Relic

Okay, what have you installed lately? Did this occur after installing a new game or program? If it did, uninstall the game/program, see/listen to what happens. If you haven't, possibly Windoze lost some files, it happens, we all have to live with it. Uninstall your soundcard through the device manager, reboot, and then reinstall it. Is there an update for your soundcard, and did you just install said update? Sounds like an IRQ problem, something to do with your soundcard slamming your RAM, of which you have gobs. I'd definitely try uninstalling the SB card, and starting off fresh with it, if you haven't already done that.

Have a listen, your PSU is dying, if the noise comes from there, you know what the prob is.

Nothing wrong with those chips, providided you're talking a socket 939 chip, they all OC very well, the "bang-for-the-buck" is very real. If I knew then, what I know now, I would have jumped camps to the AMD bandwagon a long time ago.

Originally posted by gef4000 mx: Quote: Sounds good so if I go with the DFI LANPARTY UT nF4 Ultra-D Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 Ultra ATX AMD Motherboard the CPU I should get would be a ... sorry I'm having trouble finding that but im thinking it would be the AMD Anthlon 64 4000+ (socket939) Definitely the Ultra-D, it can be "pencil-modded" to an SLI board, tis why I got one, an SLI board for $60 less. No need to get a 4000+, a 3700+ will OC to those speeds, more bang for the buck.

AMD just does more work faster, that's it in a nutshell. When it comes to gaming, that means a lot, my AMD Athlon 3700+ 2.2ghz stock is running @2.75ghz, that is equal to an Intel 5.5ghz, which of course Intel doesn't make. That says it all right there.

Originally posted by gef4000 mx: Quote: well i guess I would probably lean toward's game more, but it is just mainly to show to my dad that I can make a computer and it is going to be better then anything from dell those cheap peices of ... and I'm going to be planning on changing when I have enough money to upgrade something. Okay, forget about getting an AGP board then, you want an AMD board, PCI-E, and a PCI-E vidcard, you say you want this to last 5 years, AGP will be dead in 2 years. DFI LanParty is the way to go, and AMD for gaming. I've been an Intel fanboy for 15years, just swapped over to AMD for gaming, and I'm very impressed. Your 6600GT AGP(I have one in my old system) is a very good card, but in 2 years it won't be able to play the new games, damn, it will have a very hard time playing some of today's games with the eye-candy turned on. If you're not worried about eye-candy, you're not a gamer. If you want "future-proof" for the next 5 years, you have to go PCI-E. Your CPU/RAM/vidcard/PSU will be your high-ticket items, expect to pay $1200 Canadian for those items, and that will get you about 3 years of "future-proof", you'll be upgrading in 2 years to play new games at good frame rates(I know I will). Now is a bad time to upgrade(I did it anyhow, I was hurting), Intel's Conroe smokes EVERYTHING by AMD, and that's their bottom of the line Conroe. AMD "SAYS" they have an answer for it, but when that may appear remains to be seen...... Conroe will not be cheap, no matter how you look at it, but then again, the next generation of AMD chips means a new mobo/RAM config, which is not going to be cheap either. What it comes down to is that you cannot build a "5 year future-proof" system right now, your system will be about 2 year future-proof with an AGP setup, provided you go with an nVidia 7800GTX setup, and that's pushing it, 3 to 4 years(pushing it) with a top of the line PCI-E setup. The problem is that you're limiting yourself by designing/building your system around a videocard, and not exactly the best videocard available, especially in AGP form. To play the newest games with a 6600GT AGP you need a top of the line CPU and RAM, if you want the eye-candy turned on. That's big bucks, for something that's very close to being obsolete. If you want a system to "work" with current games, for the next 5 years, I can give you suggestions, but an AGP system is not "future-proof" in any sense of the word/term.

Originally posted by need help: Quote: It stopped responding when I made my computer sleep for awhile and then it wouldn't come back on so I had to switch to my computer monitor jack instead of the GeForce. Now I don't really know much about the whole computer thing and how it all works so I could really use a lot of details and step by step. :\ Okay, so what you are saying is that your computer went into "hibernation mode", and when you brought it back, your vidcard wouldn't work. Right? Now, you want details, yet you have provided none yourself! I suspect that your onboard video is still enabled, so when you came out of hibernation it screwed with your vidcard. Onboard video has to be disabled when running an add-in card, this must be done through the BIOS. How is that done in your BIOS? I have no freakin idea, as I have no freakin idea what your system consists of! Details, yes, always details, when asking for help, system specs are very important, we can't help if we don't know what we are dealing with. :x

Ummm, very important, do you intend to use this as a gaming system, or a video editing system?

Yes, "AsRock", very, ummmm, interesting name brand, think maybe something got lost in the translation? Heh heh heh

Okay, Windoze can do weird things when you let it install your hardware. So, uninstall your nic card through the device manager, reboot, when Windoze says it wants to install your nic, click "cancel", then install yourself. Reboot, and see if that fixes the problem. Also, did you uninstall the drivers for your old vidcard before installing the new one? Another thing, was it an nVidia card? Old drivers can be causing a conflict with your nic. Always run Driver Cleaner Pro: http://majorgeeks.com/Driver_Cleaner_Professional_d3214.html in safe mode, after uninstalling drivers, then reboot, and install your new drivers yourself, don't let Windoze install them. Let us know how that works out for you.

You're welcome, happy to have helped.

Originally posted by tool_462: Quote: Yeah I plan on building a pc from TigerDirect, i just want to get this PC solid for my girlfriend to use. I found a cheap mobo with an agp slot that i could toss a cheap card in to upgrade the mx4000 but it says pentium 4 socket 478, but doesnt say anything about celeron. Let me know if this would work with my Celeron 478 pin processor? ECS mobo I will soon be posting parts of my new pc to make sure everything is compatible, and see if anyone has any cheap recomendations. Yes it will http://www.pcchips.com.tw/PCCWeb/Product...e=CPU%20Support

Originally posted by jmmijo: Quote: @Relic, you should see my retro collection, not a huge one by any means but still a nice cross-section of vintage micro computing @Tool, if you do find another motherboard to try out, let us know the results or if you just scrap the old one and purchase a new model, even bare bones white boxes are pretty cheap and are usually a decent configuration too. Oh yeah, I have 2 Tualatin(unlocked) 1.26ghz, one in my wife's current system, with an Albatron ti4200, kicks butt for an old beastie. PIII 866(unlocked), Celery 1100, AMD K6 233ANR, very old Intel boards(working), and I have no clue why I keep them, heh. I just sent off my ASUS FX5200 AGP to a kid in the states, upgrade for his MX4000 PCI, I wasn't using it. Last year I sent off my old Voodoo 3000 AGP to a buddy in Montreal, he was putting together a system for a kid who's mom, was, well, not all that well off, worked hard, but couldn't get ahead. Tomorrow I'm firing off my old Matrox Mystique PCI card to a kid in Calgary, it's gotta be better than his onboard crapola. Still have an old PCI ATI Rage3D II+(something like that), I'll pass that on eventually too. I just hate to toss this stuff, someone will have a use for it.

jimmijo Heh heh heh, I just got my new system, upgrade from a 1.26 Tualatin/6600GT AGP, 512mb RAM, to a DFI LanParty Ultra-D, 1GB(2X512) OCZ Dual Channel Platinum EL 2/3/5/2, eVGA 7600GT CO, AMD Athlon64 3700+. My very first systen was a "Patriot Computers Canada"(now bankrupt) with a PII 266(@356 using H.Oda's SoftFSB), Matrox Mystique PCI, 64 major megs of RAM. I started out on my bro's Tandy(Radio Shack) 386SX. Bought a "piggy-back" Cyrix chip. made it a 386DX, lasted 3 months before it fried, hahahahaha. That first system, as in "REAL system", was a long time after the first POS I bought, Commodore64 with cassette tape drive. I paid $400 used for that puppy, man, it sucked! :x tool_462 Sounds like your mobo is dying, I don't think it's the PSU. Either the mosfets are crapping out, or some caps have died. It's either that, or your system is overheating bigtime, which seems strange, Celery's run cool, when compared to Prescotts and the like. Like jimmijo said, it could also be a RAM problem, and I agree, that is another likely culprit. If I had a buck for every RAM problem I've ever had, I'd be rich.

System specs would be nice, for all we know, you have a Commodore64......

I suggest trying to clear your CMOS. You can do that by either using the jumpers on your mobo, or by turning off your system, unplugging it from the wall, and then pulling the CMOS battery, leave it out for 5 minutes, then put it back in, plug in the computer, and see if that solved the problem.

Intel only makes one board that can be OC'ed, and they just started making it, your board, as with ALL older Intel boards, can't be OC'ed.

'98 doesn't recognize NTFS file systems, so it can't see them. XP/2000 have to be installed after '98. You can try getting rid of '98, then backing up your XP/2000 drives, or just start fresh. I'm not sure if doing a repair install on XP would get all your files back, maybe someone else has a clue, personally, I think yur pooched.

Happy to have helped out, your card should rock.

Lard Tunderin Jazuz boy! You CAN'T find another driver?! Well, have a boo over here, drivers out the ying/yang: http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?id=10 almost 500 vidcard drivers there for nVidia alone. Use Driver Cleaner Pro: http://majorgeeks.com/Driver_Cleaner_Professional_d3214.html in safe mode after removing your old drivers.

Try a different driver, that file should be included with the driver.

This will fit your card: http://www.ncix.com/products/index.php?sku=14082&vpn=VF700-ALCU&manufacture=ZALMAN%20TECH

Originally posted by JonAllport: Quote: Hey I have an ASUS A7N8X-VM motherboard which has a GeForce4 MX Intergrated GPU (32MB). I'm looking to upgrade the graphics card but don't know, and can't find a list of compatible cards. Does anyone know what cards are compatible with this motherboard? Thanks Being an nVidia fanboy, I can only recommend nVidia cards, how much are you willing to spend? Couple options here: I wouldn't go with anything less than this, I have one myself, it rocks. http://www.ncix.com/products/index.php?s...mp;promoid=1001 Top of the line? Here ya go...... http://www.ncix.com/products/index.php?sku=17727&vpn=256-A8-N509-AX&manufacture=eVGA

Originally posted by tschrock: Quote: Sorry if I offended anyone. We are a computer repair shop and we get a lot of the same questions frequently so we develop help articles to assist people. By definition, spamming is plastering unsolicited links on a forum to unrelated content. I have never and will never do that. In fact, if you read my post you will see that I offered the solution IN THE FORUM and then offered a link back to the tutorial IF the user needed additional help. I could understand your anger if I simply posted a link that said "go here for the solution" but that would be spam, and that is not what I did. A quick review of your recent post shows a small handful actually helped anyone solve a problem. Who really cares if you get 400 spam emails a day in you Yahoo in box? Who uses Yahoo anymore anyway? I checked my logs, and I have received a whole 13 visits from this forum, and I have posted about 6 times. If the moderator has a problem with me posting links to relevant content (like bootdisk.com, and yes, the schrock website) I am sure I will hear from the moderator. Until I am told otherwise felix, I will continue to help people and yes, post links to relevant content. Actually, to further the definition of SPAM in forums/message boards/usenet groups, self-promotion or promotion of a specific site, repeatedly, is considered SPAM. Seeing that you post a link to your site with every post you make, and also have a link to your site in your sig, you are definitely promoting yourself, and your business. Do you have advertisers on your site? Well then, every page hit you get counts to you, page hits are VERY important to advertisers, and therefor very important to you. Here's an idea, I'll just check it out for myself... ***EDIT*** Thar ya go, on your home page, "google ads", ayup, and every hit promotes your page upwards in the search rankings. Conclusion: SPAM.

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