Recent content by CTComputers

oh no dont get me wqrong, ive had the 31 inch plasma in my room for a while, its just that I finnaly decided to use it as a display for my comp, and ofcourse I could of BOUGHT the system for much cheaper but the excitement of building it and knowing that this thing will blow competitors away is...

Hey everyone, I just finished building myself a toy computer and I just want some opinions now it took me a while to get the money together for it but what the hell, you only live once rite. Chaintech ZNF3-150 Socket 754 AMD Athlon 64 3200+ 1GB PC3200 200GB Hard Drive 4X2X12 DVD+RW Iomega 16X...

I work at best buy and we have a great steal on Logitech Z640 speakers they are running for 64.99 but you get 4 speakers, a center piece and a subwoofer. The sound is awesome and it looks really cool when you set it up. ( sort of like a surround sound)

Sounds like a good system except you might want to make a few cheap tweaks to your setup. One go out and buy 1 or two case fans and a hard drive cooler. Two get a bigger hard drive, goto best buy and you could get a 200GB for 149.99. The graphics card looks good to me and you might want to put...

i finallygot it fixed, I went and purchased a replacement screen for a hp ze5470 and swapped it out with the dell. I found a cross refference online and it said that the 5470 used the same screens as the dell 250n I was able to find the screen on ebay for 80 bucks. Thanks for the help...

arrite guys, basically I decided to take afew hours on research and battle ot out with this piece of crap lol. I have found out that I can use a bulb from any 15" screen because all of them use the same standard of cathrode bulb. Now if anyone knows where i could get a 15" buld please let me...

the laptop is a dell smartstep 250n, and the screen part number is TX38D95VC1CAM if anyone out there is selling one or knows where to get one cheap please let me know, all i need is just the light bulb not the whole screen assembly, so please let me know. ONCE AGAIN MY SCREEN IS FINE, I JUST...

I took the lcd display aprt and found out that the light tube is shattered... does anyone know where I could purchase a new light????

if the light is burned out.... what do i do about it????

ANOTHER UPDATE lol I have finally got my laptop to power up with all componenets spinning, and it outputs to an external monitor, now the only thing is If you put a flshlight right on the laptops lcds or hold a flashlight near it, you could see the desktop and the display... why does it not...

I once again spent another 4 hours working on the laptop to find out 2 things, number one it still does not display to an external monitor (through the vga port) and number two the fan does not start spinning when the computer is turned on. Now im thinking maybe its just that the motherboard...

Hey Guys, Once again I am having a problem with my laptop. Last time if anyone read the post I had a problem where the laptop would shut down by itself. I figured out it was a cooling problem so I sat down cracked the laptop open cleared out all the dust made sure everything is seated properly...

Hey everyone, Ive been rwading through these forums and decided to get my 2800xp overclocked, my brother helped me out but now he is away to college and he told me to use his s/n here on the site and maybe you guys can help me. I have a imperial motherboard that was pulled out of an emachines...

DO NOT TRY TO UPDATE YOUR BIOS!!!! unless you have done work such as that before. Find a friend that really does know what hes doing and get him to flash your bios and update it. Also I have no idea what your friend did but I had a 12 GB hard drive running Windows XP and still had a massive...

bandage... i would suggest using windows 200 pro for you machine. 2000 runs better than XP when you have a machine with older components