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Why do NVIDIA Drivers use 850MB of disk space? FWIW. Might have had something to do with having deleted the C: \NVIDIA folder. ... 5 Feb 2010 19:32
when you first got broadband how fast was it and how much did you pay? Realized it's been just about ten years since I first got broadband service. Back then I paid paid $55 a month for 128kb/s up, 512kb/s down. These days I pay $35 for 1,500kb/s up, 12,000kb/s down. ... 13 Feb 2010 23:47
Two questions about my homebuilt thingy I've just assembled my first pc from a bundle I bought and some innards from my last base unit. I wanted to ask about the fan, it's currently installed on the left side of the case, blowing directly over the CPU which has its own fan. Do I really need this case fan? I'm not a gamer, and the pc isn't very tricked-... 6 Feb 2010 10:44
Booting with a Thumbdrive plugged in? Anyone know why my XP machine would boot slowly when I have an old 256mb thumbdrive plugged into the USB port? I don't understand what the issue is. The thumbdrive is nearly empty and has been formatted to FAT.It works just fine when I plug it into the PC after it has booted. ... 4 Feb 2010 13:24
Printer being seen as a mass storage device I recently bought and installed an Epson Artisan 810 printer via USB cable to my box: Asus P6T MB, Bios 0904. The BIOS is reading the printer as a mass storage device. When I boot into Windows, the printer is using a disk drive 'slot'. It shows up in Device Manager under "Portable Devices" and named K: (Last av... 4 Feb 2010 15:40
More on my "exploded" Antec TruePower New 650W TP-650 uses modular cable management. But I didn't use any one of them. I only used the default set of cables coming directly out of the unit. In one rail of 4-pin molex connectors, I connected the following: 1. ThermalTake DuOrb VGA cooler (2 fans with 6 blue LED) 2. One 80mm case fan 3. Asus Xonar Essence S... 4 Feb 2010 02:16
New Video card I have a mobo similar to this one. http://reviews.cnet.com/motherboards/supermicro-super-p4sct-ii/4505-3049_7-30870632.html I still have the box the mobo came in and I googled the number on the box. My mobo looks almost exactly the same only I don't have a green colored expansion slot. It has 2 PCI slots, 3 PCIx ... 6 Feb 2010 23:58
My Antec TPN-650 "exploded"! The Antec TruePower New 650W was bought on 08 Oct, 2009! Smoke came out of the power supply. When I removed it from the case, some light yellow liquid came out. Fortunately, the motherboard was not harmed. So... what could that light yellow fluid be? -- @~@ Might, Courage, Vision, SINCERITY. / v ... 5 Feb 2010 09:22
Asus automatic overclock? I'm on another forum and someone posted this on one of the threads I'm on: ********** "I notice you are using an ASUS motherboad. It has recently come to my attention that nearly all ASUS motherbords < 3 years old are set to "auto-overclock" and they actually burn themselves out as well as possibly video car... 3 Feb 2010 13:58
No Power For Mobo Help Hi all I bought an intel D915GAG mobo of ebay and put it together the day I got it in the post, I tried 2 power supplies both at 450 Watt but it gets no power to the mobo. When I press the power the cpu fan spins for a second and then nothing, the power supplies fan dosnt spin at all. The case for the pc is b... 2 Feb 2010 14:22 |