Recent content by noodlelegs

thanks for the help guys. turns out my hard drive was bad. exchanged it for a new one. anyone else had problems with 250gig maxtor drives?

i have tried to install the drivers that were on my winxp cd... they dont work right. then i tried downloading from the nvidia web site, they dont work right, then i tried the drivers from the nvidia cd, and they dont work right either. the audio and video are the main thing that goes slow. when...

well, its not the speakers, i hooked it up to my stereo system and i have the same problem. i think its the driver. i have the nvidia nforce audio drivers... the latest ones (4.09). maybe i should get an older driver??? this is driving me crazy.

I just got a new computer with 512mb ram, amd 2600+... its got everything. except when i listen to music on it, the sound is scratchy... like every few seconds there is static. could it be my speakers just suck (they were really cheap no name speakers) or could it be something wrong with the...

computer idles around 59c.... then gets up to 61 under pressure. would that burn it up? i think i will talk to the guy again tomorrow. i also just had to reinstall windows... i think some divx codec i installed corrupted something. i was also unplugging the monitor and other peripherals while...

I called the computer store that built the pc for me. he asked how i knew the processor was overheating, i told him i looked at "system health", he said not to touch that. i said i didnt mess with anything, but that the alarm was going off every 10 seconds or so because it went from 57c to 60c...

if i take it back to the people who sold it to me, shouldnt they give me a better fan? how much is that thermalcooling stuff? maybe i should just pay them extra to put better cooling in. any help is appreciated. thanks

i just had a local computer store build me a custom computer... amd 2600+, 512mb ram, 250gb hd, dvdrw, tv tuner, etc... and every once in a while i hear the CPU overheat alarm go off a little.... what do i do????? i am just a novice computer user... i dont overclock or do anything crazy to make...

i was looking at the ATI All-In-Wonder Radeon 9000... it has 64 mb ram. is that enough to do video editing and burning to dvd? if i get that, i dont need a separate tv tuner card right? also, can someone point me to a "how-to" site for building my own computer? thanks... noodlelegs "arms of...

I haven't bought a new computer in years and need some advice. I went to a local computer shop and they gave me a quote on a computer. i told them i wanted to burn dvds and record stuff from tv onto my hard drive. they gave me these specs... AMD 2600+ Processor 512 MB DDR Memory 2700 speed 200...