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The drivers for Windows 7 64bit are still not as good as they should be, some people can't get it even installed, but they say that when you use the older Vista 64bit drivers it just should work fine. That card has nice specs, it's PCI-E but still needs 3.5" power connector (yes, the floppydrive one ). It's also one of the better cards for under 100CAD as I presume no one really likes Creative any more...

So be it .

Thats indeed your problem. You can change those capacitors easily and keep it as an ME box for example, but on the other side you never know what more has gone south...I would however reinstall the OS again on any new, and I'm saying 100% new, system to avoid problems with drivers and to leave all the junk that has build up on the harddisk by temporary files, unused DLLs and so. Sure a program as CC is good in cleaning but nothing beats a fresh installed OS with the latest drivers and updates. Mind you that most modern setups will not support ME any more so check out or Windows 95/98/ME section . Other option is to look for some "second hand" free computers.

So you say that the media spins up from the optical drive but doesn't even read from it? Now, to talk about "only one year old Hp notebooks that are defective", than Bing on that; you will see that HP and nVidia is a deadly combination. HP loves to put in a cheap cooling system on a hothead nVidia chipset, and that's where the problems start. Reflashing your BIOS won't help at all. Your notebook is going south, call HP for warranty, on some models they give 1 year extra warranty as they know that the models they made were crap...

Kick that base, hang it against the wall. I'm going to get something like that my self soon and I will use the same curtains as the rest of my living room on each side, behind that the power and signal cable will go . Sure I'll hook it up to a HTPC .

On CPUs it will void the warranty, but it will be hard time for Intel to find out if it was OCed or not, and for just a simple CPU they won't do much to test it and just swap the part for another.To the OP: Note that in some countries you have to return the CPU with the cooler that came with it. If it was a tray version (no retail, no cooler included from Intel) you only had 1 year of warranty in most countries. I also like to say that it's not common that a CPU dies on you, most of the time it's the motherboard, if possible I would try another CPU or that "defective" CPU in another motherboard. Either way, Intel probably will replace it when you send it to them, but it will cost you some shipping and time and still have a bad motherboard at the end .

Yes, that's normal with most 3G USB modems, first it mounts the modem as a thumb drive, after that it dismounts and starts the modem it self. I wish they gave you the option just to connect the modem and use it as a modem only, I for example have to uninstall the modem every time I start up my notebook and do the install process over and over again on Windows 7. I use a Nokia by the way.

CoffeeFriend, you are cheating, you could be starting to work at my shop so sales would go up .PQI POWER Series 2GB 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Desktop Memory Model MAD42GUOE - Retail $43.99 Intel Celeron E3200 Wolfdale 2.4GHz 1MB L2 Cache LGA 775 65W Dual-Core Processor - Retail $52.99 GIGABYTE GA-G41M-ES2L LGA 775 Intel G41 Micro ATX Intel Motherboard - Retail $54.99 Total: 151.97USD With HDMI and DVI: GIGABYTE GA-G41M-ES2H LGA 775 Intel G41 HDMI Micro ATX Intel Motherboard - Retail $64.99 Total: 161.97USD and now the best bang for your money: PQI POWER Series 2GB 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Desktop Memory Model MAD42GUOE - Retail $43.99 Intel Celeron E3200 Wolfdale 2.4GHz 1MB L2 Cache LGA 775 65W Dual-Core Processor - Retail $52.99 GIGABYTE GA-G41M-ES2L LGA 775 Intel G41 Micro ATX Intel Motherboard - Retail $54.99 XFX HD-465X-YAF2 Radeon HD 4650 512MB 128-bit DDR2 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFire Supported Video Card - Retail $49.99 Total: 201.96USD Any way, you can't go wrong on both setups, AMD or Intel, the budget market part is already squeezed out as much as it can. I just ordered some of those G41 mobos with the E3200. I'll be OCing them and that's why I went with the Intel setup, later on I will add some HD4650/512 cards to the setup for simple game play, better OC, and freeing up the shared memory. For my main setup I ordered an AMD X2 240, 8GB of DDR3, HD4730 and GIGABYTE GA-MA790FXT-UD5P (Better to get a good mobo so I don't need to buy a new version of Windows 7 (Even with the retail version it is pain in the hole here in Mexico) when I need to change my mobo).

Note that there are new motherboards with G41 chipsets and that do support DVI as well, and HDMI 1.1 some times and also hard to find (no idea of 1.3, have to look that up, but sound could be provided by the HD soundchip). A DDR3 mobo will cost still some 20 to 25USD more in most cases, plus the X2 240 is also a bit more expensive, if it needs to be cheap, compatible and good, the E3200 with G41 and DDr2 is still okay, just fork out directly some 3 to 4GB of DDR2 RAM that is about the same price still as DDR3 or a few bucks more. That AMD setup is cool, and just 50 bucks more or so... but I thought it must be cheap and for 50 bucks I can buy a ATI HD4650 .

SLGTL 2.6 GHz E5300 2 800 MHz 45 nm R0 2 MB LGA775 06 That one also has VT, but there are 2 other E5300 models that don't have them, E5300 is about the price of the E5200 but still I would make sure you pick the right part number .

It's just marketing mostly, in this case the core is based on the same design and on 45nm, the only big diference you will find between them is the cache; Celeron 1MB, Pentium 2GB and the FSB. Now, the realword performance between those isn't big unless you go to higher CPU speeds, let's say above 4GHz, in that case the memory and chipset will let you down. SLGU9 2.80 GHz E6300 2 1066 MHz 45 nm R0 2 MB LGA775 06 SLxxx 2.60 GHz E5300 2 800 MHz 45 nm R0 2 MB LGA775 06 SLAY7 2.50 GHz E5200 2 800 MHz 45 nm M0 2 MB LGA775 06 SLB9T 2.50 GHz E5200 2 800 MHz 45 nm R0 2 MB LGA775 06 SLB7N 2.20 GHz E2210 2 800 MHz 45 nm M0 1 MB LGA775 06 SLGU5 2.40 GHz E3200 2 800 MHz 45 nm R0 1 MB LGA775 06 Note that the E2210 is also named as a Pentium while it has 1MB Cache.

I would change just a few things: Motherboard: GA-G41M-ES2L, no Gbit network but it does have an updated GPU (Not that you will see much about that), the G31 is getting close to "End of Life". It also features a faster GPU core (up to 800MHz), OpenGL 2.1 and DX10 (I know, not much use with XP ). CPU: E3200, 45nm also, just as good in many cases as the more expensive E5200 or E6300 (A whole 10 to 30USD... but it's something).

Now that the E3200 came out, Intel could have a nice CPU there for OCing, however, you always need a video card to get things run smooth with a modern OS. So, when it comes to budget, AMD would be the way to go, look for example at the Athlon II 240, 245 or their low priced quad. Combine that with a DDR3 based mobo with 785G mobo from Gigabyte and all will run even smooth on a modern OS WITHOUT an extra video card. i5 Is nice but still not cheap enough in my eyes, not even the upcoming series. Like Coffeefriend said; You are talking about people that don't do building for living, I can also mess up a board in a few seconds . For real, I had that board my self for a long time, I even tried to kill it by flashing it wrong, OCing it way over the top, and still it would not die on me...

That's what we asked the topic starter to do by PM, plus to try it on another PC too .

Your problem isn't the screen refresh rate but the native resolution of that screen, set it to 1920*1080 and you will see that the image is like it should be, and 60Hz on most LCDs is just normal .

yes it's VIA as it has 3 memory sloth like others already said. If you could give us the text that is placed on the motherboard like brand and model number than we could help you a bit with the right drivers for video and sound, but the VIA all-in-one drivers work on all VIA boards for general chipset functions .

Buy some better junk for less on eBay? When you started with your post the first that came up that the whole network subsystem got messed up, but you already knew that and you reinstalled, you even changed the modem so it would connect to the net again. I would pull out that modem and see if the CPU load still will be 100%, it must be some bad I/O so it could be some bad cables to the harddrive or just a big mess in signaling on the motherboard (DMA lines messed up or so). Always check for bad capacitors too and if the south bridge gets to hot to touch they probably connected some MP3 player or phone to it that pulled way to much power. Let us know what you found out .

Just a quick post: try to reverse the metal part that is shown in photo 2, that should fix the problem, done it many times before and I think it's posible with that model as well. Else you can try to de-magnetize the parts or just keep a CD in. I hope that I have time a bit later to go into detail .

No one known until you post what -X- asked for, so please post that information here.

Hello Frank, welcome to the forum. That Asus card uses a nVidia FX 5200 chip so drivers could be found easily. What OS are you using on that computer? 2000 or XP? by the way, the FX 5200 performs better than the G450 from Matrox and supports DirectX 9.0b by hardware while the G450 does 8.1.

You got it fixed?Well, first thing that came up in my mind was that most ATI cards use a jumper to set PAL or NTSC, check if it's on 60Hz NTSC. Second, and you already got that, install that CCC, it's useful . Any way, check that jumper .

I would say it's a question of single or double sided RAM and the chip count. What you bought now, does it have 4 or 8 chips? And if there are 4 chips are they placed on the same side of the PCB (- read "memory")?

At that resolution and texture setting yes, just look back to Doom 3 (check out how much that uses, and that years ago) .

That's true for sure.

Dat klopt, for now that is, until games use the multiple cores better. For the OP; All AMD AM3 Athlon II at this moment lack the L3 Cache, the AM2+ versions do have the L3 Cache but are based on the Phenom design (not the Phenom II).