Recent content by networkgeek

Holy thread-hijack Batman! went from overheating to something completely different. :P

being that it is five years old... has the OS ever been formatted? If not , then I suggest you back up everything you can , then do a complete format and reinstall. it will run better then it has in a long time I am sure. doesnt hurt to reinstall every year or so. gets rid of bit rot and...

nvm my option wont be on top if game is full screen

can you go into bios and disable boot by usb? there should be an option to boot with usb devices. try that and see if it helps any

also with most distros of linux you are running as a limited user and the system asks for permission to temp log in as root to do system tasks.

I agree as well. with the age of the board it could very likely be bad. one way to test is take out ALL ram and try a boot. if the speaker doesnt beep at you with a bios warning then it isnt running the POST test . ie bad board. that usually works

here is what I suggest. download Drive fitness test and burn to a cd Download IBM - Hitachi Drive Fitness Test 4.14 - Quick, reliable method to test SCSI and IDE hard disk drives - Softpedia boot with it. with the raid disabled. run checks on the drives individually. it will tell you...

I would return that psu. most companies have no issue taking something back within 30 days.

maybe you bumped something when you took out the hdd. you did make sure to turn on the pc first right?! (stupid question but never hurts to ask LOL) try taking out components and reseat them. also try taking out the motherboard battery , leaving it out for a few minutes then put it back in...

Re: Outlook problems: exchange server not responding and not responding after 10 minu is it possible that you can have them connect directly to their modems, bypassing the router, to test?

try running memtest with one stick of memory at a time in different slots till you stop getting an error. then you will know which one is bad

yeah pretty sad that you have to turn off a major security feature to get things to work without annoying you. oh well. leave it to MS to mess stuff up!

yes. and you can partition it in different filesystems for different OS's as well. IE linux etc. it is just an addition to the filetable that "divides" the drive up.

hehe aka hurricane kick. "Tornado Whirlwind Foot" I loved ryu and ken. chun li was pretty cool too. always thought her victory yell sounded like . hahaha you suck! LOL

ditto to what he said . I just wanted to add, DO NOT use this computer for any purchases online etc or anything with personal info until you get it cleaned. most likely there are keyloggers too .