Posts by ryanniedz

Hey all, I got a pc a few years back for my bro. Apparently, it's dead. He said the screen flashed 'No Sync' and so he shut it off. After a few minutes he said there was a loud crack, and a burning smell. So he pulled the plug...

and just fyi, water cooling doesn't magically dissipate heat, it will still be blown into your room by means of the radiator.

im sure there has got to be a way to get the raid drivers on a cd, i mean it is M$ who is trying to do away with floppy drives after all, you'd think they would design a way to get those raid drivers that you need to install in order to...

My guess would be hardware failure. Maybe some component is overheating. I dunno how to check it but I just wanted to put the possibility out there that it isn't MS automatically. lol

Quote: Originally Posted by DarthBeavis No CPU will be able to push them enough. Anyways, show me the comparison between two Geforce 7800 GTX 512s with liquid-cooling (which I have ready to install). Granted I only have...

I have a hard time believing anyone is stupid enough to build a computer like that, there is no need for the redundant things you have listed there. I don't care if you work for intel running simulations to design the next processors,...

I find it funny someone suggested $7k for a downpayment on a house. LOL Minimum avg housing market is like $180k right now I believe. You're 17, I'd suggest a car for $6000 then use the rest to get your insurance and stuff settled...

any boot up disk of xp has the ability to get you to command prompt, get a friend who has a pc and have him make one thats what i did when i used to have just a desktop. and i am not sure what the key combo is to get to the menu...

do you have a floppy drive? If so, you can create a startup disk in any computer running the same version of windows. Then just pop the disk into the computer and one of the options will allow you to start the computer in command...

might be ur windowns cd is not bootable, in which case i'd recommend formatting and assuming u had found everything from the old hard drive u needed. if it were me, id just go to the command prompt and format it, but maybe running...