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Ge Force 7600GT is a good price nowadays. The 8500 isnt a bad choice either. Don’t get any card under the 500 series though… so it’s X5XX or better. and nvidia pwns the fuck out of ati, and i don’t care what ANYBODY has to say about that, so typing is just a waste of time. Fuck the ATI 2900… shit needs 250 watts by itself.
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because some programs force themselves to stay open. also, if the program gets stuck in a system based algorithm, you can’t knock it out without killing explorer first.
If you have something running that you don’t want to be running, go to run, type “msconfig”, and then set that application to not start with the system. If it’s just a random application you were having problems with at one instance, then that’s just one of the issues of using Windows, where it gives you the option to kill processes that you can’t actually kill.
Can anyone recommend a nice light-weight pdf reader to use? Getting tired of Adobe Reader crashes. :lame:
Foxit Reader may be what you’re looking for. Funny enough, I’ve found Adobe Reader 8 to be pretty stable and fast, but ymmv and all.
Yeah, Foxit is pretty much the de facto PDF reader if you don’t want to use Adobe. Adobe 8 isn’t as slow as previous versions, but it still doesn’t match Foxit.
Works great, thanks.
Can anyone recommend a good screen cleaner for my laptop?
The thing collects dust like a magnet, but I can easily wipe all that off with a cloth.
Well fuck.
I turn on my computer after returning from a tournament this past weekend and right at the start up (where it says Windows XP and there’s a little loading bar underneath it) there’s this whole mess of ugly boxes and graphical crap. Like you know what your television looked like when you played an old NES game and it wasn’t working, everything is just blocks and shit?
That’s what my screen looks like now. It loads up to XP, then immediately goes into power save mode, then turns on again, then goes to power save, back and forth a couple of times until it either eventually loads up XP or just stays in power save all together.
I’ve checked to make sure the video card is in securely, and the computer is no more then a year old, with the monitor being under 3 months old, so what’s going on? Is my video card dead? Do I need to buy a new one?
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Did you really need to post here and make your own thread where you just copied the exact same post? 
I replied on your other thread.
Okay I feel stupid asking this but My computer has crashed 5 times this week and I have not the slightest clue why because I run virus check on it rather often and I dont run ridiculous games on my computer either(Mame is about as hardcore as my computer goes.)
I have about a gig of ram and a athlon 64 3700 if thats any clue.
Any suggesstions to my problem?
Do you get any kind of error message or does the system just lock up? When you say “crashed”, do you mean that it’s giving you the BSoD, rebooting, or just freezing? Are there any applications in particular that you’ve been running when this has happened? Basically just provide any other information that you can. Just saying that “it crashed” doesn’t really give anyone a lot to work with.
Also, if it happens again sometime in the near future, attempt to open up the Task Manager (Ctrl + Alt + Del), click on the Processes tab, and check the memory usage. Just look and see if anything is ridiculously high.
I’m having some problems connecting 3 pc’s to a modem and 8 port switch. The main pc, that plugs into the first port is the only one that’s on-line. The other 2 can’t get a signal. I’m guessing i’ll have to do some networking?
It just freezes. I would try to open up task manager and It wont even accept my command.I basically restart it by unplugging it becuase it wont accept anything else. This has happened when I was scanning for viruses and when I tried to run an emulator. I hope that helps any
Sounds like it’s overheating.
Data CD won’t read in my laptop, possible problems?
Laptop’s relatively new so I don’t think it’s the drive itself unless it came defective.
You’d be surprised. sorry to burst your bubble but, it’s not uncommon on new laptops. good example would be the lance Armstrong special edition by hp good specs, horrible optical drive. people coming in left & right on having it repaired
It was able to read a CD for setting up internet at my school so I assumed it was ok.
Does it still read other data CDs? Does the data CD that won’t work run on other computers?
i got a twofer right now.
my friend gave me a malfunctioning pc.
----the actual pc--------
first thing i noticed is it “crashes” at the CMOS screen.
it gives the POST one beep saying everything is okay then shows the intel processor info and hangs. i tried a ps/2 and usb keyboard pounding DEL to get to the BIOS screen and nothing… i can see the fans still running and the PSU is running/its fans are spinning so im thinking a corrupted CMOS…is that correct? how can i fix that if even?
----the harddrive/os----
put it as a slave in my pc, CHKDSK’ed and i can read/see the files on it. tried to run it as a master. gave me that windows crash screen “how would you like to boot window? safe mode safe mode with command prompt…etc.etc.” and INSTANT BSOD. no matter the option i chose. im checking the integrity of the harddrive and all that jazz. any tips on how to fix this?
thanks in advance.
Use a program called troubleshooter or microscope & run diags for a day to see what’s going on. Usual thing we did @ work while multi taksing other comp probs.