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On [General Homebuilt] Ultra m998 front fan cord is WAY to short?
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Prefered or: Since it's only a case fan, run with the case open. You will have plenty of cooling until the new fan cable arrives In [...]
    Publicradi​ohead 1 95 kwanasek
05-02-2008 at 05:02 PM
On [General Homebuilt] One long tone -- suggestions?
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Is the PC speaker plugged into the correct position on the MOBO?
    Publicradi​ohead 14 219 evongugg
05-05-2008 at 01:54 PM
On [General Homebuilt] PC trouble
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This might be a reach but you should do this once a year anyways. Power down the system. Unplug the PSU from the wall. Turn the PC on. T [...]
    Dark Comet 9 180 kwanasek
04-30-2008 at 04:09 PM
On [General Homebuilt] PC Stopped Working!
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1st: Metal conducts heat as well as electricity. Heat spreaders in general are a good thing. The heat spreader acts like a heat sink more [...]
    inSaneELF 33 554 kwanasek
04-29-2008 at 06:04 PM
On [General Homebuilt] How much damage did I just do?
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jzjz, Either you are from the "not my fault" generation or you just believe in communism. Communism: 1 a: a theory advocating [...]
2   sean1017 70 1786 kwanasek
04-29-2008 at 05:56 PM
On [General Homebuilt] SATA driving running in IDE mode? What's that?
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You want to be in SATA mode it's faster. Check your boot order in bios. Make sure the Primary is the HD.
    rwayne 2 470 kwanasek
04-25-2008 at 07:54 PM
On [General Homebuilt] New build shuts down on xp setup
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What XP disk are you trying to install from? Is it a full version or a recovery disk that came with a store bought computer?
    escapee88 6 234 escapee88
04-26-2008 at 08:33 PM
On [General Homebuilt] Malfunctioning Homebuild
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Double check ALL of the connections from the front panel to the MOBO with your MOBO manual. A common newbie mistake is to not count pins on [...]
    Lycan_Assa​ssom 5 181 kwanasek
04-25-2008 at 05:22 PM
On [General Homebuilt] GPU/PSU? Problems
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You PSU is light. Look at your video card manual for PSU requirements. Those cards typically required ~450 watt with a CPU. That doesn't [...]
    tpsulli 3 175 kwanasek
04-25-2008 at 05:00 PM
On [New System Build] Help please I'm puzzled
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It sounds like a bad MOBO. BTW: You don't have to unplug the PSU from the MOBO before swapping cards. All you have to do is unplug the [...]
    stash 23 425 Shadow7037​93
04-24-2008 at 09:58 PM
On [General Homebuilt] Problems with Gigabyte GA-P35
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What do you have for a PSU?
    steve6t6 7 216 kwanasek
04-24-2008 at 04:48 PM
On [New System Build] partitioning a 320 Gig HD???
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Format c:[enter]
    cabt 17 402 cabt
04-29-2008 at 03:52 PM
On [General Homebuilt] Dial-up issues.......I think...
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BTW: U mentioned no DSL in your area. Check into cellular broadband for laptops. I'm using AT&T EDGE (no 3G by me yet :-( ) The PCMCI [...]
    Weichelt 18 406 Weichelt
04-23-2008 at 05:10 PM
On [General Homebuilt] DVD Burning pegs hard drive
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I haven't seen this one for awhile but is antivirus doing realtime scans on the files as you write them?
    nobrainer 6 173 kwanasek
04-21-2008 at 09:44 PM
On [General Homebuilt] Is there a "good" time of year to build a new system?
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May and February are both good times to buy PC parts. Slow time for PC industry and as previsouly mentioned, new technology is coming out m [...]
    vherub 8 379 iluvgillgi​ll
04-21-2008 at 11:16 PM
On [General Homebuilt] SOLVED: SATA drive problems
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Sounds like flakey RAM. Remove one of the RAM sticks and then run a scan and repair with SEATOOLS. If no problems show up for after a week [...]
    danieldasi​lva 5 418 akhilles
04-22-2008 at 01:53 PM
On [General Homebuilt] No sound on certain games unless acceleration switched off??
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I know it seems obvious, but did you disable your onboard audio in bios before running the SB card?
    motto 12 379 nukemaster
04-23-2008 at 05:50 PM
On [New System Build] windows xp won't install on new build
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Without checking into when the PCI express standard was drafted, one would assume that the PCI Express standard or Microsoft would have tak [...]
    latenightr​ob 11 875 wildrover
09-23-2008 at 05:08 AM
On [General Homebuilt] pc keeps shutting down...pls help
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A few years ago it came to light that bad capacitors were being put into MOBOs and causing failures a few years down the line. If not the c [...]
    alphaman9 8 383 kwanasek
04-17-2008 at 04:18 PM
On [General Homebuilt] Computer Restarting Issues
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Could be a driver issue. I had similar problems with an ATI card that didn't like earlier versions of .NET being installed. Try uninstalli [...]
    paul3000 16 563 paul3000
04-27-2008 at 06:04 PM
On [New System Build] problem with my new system
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Have you tried running a hard drive integrety scan? I haven't had much luck with WD drives since the late 90s. Now I only use hitachi desk [...]
    endforce 3 182 kwanasek
04-11-2008 at 08:33 PM
On [General Homebuilt] Dead Motherboard?
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You mentioned that there were no speakers? You should have a case speaker that plugs into your MOBO. If your new case doesn't have one, sw [...]
    beardawnwo​od 3 216 koss64
04-11-2008 at 08:40 PM
On [General Homebuilt] Purple Screen in XP after Vista 64-bit Install
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Recap: Your original problems only happened when loading down the CPU with a game? Swapped out powersupply didn't fix problem Notic [...]
    Epicus 36 1453 nlel1975
06-11-2008 at 03:53 PM
On [New System Build] heatsink touching capacitors
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1) Never complain about low CPU temps. 2) If the CPU does not overheat while working it under heavy load the cap is most likly not keeping [...]
    kaisersoze 4 198 kaisersoze
04-10-2008 at 12:45 AM
On [New System Build] First home-build, feedback appreciated
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Two things I noticed for your configuration if you go with the MSI P7N Diamond LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 780i SLI ATX MOBO 1) the MSI MOB [...]
    Ainokea 35 678 Ainokea
04-12-2008 at 07:59 AM

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