Recent content by andrewsvalesen

I have an alienware m9700i. there has been no KNOWN physical damage done to this laptop, but after letting my little brother use the laptop I noticed that it was a bit moist after I got it back... I honestly don't believe it to be water damage, but we'll see. but let me tell you what is...

I CONSTANTLY get blue screens in my HTPC ( Temps are perfect.) The blue screen error is Memory_Management, and occasionally I'll get a bad pool sector, which I think is cause from all the bluescreens. Anyways, I began troubleshooting yesterday, and of course I tried reseating the ram. The wierd...

No way!!! The witcher is Awesome! I've beaten the game twice. Great graphics too! Especially the faces in teh sewers! It's a great game...

Can anyone suggest a good cpu? I think the Phenom 940 would be a bit of an overkill cpu. should i just get teh cheapest quad?

My dad needs an HTPC, love the guy to death, but his taste in PC parts is seriously skewed. He asked me to put a "good 'ole' voodoo in his HTPC. Seriously. lol. Anyways, to the point. I'm in the process of picking out parts, and I recently won a EAH4350 Silent ASUS Vid Card. Not bad for an...

Is that really the best, resource wise? hmm I may.. oh no, google chrome isnt available for win 2000. =[[

an extremely slow laptop the dell cpx j650gt, I believe it has a 450mhz processor and 256 mb of ram. I know firefox is out of the question, but what is something that is an improvement over IE? i am HOPING to owatch youtube videos or streaming videos with my laptop..

Just wondering, right now I see now problems with this card that has lasted me so long. But what would be a significant upgrade from the current card? e8400 4gb DDr2 Ram I know right now, gaming wise, the e8400 (at 4.0ghz) has no significant cpu upgrade. Is there a new reigning must-have...

No need for a flame war. Was looking at the AMD Deneb 965 BE For 185$ from what I hear, it has great Price/performance ratios. Anyone recommend anything else in the $185-200 Category range? I'm looking specifically for great Price/Performance. Are the i5's THAT much better? thanks and happy...

BUMP!!! 0x0000007b I get this error when I went to a website ON MY OTHER LAPTOP, and now I have a blue screen now. What on earth is happening? Is there any possible way i can run chkdsk without any other software involved? my gf doesnt have a thumb drive to put any data on it.

so i just run /chkdsk /r or something like that? I'm assuming it goes straight to the dos command prompt

call me naive, but how does this work? Ive never heard of it before.. putting this on a usb will allow me to boot into windows??

turned my laptop on this morning, and it blue screened. I can't get into safe mode. I think it might be my harddrive, is there a way i can run chkdsk or something without the use of a cd rom drive? Or XP cd? I dont have a dvd rom

wait, im confused, are you saying that this motherboard can fit in the case?!!

i did a google search and the first one was this giant board. Theres no possible way that could be th same mobo right? that thing is incredibly ancient.. but what i was saying is, maybe the motherboard was from one of the newer dell models? perhaps they;re atx?