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Hi everyone, I have: An xbox 360 HD-DVD player PowerDVD Ultra (the one that plays BD and HDDVD) 'Gigabyte' brand nVidia 8800 GTX Opteron 165 (dual core) @ 2.7Ghz 2GB RAM 24" 1920x1200 resolution Monitor with DVI-D HDCP input (connected to graphics card with DVI) Windows XP nVidia 158.22...

bump! Please :'( I'd really appreciate some help!

Do you have another PC you could test the drive out in?

My vote's for the back... But why don't you try out both and see which one makes your system run cooler?

I'm guessing that your PC isn't on long enough to install a program to monitor temperature levels. You said it was either a CPU or a heating issue... Maybe your CPU is overheating. You could try applying fresh thermal paste and reinstalling the CPU fan. Also, doesn't Alienware have pretty good...

I should also add that there are two other computers, Dell laptops, which are also connected wirelessly to the same router, but which haven't had any problems at all.

Yeah, you basically do pretty much the same thing as when you install windows the first time on a clean hard drive. Usually you press delete as the computer is loading up to go into Bios.

These are the specs of my desktop computer: Hiper 580W PSU Asus A8N-SLi Deluxe Mobo A64 3800+ (single core) 1 Gb PC 3200 (2x 512) 8800 GTX X-Fi Xtreme Music 400 Gb WD Hard Drive Windows XP Home We recently bought a new Wireless ADSL Router (a D-Link DSL-2740B) to replace our old wireless...

Aaah, the msconfig disabling worked. I've now uninstalled it and installed zonealarm. The problems left with kerio. Another thing came up though- after installing zonealarm, avast! came up with a message saying that a feature had to be disabled because of a compatability issue with zonealarm...

Well, I've just tried uninstalling in safe mode but no luck; it came up with the message 'Windows Installer could not be accessed. This can happen if you are running windows in safe mode'.... :'( :S

Hey, thanks for the reply- I'm using the Free Edition of 'Sunbelt Kerio Personal Firewall 4'... for anti-virus I'm using 'avast!'. I will now uninstall in safe mode; thanks for the tip!

Hi there everyone, I think I've got a problem in that my PC which will occasionally take ages to launch a program. For instance, Age of Empires 3, when I recently tried to launch it, took a good 5-10 minutes to launch the splash screen, before proceeding normally. Other things like the...

In Need of Guidance! ((Overclocking my CPU+RAM)) Hi everyone, I'm overclocking for the first time, with the following specs: Opteron 165 MSI K8N-Neo4 Platinum 2x1gb OCZ PC-3200 RAM, 2.5-3-2-5 I've been skimming through oodles of OC info, and what i did first was to find the CPU max... so i...

Hi everyone... I've got 2 computers- one wireless enabled laptop and a wireless desktop. What I want to do is to play multiplayer games (Civ IV and Rise of Nations) without having to connect to the internet and without any hub. How can I do this? I think that I've already connected to an...

Hey everyone... Basically, I've got a PC which I built myself (K7N mobo, 9800pro, 1gb, XP 3000+, Windows XP home SP2). I've recently sold it to a friend, so in order to clean up windows of all my files I decided to reinstall it. So having dug up my originial windows install CD (service pack 2...