Mine started doing the same thing out of the blue. The screen dims and closing and opening the lid resets it but it can quickly dim again afterwards.
How does one fix this?
Just recently my I do not even know how old 5620's display started acting up.
What happens is that 'randomly' the screen dims. I can still see barely.
So I tried to format it fresh (xp pro) and even during the installation (after...
Yeah looks good as in that it all should work together. Perhaos you'd consider buying DDR2 ram as I think DDR will not be in dual channel. Not too sure about intel's sets
Perhaps a 256-bit vid card would be nicer too. I rather have...
Well, it saves some work having a floppy drive when ya wanna install the SATA drive. You will only get a floppy disk with it.
On the PSU: It is one of the most important parts of a computer. It can make or break it. If you go for the...
I keep windows and apps on c which is a 20gb partition me thinks (out of 80). Then I have a 4gb partition swap file only. Then one partition for games only and lastly one partition for music/downloads and documents etc.
Did you check if your memory was tested and proved compatible with your MSI motherboard?
www.msi.com.tw forums
I'd buy pc3200. eg from msi website: - Supports single memory channels, DDR 400/333/266 without ECC...
MSIs forum has some great informative threads from end-users with the suggestions and advice which definitely helped me deciding on what to get.
eg. this sticky thread on AMD64 and PSUs:...