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Originally posted by Arin: Quote: Well, when I test the SPD on cpu-z it reads correctly... I'll have to try one stick at a time. Let us know what happens please as this one is kind of a strange issue to be sure

OK, you just solved it yourself, it was working fine with two sticks of memory and now with 4 sticks things are whacky. Well, remove the pair of new memory modules and retest and see if things go back to normal or not. My guess is that maybe one or both of the new sticks have a faulty SPD on it and of course this is being misread by the BIOS which in turn feeds the diagnotistic apps the info.

@Arin, I can answer the L1 cache question for you, you have to add both the Trace and Data L1 cache's together to get the 128K total of L1 cache Look at AMD's website for more CPU comparisons. Also, I do notice that CPU-Z is reporting that you FSB is listed at 200MHz, this means it is running the RAM syncronously with the FSB, otherwise it would be reporting the FSB speed of only about 140MHz like you said. This could just be a reporting issue with CPU-z and really does not reflect what it really is running at. You could also try running benchmarks like 3D Mark which gives you system info like the speed of the memory and such

According to ACTIVISION's knowledge base, none of the Intel IGP's are supported. Only the following GPU's are supported: ATi Radeon Series nVidia GeForce Series Matrox Parhelia Series Now this is only for Call of Duty, not the expansion pack or the latest Call of Duty 2 coming out. Remember that what you need to play many/most games now is a Hardware based GPU, that will most likely be a discrete GPU based graphics card either for an AGP or a PCIe slot

One power supply I've used quite a bit in the past couple of years has been the Channel Well ISO-500D model. The problem is that these are not easy to find, except perhaps etailers. Since I work for a system builder, we sell these as an upgrade to most standard 300Watt PS units. It has dual cooling fans and they are pretty darn quiet, also they are both thermally controlled too Now I do beleive that Channel Well is the OEM/ODM for many other so-called manufacturers, like Antec for instance and nSpire. However, I'm sure they make them according to the spec that their clients want. This then leads me to Antec as well, they also have a good track record too, so does Enermax.

Thanks for the link, I may just check it out Another good one Stonetrek

Most likely you're going to be out of luck on the graphics card upgrade on many notebooks, they simply have no room for a removable graphics card. That being said, there are some Dekstop Replacment Notebooks that do have upgradable graphics cards, these however are generally the high-end machines that cost more. I'm afraid you're that you would need to purchase a new notebook to have this kind of upgradable functionality

Strange, no, not really. I've heard this sound many times before as I've been building boxes for over 15 years now The sound is due to a choke(or coil for you that didn't know), that is not as tightly wound around it's ferrite bead core. Basically pretty much all power supply units are of the switching kind and of course this means that some of the circuitry operates at high frequencies. Sometimes the harmonics of the switching cicuit will cause some of the chokes/coils to loosen from their cores a bit and this vibration can become audible to the human ear. Most likely the power supply will work just fine however, since it's making an audible noise, you really can't just listen to it all the time you're using your machine so really the most cost effective option is to purchase a new one. Yes you could attempt to find the noisy component by using a plastic or insulated tool to poke around in the open power supply cage, but that means having to remove it's cover, then laying your machine on it's side to have the open PS facing towards you and then having the machine turned on so you can locate this component. Takes a lot of time so you decide. Also note that there are dangerous voltages inside these things, like messing about inside a TV, not really recommended for the average Joe/Jane

OK, here's the details on my new Pimp Daddy Gaming Rig: Motherboard I had to go with this one because the A8N32-SLI Deluxe is not yet available Graphics Cards Pre-Tested and OC'd cards with the infamouse dust buster coolers Memory Kingston HyperX Dual-Channel Kit, 1GB, PC3500 Power Supply I need the extra power and connectors for this monster as well Hard Drives Hard Drives So I'm getting a pair for Windows XP Pro (32-bit) for the main gaming OS. Then I'm going to dual-boot with Windows XP (64-bit) to test things out. I do beleive that Far Cry has a 64-bit patch already for their game and others will follow too Chassis I tried to recycle a Thermaltake chassis, the issue was the damn HD cage configuration. It blocked the graphic cards from being installed, DOH!!! CPU The AMD Athlon 64-X2 4800+.

I have seen a decent Sapphire Radeon 9250 PCI card available and this should indeed work fine with the Sims 2, albeit a tad slow due to the PCI interface, but still usable

My guess is that they want to run a game and of course the onboard 810e IGP is not really up to the task @sophielakess, you will need to check with the Packard-Bell website for details on your machine model as there were many motherboards that didn't come with an AGP slot that were based on the 810 series chipset. You may have to find a PCI slot graphics card to upgrade too and also wether you have a free PCI slot to begin with in your machine.

I'm afraid you will need to get a non-lobotimized GeForce 4 graphics card, both the older MX-440 and the later MX4000 GPU's are really not full-featured GeForce 4 GPU's It will work for many things however, playing any recent games will cause you nothing but grief trying to get them to work. Sure the pricing is great, but you get what you pay for. If you want to stick with the nVidia line of GPU's, you should be able to find the older 5000 series graphics cards for pretty darn cheap now, this will include the 5200/5500/5600/5700/5800 cards. Pricing on the last gen 6000 series will be a bit more, however, the performance is greater of course

You're probably correct on this, however, you describe the symptons that I'm having to a "T". This doesn't mean however, that these same symptons can not occur with other issues as well

I've noticed something similar, however, in different games such as Guild Wars, Lineage II and Dungeon Siege 2. It always occurs during some kind of graphics action(s) on my screen at the time and of course I have to hit the reset button to reboot my box. I've narrowed the cause down to my graphics card, an X800 Pro, and I think it has some flaky frame buffer memory chip(s) as some of the graphics diags seem to indicate this as being the cause of random failures. Since I'm getting parts to build my new SLI rig, I'll post more info once I get it built and tested out with the same games of course

To answer your questions: Yes both of these CPU's are EMT64 ready, meaning they will support the newest 64-bit OS's, both Windows XP (64-bit Edition) and Windows Vista. These CPU's are also backwards compatible to 32-bit OS's like the standard Windows XP (Home/Pro). In fact I'm going to be purchasing the latest AMD Athlon 64-X2 and I'll be running a dual-boot config, one with XP Pro(32-bit) and the other XP Pro(64-bit). Also note that there should be no reason you couldn't also run any of the 64-bit *nix distros either

Originally posted by mctonale: Quote: BTW several of the NT Compatible banner adds are for exactly the same thing (Ipods though). Which are being run and fed by Google Ad Servers

I'm now looking at upgrading my gaming rig to an Athlon 64 X2 and I want to get some feedback, especially from any user of the current gen SLI rigs Asus announced their latest SLI motherboard, the A8N32-SLI Deluxe using the latest nVidia nForce 430 + 6150 chipset to support dual x16 PCIe slots. Now then, does anybody notice any performance issues on current SLI rigs using an effective bandwidth of x8 ?!? Basically, is it worth me waiting until one of these boards is available rather then just getting one of their current SLI motherboards ?!?

If that single long beep code is like many of the Award/Phoenix BIOS codes on desktop motherboards, it would indicate that the RAM/Memory is faulty or can't be recognized/initialized properly. Do you have one or two sticks of ram installed in your notebook ?!? If you have two sticks, then try removing one of them and retest again. I bet however that the outages did cause some kind of surge that did damage to your machine, no way to know for sure without getting it diagnosed further however

Is the power cable the (3)Three pin kind ?!? If so, is this connected to the CPU_FAN connector on the motherboard ?!? You should then be able to control the speed via the BIOS and the monitoring software that came with your motherboard and run it on the slower speed. Be aware that this heatsink should be the copper kind so you can properly cool the CPU while running the fan at a slower speed

Hmm, that 9200 would have worked and it is a faster GPU then the MX4000 they gave you So did this shop keep the 9200 for themselves and give you the MX4000 card ?!? If so then I would ask if they could swap it back, plus that card should also support AGP 8x too as the GPU supports that mode. Other good alternatives are the ATi Radeon X600/700/800 series, the latter being the more expensive and faster card of course. The x600/700 series cards can be had for much cheaper and offer some decent performance. Also look into the GeForce 6xxx series cards from nVidia as well, these are good performers as well

My guess is that you do not have Quicktime installed, note the filename and the extension is usually .qts Goto APPLE's website to d/l the latest runtime. Also note that you could bypass this altogether and just d/l the latest OEM drivers from nVidia's website as well

I beg to differ on that opinion, I personally use and recommend Spybot - Search & Destroy and I don't have anything remotely related to your issue concerning DirectX. I'm thinking your machine may have a corrupted OS and that running this scan just happens to cause the OS to barf on itself, hence the reason you need to reinstall DX9 once again. I would recommend backing up your data files and anything else you want to keep and then flatlining the HD and reinstalling the OS fresh with the latest device drivers for your motherboard, graphics, sound etc.... Then install fresh copies of the following tools, Spybot - Search & Destroy, Microsoft Anti-Spyware BETA, AdAware PE and your favorite anti-virus app

It's possible that you could manually repair the partition table but I'm skeptical this will work in the manner you want it too I did a GOOGLE search and found these listed that may help you out. My suggestion is to recover as much as R-Studio will recover and then run the HD manufacturers diagnostics on that drive to rule out any media/hardware defects. This will involve destructive testing so it's best to recover first then run these tests.

I recommend using R-Studio, it's found and saved data on even a failed RAID Zero array for me As for why it's finding so many FAT entries, I can only surmise that the MFT has been corrupted and this is R-Studio's way of place holding the orphaned files and folders.

As far as I know you can't due to the fact there has not been any kind of USB support on NT4. Also note that those that have attempted to use USB broadband modems have run into problems anyway. This is really not recommended and you should only use the Ethernet connection, which of course will work with NT4