Recent content by 540dude

Ok. My mouse and keyboard randomly stopped working, I tried refreshing the USB controllers, installing chipset drivers, uninstalling them, and nothing was working. I kept getting "Device drivers not successfully installed" I finally did a fresh install of windows and drivers installed fine and...

So I ordered an HIS 6750 from newegg. When I Installed it everything was powered up and the fan was spinning on the card, but no display was shown. I'm wondering if the card was DOA or if it's just not comparable with my system. my previous card was a PNY 9800gt 1gb My motherboard is an Asus...

I have a pretty 2 month old PNY 9800 GT 1GB. Something is wrong with the fan. It's making an annoying sound like something is stuck in it. I aired it out and checked it, there's nothing interacting with the fan. What could be the problem? It idles @ 70C is that too hot?

I just purchased a Western Digital 320GB Caviar Blue sata hard drive. I've installed it, and my BIOS recognizes it. I didn't see anything that I could set it to master on the hard drive, and I didn't see anything that said about setting it to master in the instructions, so I figured you didn't...

I just purchased a Western Digital 320GB Caviar Blue sata hard drive. I've installed it, and my BIOS recognizes it. I didn't see anything that I could set it to master on the hard drive, and I didn't see anything that said about setting it to master in the instructions, so I figured you didn't...

I have a steelseries siberia, the same one as i had before but my old one broke so i sent it in to get a new one because it was under warranty. When I plugged the new one in, with all the same sound settings, the sound is terrible. It sounds like it's trying to run 7.1 surround sound but when...

I have vista 32 bit as of now. I got windows XP pro SP3 and when I put in the desk and reboot it says "press a key to boot from CD..." then I press it and it does its stuff. When it gets to "Setup is starting windows" it goes to a blue screen error and says "A problem has been detected and...

Whenever I type something into a search engine and try to click on the site it gives, it does a bunch of crazy stuff and takes me to some random website. wtf is wrong with my computer? I also can't install updates... it's giving me error code 80244019 I'm about to throw it out the window

Hey guys, I was in the middle of playing a game with a Samsung 22" WideScreen I've had for approximately 3 months. No problems ever with the monitor until all of a sudden the monitor seemed like it "crapped out". Everything went extremely blurry, the coloring in everything was narrowed down to...

I'm currently using a Intel CPU but I want a AMD because they're better for a cheaper price. I'm not sure if my motherboard can use AMD though if that's even an issue. Here's my motherboard http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c00864946&lc=en&dlc=en&cc=us&lang=en&product=3377259

Is this possible? http://www.gpureview.com/show_cards.php?card1=544&card2=575 And I can't find any 8800GT's for sale in the US. Can someone link me?

I had stock 350W power supply and a 7350LE graphics card. I just went out and bought a 550W BFG power supply and a 9800GT. I connected everything up, 24pin to motherboard 4 pin to motherboard sata cables to drivers, 6pin to graphics card Plug in my power cable into the back of PSU, hit the...

Best Intel CPU to boost frames in CSS for around 150$? I can't OC, so make sure it's not dependent on OCing. Thanks!

Is there any way to overclock a CPU without going into BIOS? My computer is store bought and I tried it the other day and there's no overclocking features in my BIOS so I just figured I couldn't. Please let me know if there is a different way. Thanks.

Right now I have a 350W power supply. (Thank you best buy!) .... and a Intel Core 2CPU 6420 @ 2.13GHz oh and a Nvidia 7350LE Graphics card. I play Counter Strike:Source and the only thing I want is to improve my frames. I'm unable to overclock my CPU (Or am I? I went into bios and there was...