I'll have to try changing out the CD ROM tomorrow, when I can borrow my friend's. But i'm curious...can a faulty CD ROM really cause the system to not boot at all? That sounds odd to me, but then again I don't know much about computers.
For about a year I've had a pretty good gaming setup; Athlon 64 on a MSI Neo Plat with a ATI x800 xt in there. It worked extremely well without any hints to a problem until about three weeks ago when it started beeping periodically; about once every five minutes. Eventually, after leaving my...
I've got problems. Currently I'm a freshman attending Arizona State University and living on campus. Before I moved here I was an avid online gamer, playing everything from first person shooters to massively multiplayer games. However, due to some sort of bandwidth restrictions/ port blocking...