MSI Nx6600GT H.D->SATA DVD burner -> IDE 0 slave IDE H.D-> IDE 0 master Does anyone has any similar problem? What I n... 20 Dec 2006 19:29

CPU Internal Core Speed
My PC is 5� years old. It's a barebones model with an EliteGroup P6SET-ML motherboard with onboard audio and video and 32 KB primary memory cache and 128 KB secondary memory cache. The CPU/SDRAM bus frequency is 66/66 MHz. It has a 500 MHz PPGA (socket 370) Celeron processor. I've been looking at different thing... 4 Jan 2007 19:24

Delayed write failure
I built a computer, has an internal 320 gig Western Digital Caviar just for storage. It's partitioned into 3 chunks, one 150 gig, a 100, and a 50; and I have Windows on a seperate Raptor 10k RPM SATA. When there's too much going on with the drive, too many processes going, writing to, removing, basically any kind ... 18 Dec 2006 12:37

Delayed write failure
I built a computer, has an internal 320 gig Western Digital Caviar just for storage. It's partitioned into 3 chunks, one 150 gig, a 100, and a 50; and I have Windows on a seperate Raptor 10k RPM SATA. When there's too much going on with the drive, too many processes going, writing to, removing, basically any kind ... 15 Dec 2006 11:37

Newly Built Computer Won't Stay On
I just built a new computer, and when I turn it on, it turns off in about 4 seconds. I hear a longish beep, and all 4 fans in the system are turning before the whole thing shuts down. There is no time for anything to show up on the monitor. The system is as follows: CASE - COOMAS|CAC-T05-UB BLK/BL RT PSU -... 21 Dec 2006 02:01

Upgrading to Core 2 Duo/ Motherboard/RAM question
I need to setup a second computer for work that will be used to run Vista, so instead of buying all new parts I was going to essentially upgrade my existing machine to the Core 2 Duo E6600 for Vista and then using the parts from my existing machine (Athlon X2 3800) and a few other left over parts from an older mach... 14 Dec 2006 14:41

To ECC Or Not To ECC......
What is better: DDR2-800 CL5 ECC, or DDR2-800 CL4 Non-ECC? This is for an engineering workstation, but memory speed is an issue, too. We will be writing software that passes many large images directly into RAM, and then analyze the large amounts of data (gigabytes) while in RAM. I guess I am asking, is it wor... 14 Dec 2006 04:09

DVD burning problem
I have a Samsung TS-H522U Writemaster 16X DVD burner and just got a new Gateway computer system that I had installed this into and set the drive on cable select on the same cable as the current DVD/CDRW drive that came with the system. The problem I have is that I can only burn DVD-R media at 4X and not at 12X as the ... 14 Dec 2006 22:58

Windows XP Hard Drive Continuously Running
I built a new rig with an E6400/ECS P965-A/1GB RAM/SATA(3GB) WD Caviar Drive. Dual boot with Windows 2000 and XP on it. When I installed XP I noticed that the hard drive was continuously running, this is even before I installed the drivers for the network card, so unless there's a virus on the XP install(ple... 11 Dec 2006 16:39

Cannot defrag C: drive....
Its WinXP SP2. There is a very high amount of fragmentation on C: drive. When I try to defrag with Windows defragger or a third party defragger, it says that it cannot, as there errors on the drive. It says that a scan is scheduled for the next time Windows reboots. However, when I reboot Windows, scandisk does N... 12 Dec 2006 12:54