Posts by GoRacers

Quote: Originally Posted by dandelion_love I was hoping someone here would have some sort of solution to this problem. Get a drum set: But seriously, I have a CD drive go out on a laptop a couple...

Thanks qhn, that fixed the problem. My daughter just got a new Dell PC and the same thing happened to her today so I am going to try the same steps on it. Seems Vista is having problems (SHOCKING!)

For some reason my DVD-RW and DVD-ROM disappeared on 8/07. Drives power on and open/close but are otherwise non-responsive and no drive letters are assigned in Windows Explorer but they are identified correctly in Device Manager with...

Quote: Originally Posted by LynnCC so I'm not sure if I made a mistake on the 880 GTS(320) video card this year, I should of went with the 640 what monitor do you think I should get? I hope it's not to late to...

Also take a close look at the mobo maker's website as most of the big hairy ugly issues usually involve a mobo/bios problem. Asus has decent forums for common issues (I have not dealt with any others, I assume they do also).

Sheesh, I am not even sure what was in the old computer. I know it was a 1.8 GHZ PC and I think it was a nvidia 5500 or something like that. Was a 2x AGP as that was all the mobo would support *blush* The P180 case is awesome with...

About Vista: As I am sure most of you guys are, I am the 'computer guy' to 95% of the people I know. Since I am expecting to get bombarded with Vista questions starting anyday I figured I'd get a head start on it. And I thought Aero...

Rather than feeding Dell or HP once again I decided to tackle building my own PC. I am very happy I decided to do so as assembling the components was actually very enjoyable. Anyway, here are my components and I will have pics coming...

Processors have bottomed out. The E6600 is only ~$230 and will handle practically ANYTHING you can throw at it and overclocks like a champ. If you are waiting for a price drop on processors of $100 you will be waiting a long time IMO. ...

Processors have bottomed out. The E6600 is only ~$230 and will handle practically ANYTHING you can throw at it and overclocks like a champ. If you are waiting for a price drop on processors of $100 you will be waiting a long time IMO. ...