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You can download and use speedfan program. It will let you control your cpu fan speed. Don't turn it way down though as you might risk a heat problem. here

that's awesome, reminds me of when I painted my case blue. This was back in the day where the only cases available were beige, yes, not even black. I still use that case actually. I ran into quite a few problems, most of which relating to buttons getting stuck after pushing them in due to the...

electromagnetic inteference is my best guess. Try moving their power sources away from each other. Make sure the power cable for both monitors don't cross over each other's cables or go near the back side of the other monitor. I never tested it, but it doesn't hurt to try, right?

actually, you use those programs to identify if it is because of overheating or not, it's not fixing it. Those everest or speedfans can be used to monitor the temperature your cpu as well as the speed of your cpu fan. And prime95 is to stress your computer so you can see the max temp your cpu...

Ok, so no blue screens of death shows up before rebooting, I was hoping there are so it makes it easier to pinpoint the problem. That makes the list of possible culprit very long but I'll list out what I can think of. 1) You mentioned it, your cpu could be overheating. (Find out how hot it is...

Sorry to hear you got that problem, I had the same problem awhile ago, and I had to do a clean format of the drive to solve it. I guess your problem right now is booting up the CD. I'm not familiar with what software Dell ship, but usually, Brandnames computer would ship recovering cds (those...

I just had this problem a few days ago and solved it by recovering a good working bios. But my problem started because I flashed a bad bios to my motherboard. I would tell you to try to flash the bios with a newer one, but we need to know why it started first. Your problem may not be a bad bios...

the L1 and L2 cache on the P805 are per CPU, so they comes off to be the same as the one on the laptop. As for the ram, I suppose that's where the desktop falls behind: The laptop runs 1 gb DDR 400 in dual channel mode the desktop runs 2 gb DDR2 533 in 1 channel mode All of these modules are...

Hmm, to my surprise, my 2.0 ghz laptops beats my desktop at 3.5 ghz, goes to show clockspeed doesn't mean anything these day.

First of all, when does the BSOD appear? right when you boot up XP or randomly while you're using it. Second, is it always the same msg? If so, what is the error msg the BSOD displayed? Alot of the time, the error msg will point you right to the failed component.

thanks, killians, for responding. I just managed to recovered it about 1 min ago. Apparently, something is wrong with the floppy drive that I used to make the amiboot.rom disk the first time. I went over to another computer, redownloaded the bios file and make another disk with amiboot.rom on...

Ok, after googling up solutions, I tried copying the bios into a floppy, rename it as amiboot.rom and boot up holding Ctl + Home. Out of the three bios for my motherboard offered on ECS website, the first one (original release) got to a screen that says Flash recovery started. And then right...

I'm not sure if this is the right forum for this, but here goes I'm using an ECS RC410L/800-M motherboard with a Pentium D 805. About a month ago, I flashed my BIOS to the newest version ECS offered and it has been working fine. A few days ago, my soundcard died, so I had to turn on the onboard...

thank you, I will try that

hello everyone, my harddrive recently crash due to bad data cable. After I had replaced the faulty cable with a brand new one, when windows loads up, the screen pops up to have windows scan the drive for any inconsistencies. I let it scan, as I cannot be bother to "Press any keys" to bypass the...