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That's a lot to check on, will check it from there. I have asked a friend who has a spare powersupply to bring it with him tomorrow, so we can check that also.
Thanks for the help so far.
WM.
What about weapons of mass-construction?
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Following up on your tips:
I have replaced the power supply with the one I borrowed from a friend.
And it now boots into windows setup, all seems to work now. Also I checked the coolers, cleaned them and reattached them to the board, after checking if there wasn't a shortcircuit near the brackets underneath the motherboard.
Somehow the power supply wasn't functioning as I thought it would.
I will see into replacing the faulty one, since it's only a few months old 
Thanks for the help, now I'm going to enjoy this new power monster! 
WM.
What about weapons of mass-construction?
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WillemM wrote: Thanks for the help, now I'm going to enjoy this new power monster!
No problem, I didn't do much obviously. Enjoy!
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Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau.
Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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Finally, decided to get it...
Athlon 64x2 dual-core 3800+
2 gig ram
250 gig HD.
gForce 7600gt ( 256meg )
Antec SonataII case ( piano black finish )
It's nice, everything pretty much works on it now.
haven't tried Oblivion, but morrowind works very well.
now, if I can just find the appropriate analog monitor driver so that I can use the best frequency before I spend some more money on a LCD monitor.
Maximilien Lincourt
Your Head A Splode - Strong Bad
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Im planning to buy a pc for gaming. I know a little about computer specifications. Can anybody tell me which computer specification should I buy and which brand. Thanks!
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The bigger the better.
2 choices :
- Homebuild/Storebuild, you buy the parts and build it yourself ( or have a store build it to your specs )
- Brand Computers, all in one gaming packages ( XPS from Dell, AlienWare, ... ) that will offer a straight gaming platform.
It also depends on the type of games you want to play, 3d shooters, strategy, RPG, racing games, ...
and most importantly, it depends on the amount of $$$ that you have.
Maximilien Lincourt
Your Head A Splode - Strong Bad
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If your budget will allow, a minimum of a 2gig a64 or 3gig p4, 1 gig of ram (preferably 2), and a geforce6800 or better graphics card. Monitor and harddrive capacities to taste. With 2 gigs of ram this should be able to handle all of the latest games, with 1 gig you'll have a bit of a weak spot, but ram's an easy upgrade in the future. If your budget will allow, get a dualcore chip. It won't help much now, but newer games will be able to take advantage of the doubled processing capacity.
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Hi, Can Any body tell When we purchase Used Computers Which Things we should check before buying. like Processor, Ram, BIOS etc How we check these.
|Muhamad Waqas Butt|
waqasb4all@yahoo.com
www.sktech.freewebspace.com
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You should check everything before you buy a used PC.
Farhan Noor Qureshi
if (this == this) thow this;
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mr. vivek, i think that due to one of them , this problem occurs. so, plz check the following , i thnk yr problem may be sort out...........
1.Drive failure------ yr drive may be faliure.
2.Boot sector failure........ya phir may be yr boot
sector arises some problem.
3.DOS/Windows file corruption...check all windows files , there may be some corrupted file.
4.Run FDISK/MBR ....for rebuilding MBR (Master Boot Record) or DM.....and if through all above yr problem not sort outed, then give the DOS COMMAND......FDISK/MBR.
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Please may someone help me. I am looking for online computer repair classes cheap and affordable cost.
Please can you direct me to the website or an search engine that might help me that way?
I am majoring in Computer Science but I want to improve my knowledge of troubleshooting computers!
Thanks for your responses!
Josue K. Domfang
kdjulianofr@hotmail.com
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DIY No book can prepare you like it.
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juliano83 wrote: I am looking for online computer repair classes cheap and affordable cost.
Google for A++ certification, that’s what the A++ is all about. Just general computer knowledge / repair.
The best way to become familiar with the various problems computers / technology face, is to jump in and get your hands dirty (well only if you have an antistatic wrist wrap). Family and friends are always a good reliable source of broken computers. One word of warning once family and friends learn that you know how to fix computers; they will be coming to you for every thing. 
Good luck
I'd love to help, but unfortunatley I have prior commitments monitoring the length of my grass. :Andrew Bleakley:
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Hi, I have a Compact System PI. It does not go in BISO when i Press F1 for entering in BISO. Can anyone tell me how i enter in BISO and what is soulation of this problem. Thanks
|Muhamad Waqas Butt|
waqasb4all@yahoo.com
www.sktech.freewebspace.com
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Is F1 the key for your machine? Different vendors don't all use the same one. I've also seen F10 and Del used to access the bios.
Assuming you're using the right key, one thing that occurs to me is if you're on an older system and using a USB keyboard the bios might not recognise it even if the OS drivers do. You might want to try a PS2 keyboard if you're using a USB one.
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Did you mean Compaq? If so, using Google found out that Compaq machines uses F10 to access the BIOS
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Yes I mean Compaq. Ya I press F10 but still i could not enter BISO. Can you tell me Where and How can Find Resource and BISO Rewriting on Internet. Thanx
|Muhamad Waqas Butt|
waqasb4all@yahoo.com
www.sktech.freewebspace.com
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No website as such. Just googling for 'compaq bios'. Several of the results suggesting that F10 is common across most of the Compaq models.
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| Muhammad Waqas Butt | wrote: BISO
this is called BIOS, not BISO.
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|Muhamad Waqas Butt|
waqasb4all@yahoo.com
www.sktech.freewebspace.com
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Binary Input/Output System
you have another definition for BISO ?
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AFAIUnderstand, a dual core CPU is somewhat a parallel processor.
Is a single core CPU ( latest technology ) at a higher speed "better" than a dual core at lower speed ?
For general softwares, made for single core CPU, I think it will be better ?
but for future softwares that will take advantage of better threading and parallelism, having a dualo core ( even at lower speed ) will be beter ?
Thanks.
M.
Maximilien Lincourt
Your Head A Splode - Strong Bad
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For single threaded apps a faster single core proc will generally be faster (the exception being if the SC is 10% faster than the DC%, but your background tasks are taking >10% of your CPU time. Visual studio can use multiple cores to accelerate compilation and new games are starting to to go multithreaded as well. Unless you're buying on a rapid upgrade cycle I'd prefer a dualcore solution for enhanced futureproofing. AMDs lowest cost DC chip is ~$300 (dunno the intel pricing but IIRC it's similar), so if you're on a tight budget spending the money on more/faster ram, etc might be a better option.
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Maximilien wrote: AFAIUnderstand, a dual core CPU is somewhat a parallel processor.
From what I remember from my Parallel Computing lectures from uni. Dual core processors isn't strictly parallel processing.
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