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We are just people that love our job .Now, you know how to use a multimeter, and the Power Supply Unit has way larger pins to test on. To make a contact between the green and black wire (power"OK"/power"ON") you can use just a simple paperclip. it's really easy even for some one that never did it before.

Now, that was a long read . So, if it's not the OS that is messing up the things (Jaclaz suggested it I saw), than is must be indeed something with the voltage. It's not needed to check every pin directly, I would just start to check the 5VSB on the PSU: Disconnect the PSU form every thing inside the PC and connect pin PS_ON# (The only green that you will have) and the COM pin (any black line) next to it to power up the PSU. Check voltage over pin 5VSB and any COM pin. I think that the USB got overloaded many times before. I have seen this on many i845 chipset based systems, especial from Dell and HP, and I would not rule out that it could happen on other chipsets too. On older PSUs the 5VSB would be rated at 2.0A and on newer CPUs it would be rated at 2.5A (current standard). If you have another PSU, just plug that one in to see what it does.

yes well...

Must be the other side of the world . Here in the Americas they are the same price. I must say that I look more at the DX11 benchmarks myself but you are right about that card; nVidia puts on some aggressive marketing that could save their behinds.

No you didn't, YOU AXED IT! The new 460 from nVidia is indeed a nice card, just in between the 5830 and 5850 from ATI, but at the price of an 5830 (for now).

Did replacing the Power Supply Unit help?

Coolermaster would give you a better bang for the buck, now, the model you are pointing too is outdated and replaced by Zalman CNPS10X FLEX High Performance CPU Heatsink - CNPS10X-FLEX-120.

Or build one directly? Take an Atom N430 with 80+ cert. PSU and it won't use much power, downside is that it has only one PCI and two SATA. Also, be sure to have your network ready for 1Gbit network; anything on wireless G/N or 10/100mbit would give you horrible speeds like many times said before.

The ones you can leave blanc for an answer?

Indeed, why conqueror her twice? Although, we have been finishing the same game twice before ...Now I must say that what I read above mostly counts for "Western Culture" and not for the rest of the world . now, also don't expect to understand women when you are a man.

Ow yes they do have L3 cache, you just need to unlock it. Phenom has it enabled just factory default and isn't much faster because of that compared to an Athlon II. You haven't seen Chinese women doing that, I'm sure they can do it even in half my time. Yeah for now, or you must have a SSD in there, Windows will start to boot slower over time.

Yup, that's my 15 minutes build.I do that with every build I sell.

That beats the logic. Really, no time? No time to take 2 hours to put some part together? Hell, I do it even in 15 minutes but then, I'm building PCs for over 14 years for a living and some 8 years more before that as a hobby . Now, anything you buy as a "junker kit" (like it's called now in this topic) will be trash by the time you "upgrade". You also will kick your friend, who has a computer shop, in the nuts (he could have helped you to build something nice for it's price). Hell, why not by the stuff at his shop and pay 30 or 40 quid, I'm sure he could match a price here and there. Just my 0.02.

Optical drives, wow, isn't that outdated technology already? Now I must say that I just have one external USB2.0 DVD-RW for all the PC's I have. I would go for option 2 that you posted by the way.

Onboard video for now indeed if there is no budget for a video card at the moment, and if a quad core is "needed", go for it and start with 2GB DDR3 and buy the other RAM later when needed. What is missing is a hard disk.

So, you went ahead and bought that bare-bone system? Any way, get yourself an AMD base motherboard 870 motherboard or if you don't have the cash a 770 (without USB 3.0 and 6Gbps SATA). Go for the DDR3 for sure! DO NOT BUY those barebones if you didn't have already!

If you are willing to pick out other components than you pointed to, we can help you out. Both systems like Coffeefiend already said are based on the cheapest motherboards that are out there. Coffee thinks they are ECS, I think they are Foxconn, but both are the trash of the computer market so to say . The nVidia chipset is a no-go; burns too hot and life expectations are too short.Get yourself a simple brand name case with an 80+ cert. PSU, with some ASUS or Gigabyte AMD based, up to 5200MHz bus, motherboard, plug in a AMD Athlon X4 with DDR3 and you have nice system to build on. Check out AMD chipsets with an 8xx southbridge. need help with it? Ask .

I was almost sure that it could not be done within MS Office; it can't be done.

That was quick, thank you for posting back.

To get sound trough HDMI you need at least a TV and Computer that support both HDMI 1.3. Your nVidia 7100 video card doesn't support HDMI 1.3. Use your analog sound out on your computer to get sound to your TV, that's the ONLY way. This is a Hardware related question, moving topic .

That's obviously not the case, especially when you take a few decades old technology that you like to hook up with to days technology. If it works on Vista it's for 99% sure it will on 7 trough forcing the driver to continue installing could be needed, but... All those that you see on eBay at the moment are made up to XP ONLY, no matter what the box-pushers say there; all use the same chip with the same drivers.

I've only seen it as a result of a not well installed machine; a machine that hangs at the shut down. So, on next startup you get that recovery function of windows, windows does a step back to a installation that was shutting down well. I don't recall that you can disable the recovery console function as it's before Windows even starts. Sorry for not using the right terms, it only happened once or twice on a machine that I was upgrading.

About what ribbon are you talking about? The one in Office 2007/2010 apps.? EDIT: Moved to the Office section by... some one else but me .

Keep it with XP indeed, 512MB less the 1 to 8MB it uses for the video card isn't much but will do for windows 7 home basic. Main problem is the basic video drivers that come with Windows 7; that driver would perform slow with the Intel Extreme Graphics 2. Other chipset functions are well supported I must say so is the soundchip. The newer models do indeed, but there are loads left with windows XP who are sold cheap. As far as I can tell, Windows XP will stop to being shipped in October this year as Windows 7 would be released one year before that.