Forum: Tech Help

I"m in the market for a new router. I currently have the D-link DIR-655 which I am going to give to my sister so her and her family have a router to use since theirs broke... which puts me in the market. Any recommendations? I don't need NAS or network printing I can share the printer. I'm...

I have never built a desktop before and am interested in the potential. I'm really good at breaking things less so at building them. I did purchase a Dell factory outlet desktop several years ago and after 3 years of ownership they conceded in giving me a much updated comp so this comp has lasted...

So in my voltage monitor in bios... my 12v is reading at 11.71... apparently its suppose to be higher... i have a asus p5n32-e sli plus and a 750 watt corsair psu, so im not sure why its so low. It was at 11.64 with a 550 watt PSU. help

So I'm completely stumped and google is failing me as well, so you guys are my last hope before I try and hardware myself out of this. I just got back from a week long vacation and prior to leaving my internet was working just fine. Last night when I returned my desktop no longer recognizes the...

going from vista to 7 as an upgrade option that came with my new PC last summer....Am I going to have to reinstall all my shit? Or is it just going to upgrade the system without deleting my games/documents/music/etc ?

just picked up a 4890 because they are relatively cheap atm. the new p55 gd80 mobo will support another one too. any opinions on duallies? worth the extra? advantages/disadvantages? i am currently scouring tech forums to see results etc. edit: ok, some benchmarks ive seen put 2 at better then or...

Any suggestions on a new monitor. My SyncMaster 173T ( about 7 years old 17") is starting to go on the fritz. I have replaced my video card a few months back and now the monitor at times will blink on and off ? I think it may be time to replace, any suggestions? Thanks, cavyr!

i need to get one so i can back up my music instead of burning it to many dvd's in order to reformat. i have about 60 gigs of music but i want to go higher than that - anyone have any recommendations on brands or experience (good or bad) with these? want to spend around $100 - was browsing...

Anyone else having problems logging on to Steam tonight?

Okay so I'm over due for a pc overhaul here and this is what I've come up with so far. Anyone have a case or psu they are in love with and would recommend? What do you think about this build for gaming? Intel Core i7-920 Bloomfield 2.66GHz 4 x 256KB L2 Cache 8MB L3 Cache LGA 1366 130W...

I lost the cd key to BF1942 but i found the one to the Road To Rome expansion. I dont have the game installed on any Hd's anymore.. is there a way to get my key somehow. I forget how the BF1942 multiplayer logged in and such but if its account based.. i dont remember my email from that long ago. ...

Anyone own one?

I've never scripted anything before and would like to try to learn the basics online if possible. I hear Putty is a pretty standard application to run scripts with ect. Does anyone know where I can go or read to learn the language? And what type of language does Putty except? Sorry if none...

I run into a website or two that for some reason firefox will not load completely. The page will load some borders and an ad or two and then it just says done on the status bar. I tried completely uninstalling and reinstalling and that didnt solve my problem. Mind you, this is happening to...

would the microsoft remote desktop service be the best solution for fixing a windows vista notebook with a virus thats over 50+ miles away from me? if not, what would be the best FREE thing (next to driving my ass over there and repairing this notebook). thanks in advance

I need some hellps! I installed a western digital serial ata 250 gb 2.5" hard drive into my friends hp notebook. Upon inserting windows xp /w service pack 3 and changing bios to boot from cd rom. I get to the win xp blue install screen and I get an error message that tells me "no hard drive found"....

my desktop started making a hissing noise... maybe the fan? it runs fine, but its just annoying, and i dont want it to turn into a problem

So a teacher friend of mine is using IE and Vista and Gmail. She clicked directly on an attachment in her gmail and chose the IE download option of "Open". While editing the excel file she frequently hits "save" to save her progress. As she finishes and closes excel, after saving again, she can...

I'm pricing my machine... need some info. the more HELPFUL opinions, the better - want to order today. Operating system - stick with XP, or hit the Vista trail. core i7 2.66 vs 3.06 - noticeable difference between the 2? Is it worth the cost to upgrade to the 3.06? Or stick with a...

Need some tech help. Woke up this morning any my Gateway FX Laptop was stone cold locked up (but I could still move mouse) and for some reason the screen had defaulted back to 800x600. Had to hard restart and go through checkdisk (no errors) I dont think. However, Ive tried rebooting it...

Moving back down to San Diego, and have the option of ATT or TimeWarner. Interested to hear anyones experiences. I plan on getting net + hdtv service. thanks all :peace:

I'm thinking of going out today and picking me up a Core i7 920 with a board and memory as that's all I really need. My question is what board should I get? I would like to spend no more than 200$ on a board. I'd like it to have Crossfire and support Tri Channel memory and also be able to...

Hi, I have a question regarding VPN. I'm not much of a computer person so please bare with me. I have some friends who lives in the Philippines and they would like to play a US based game that blocks outside IP addresses. Would it be better for me to set up a VPN by buying a VPN...

I'm looking to buy a new pc in the next couple of months and would like some help with what to buy and what not to buy. I'm looking to spend around 1200 to 1500 bucks. I was thinking about getting a core 2 duo and the eVga 260GTX DDR3 1G card. But not sure if the video card is DDR3 if the RAM for...

? I'm ready to purchase again :D But i want to know what i should be looking for to keep it relatively on top of the ball for today's general gamer, but upgradable later on to keep up with the times. I know of course it's cheaper to build...but I don't do that well in terms of the initial...

Alright, so within the last few months I've purchased a new monitor for my PC. I was previously running with a 19' non-wide screen with 1280x1024 res and my setup was doing just fine at high settings on nearly all my games. However now I'm running with a 22' wide screen at 1680x1050 and play...

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I am currently bidding out a new computer to my roommate. In addition to audio production (Sony Acid etc..) he will be using it as a workstation. He does zero gaming but will be using it for AutoCAD, SketchUP and other graphics intensive programs. Anyone have thoughts on graphics cards? I am...

A friend of mine wants to build a complete home theater system in his bedroom (old big living room), with a TV above the fireplace and surround sound. He is looking to spend 7-8k, but wants to know 1) Things to buy, latest and greatest 2) Dos and Donts of installation and setup. Any...

My nephew got an mp3 player for his birthday, and we downloaded some itunes songs to go on it, and they all download as M4A files. there's a million converters out there, but they cost lots of money i don't want to spend - anyone know of something free?

So I have 2 partitions, one with XP, one with win7. I wanted to acess some application data and my documents, along with other stuff from my xp user while I was in win7, so I changed the ownership of the folder to myself. I forgot about it, tried to login to XP, and well, not much worked. Cut...

I have a Sony DRU 530A dvd drive, it handles just about any style of DVD media and I havent had any problems with it until now. I have a burned dvd using 4x dvd+r media that my home theatre dvd player reads just fine, but my comp refuses to recognize the disk when it is in the drive. Ideas?

What is the difference between an Elite and an Arcade version, other than the 120GB drive? Elite is $400. Arcade is $200. The 120GB drive is $120. Why don't I just buy the Arcade and the drive for $320?

I dont know how the hell it happened but all of sudden im getting popups like crazy in mozilla for the best antivirus 2009 program and it keeps trying to get me to save and install a file. Ive ran AVG free and it found shit and got rid of it as well as Ad-Aware and it supposedly got rid of shit,...

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=785457 Sounds like you are not the only one. I didn't read all of the thread but you might find some answers there. P.S. You cost us the game yesterday :frown:

I have a feeling Sliver knows the answer to this question... I have a PC at work that we want to turn in to a streaming media pc. There are only about 5 of us working at the same time on any given day and maybe 2-3 will be on at the same time tops. My question is what would the easiest way to...

I'm thinking of treating myself to a 52" LCD for Xmas. Anyone have a recent model and like it a lot? I've read up a bit and the Samsungs seem to be the shiznit. :peace:

Last Wednesday i downloaded the last Windows XP update service pack 3 and soon after the install i noticed glitches start occurring here and there in non-associated Microsoft programs like Ventrillo, Mozilla Firefox and Valve/steam. I ran virus scans and the like to see if i pickup up some sort of...

The screen of my laptop is broken and I need to be able to connect it to an outside monitor. I've tried connecting a monitor to it and the screen does not load on it (I think I need to change a property in a laptop setting for the outside monitor to be able to use etc., however, screen is 100%...

I need some help picking out a good single thread CPU for a home built arcade system. Ive been using an old old XPS laptop to run MAME (housed in a wood arcade frame). However, the CPU is so old most of the new arcade games are slow as hell. I am going to build a small system, mini-mobo,...

Is there a way to save or download the streaming files on youtube or liveleak?

Hey, Everything looks green in movies I play whether its on the netflix player, wmp or divx. It's not specific to the movie or the player obviously, so what is it specific to? Is there some type of file I need to update? Another weird thing that's happening is that when I use WMP, if I close...

Is there that big of a differance in speed? Bro in law just built a gaming machine with all the goodies. velociraptor, GTX260, 4gigs ram, the biggest duocore, etc. The GTX 260 and ram both say use 64bit. Is it worth doing a whole format and reinstalling with 64bit?

Anyone know of a reliable place to get proxies from? All the sites I've tried thus far don't seem to have anything that works. edit: specifically I'm looking for a proxy that will work with a secure page

I currently have WinVista installed on my hard drive. I want to create a small partition on my HD for a install of WinXP (which I just had to format due to a virus ;/). Whats the best program to use for this? My stupid audio unit does not work in windows vista 64, so i need to use my other one...

OK you tech gurus, can you tell me what the pros and cons are for each? All I know is DLP is larger than the rest and plasma can have huge screen size.

Video card has been dying slow death with crazy jaggies shooting out of all chars in all games. It got to the point I could not play TF2 any longer and has now given me blue screen of death. "Video Driver failed to initialize". I've tried to open up in safe mode to no avail it gets to windows...

My monitor auto adjust is broken. It takes me from a normal looking screen to a yellowish hue screen. I have a A-OPEN F2915 or something. I've tested the video card with another monitor , its not that. I've tested the screen with another computer, it is definitely the screen itself (or rather...

so....I have moved, and finally unloaded/unpacked all my pc stuff, and set it up. If you remember I had that issue with it not turning on - which I assumed and received assurances to the like that it was a dead powersupply. I changed out the powersupply, and nothing. It still won't turn on. ...

A buddy of mine runs a forum similar to this one. Hes having continuous problems with a specific user that when he bans him, the user changes his IP and re-registers, I believe with a new yahoo email each time. Is there anything permanent he could do with this individual?

I would like to build a media center box... but I was wondering if there is any way to run my digital Comcast service through the box rather then the lame ass one they provide? If not Comcast, do any other service providers support Windows Media?

Can we up the storage of the UserCP inbox? I don't want to delete any messages and it's reporting as 100% full.

I'm using dual monitors and I can't get my mouse to stay within the game when I'm playing warhammer and some other games. Is there a setting in Vista (64) that I can setup to make it stop? I'm using SLI 6800 GT's thanks

The one that 50% of vent thought was the greatest? MX something. I have a Razor diamondback right now and I've really liked it, but its starting to crap out every few seconds, there is a problem with the wire going into the base of the device. Anyway what I'd be looking for is a mouse that is...

Okay I hadn't formated my computer in a while and it was lagging. processor was always at 20% with nothing running. So last night I reinstalled xp and today I installed the new browser from google, win amp, my drivers and my audio interface. And same thing. when I check my processes and what not it...

my laptop died and i need to replace it. anyone recommend one or seen a good deal?

Adobe CS3 Workstation Qty. Image Product Description Unit Price Savings Total Price 1 Western Digital VelociRaptor WD1500HLFS 150GB 10000 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive (bare drive) - OEM $189.99 1 Western Digital Caviar Black WD1001FALS 1TB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM ...

I was able to navigate stairs today!! So in a moment of joy I was going to boot up my PC and maybe play something, at least install a new router we got :) But my computer won't boot up. I changed out plugs, changed where it was plugged into, reset the switch on the back, etc, and the most it...

My ping to the xclan server and certain specific other servers has jumped to over a hundred over the past few days. Just some servers are effected. wtf? Had this problem before once, with HN server.

What Helpdesk/RDP software does your company employ? I am trying to find some descent that can help me support my large and often remote user base. Fuck, where is sliv on aim when I need him? :P I want something similiar to whatever the hell this guy uses in this fucking hilarious video: ...