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That's about right, so, what did you do to get this output now? I think it was some crazy buffering in RAM.

What PCI video card are we talking at the moment? 5200FX or 440MX or so? What games would not work? I can't seem to understand why it would work on PCI and not on a PCI-E video card.

Windows will install the standard WDM HD drivers, those won't work with Realtek or SigmaTel most of the time. In your case you have the SigmaTel soundchip so download this and unpack, not install, the .EXE package with winRAR or similar, point Windows to that directory when you upgrade the driver. Post back when it worked please.

There are some of us that always ask what would be the best brand on buying a notebook. It seems that Lenovo is coming back with an aggressively priced Essentials line as they were driven away from the five top notebook companies. Personally I like their new cheaper line although you won't find any i5 to i7 in it, but does have some powerful AMD CPUs in its list. Samsung however, is doing it amazingly well and compared with last year, there part in total sold notebooks went up 14.6% over the first quarter of 2010. With this, Apple and Sony are left behind by Samsung, putting Samsung at number seven of the world's notebook assemblers. Although notebook sales went worldwide down by 5.4% in the first quarter of 2010, Fujitsu´s sold 17.4% more notebooks the first quarter of 2010, and thus, making it the fastest growing brand at the moment, but still can be found at number ten of the world's notebook assemblers. Total sales of mobile computers however, went up 42.2% compared to last year, which is a big growth.

I hope so much that you did try to reinstall Windows before posting here.

Yes okay, but when you have a dead motherboard you need to know how to look into micro-electronics, and as more than half of your components are semi-conductors, you will need a lot of professional tools and knowledge to hunt the defect down, note that people go to school for 4 years to learn such a profession.So, most of us just swap out parts with the screwdriver like VideoRipper said. It's also no use to find a problem on a motherboard that is 3 years old that will cost you 5 hours to fix with 10k Euro at least of tools (If you build the tools your self you could save there). Before you had those Serial and parallel port testers for example, but on modern motherboards you will not even find any low-level I/O like that any more.

Ow boy, here it comes!You know the drill, we all have our crystal balls ready!

Naa, never saw them on a AM2 board, but you never know indeed.

+1 Just when the CPU kicks in and it's not idle any more, it will pull the most juice from the PSU. If the PSU can't deliver that juice it will result in a reset or an unstable system. Now I must say that a "LE-1640" from AMD doesn't pull much, but enough to get the PSU down . Other than that, if you are using a nVidia 6100/6150 chipset, it could be the mobo as well...

At that time, 2 years back, you bought them for cheap indeed, almost for the cost price if not less. Memory makers had HUGE overstock in any kind of memories so they had to push the stock for low prices. About 9 months ago, things changed as stock was almost getting out, and it was time for them to set the prices at normal costs, thus selling them for the prices you see now. In general, you pay 80 to 100% over the price it would cost 1 year ago.

Check out the places with the red market dots, there should be some plastic clips that can be flipped up (without braking them, they are poli-carbonate so they can snap). Looks like the cooler is made by Artic Cooling so most likely there is one clip on each side of the fan (the one market in teh middle). I would remove the cooler indeed with the 4 screws and apply new paste on the GPU.

The HD 4650 would do the trick, but sound over HDMI (1.3) isn't that smooth on that model. Take a look at the next generation HD 5550 passively cooled card for a Home Theater PC or a HD 5670 for a simple gaming system, but then, if it's a gaming card you are looking for in the £60 range, than check out the HD 5750.

Woops, my bad (taking out the holder(s) with one hand ). . At the local hardware stores they are mostly out of duct-tape these days now the kidnappers have to register their Mexican mobile-phones. Looks like they didn't us the reference cooler, so I think it's a plastic cover that snaps in place with some plastic hooks into the Alu frame, now, about what model are we talking here?

What I would do is to use the heat-sink as it is and mount a 80mm fan on it with tie-wraps, that would be an easy and fast way, but would cool also better than the stock fan (I presume it's 60mm).

Yes indeed, I've never used a program like that but I can imagine that some more "novice to computing" people do.As it's not Windows 7 related, I'll move this to the software forum.

It's just the latest AMD driver version 1.2.0.125, I got it from the Gigabyte site but it should be the same from AMD directly.

I had that too, the AMD ACHI drivers are fooling windows 7 . I see now after some updates that it's back to 5.9.

Logitech made a patch for it's mice some 10 years ago or so, they were just filtering and smoothing out the mouse movement. Generic windows drivers will not do that. Just wanted to ad that, ow, and guys, cleaning the lens won't solve much in this case .

You might check out vLite, I think you will find there what you are looking for. Your question isn't making much sense as it is now, ask it in a different way. Why use two versions of the same OS any way? I would leave 32bit and go only with 64bit.

I don't think this is windows 7 related, it's flash related as youtube uses flash to play video, so, you are getting a FLV file in your temporary directory that you can open with flash. Update your Adobe flash player to the latest version.

So, what parts do you have already besides the Q6600?

Indeed, ditch the ECC-RAM idea. I think I know why you brought it up as older times told you to use ECC-RAM in a Server, but that was 10 years ago so say welcome to the modern world we live in now, hell, not even google is using ECC-RAM in their servers . Now, the 2 PCI-E 16x (electricaly?) sloths is indeed a good question from coffeefiend. So, you have a Q6600 you want to re-use? Get a P45 based mobo (GIGABYTE GA-EP45T-USB3P is a great deal at some 130USD) for that with DDR3.

Why does it need to be ECC RAM? You know you will need a server/workstation chipset for that.

You can add any signal over a power-line as long as it's not the frequency of the fase. There is as much loss as with a not powered cable, however, the interference of other "signals" is much higher. There must be a wiki about this, hold on... EDIT: There you go!

For what I know about those Dell notebooks: you need to replace or reprogram a 8 pin CMOS on the motherboard, this requires removing the CMOS as it's soldered onto the motherboard. On eBay they sell those chips if you don't have the program or CMOS programmer.