Search results matching tag 'problem'

Need a 2" long IDE hard drive cable ...

chuckm441 — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:57:44 GMT

Hello ... I have broken the hard drive cable in my 3.5" external hard drive enclosure. It's a standard 40 pin 80 conductor IDE flat ribbon cable, but it's only 2" long -- and that's the problem. I have spent hours now trying to find a replacement, and the best I could come up with was buying the tools and connectors to make one myself. This should not be so hard to find. Many, many external hard drive enclosures have used these short cables -- they break easy when you pull them off the drive -- so they should be readily available. I checked with Cooler Master, who made mine, and they referred me to three online vendors who they said "should" have them ... and they don't.

So if anyone knows where I can find one of these, please let me know (I'm going to buy several). Any length between 1.75" and 3" ought to be good enough.

Thanks! Chuck

NEED IMPUT ON OS COMPATIBILITY VS CPU

Willhartiam — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:16:53 GMT

I am Currently in a build

AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition 3.4GHZ, 140 Watt
Biostar TA790GXE 128M Mobo, on board Radeon HD3300 Graphics
Western Digital Velociraptor 300G,
Western Digital Caviar Black WD6401AALS 640GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb,
Corsair Dominator TWIN2X2048-8500C5D Memory,
Tuniq Miniplant 950W ATX12V / EPS12V SLI Certified CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS Certified Active PFC Power Supply,
Evercool Water Cooling Sys For CPU,
4 120 Fans,
2 HD Cooling Fan,
ASUS EAH4870 DK/HTDI/1GD5 Radeon HD 4870 Dark Knight 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFire Supported,

I originally began my build with an

OCZ 600w Extreme PSU Crossfire ready
ASUS M4A78 Plus AM3/AM2+/AM2 AMD 770 ATX AMD Motherboard
Mushkin Enhanced Redline 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 1000 (PC2 8000) Dual Channel Memory

I was unable to install windows XP 64 Bit Pro But Installed 32 Bit version only after I removed the Mushkin Memory and installed G-skill DDR 2 800 Memory the asus mobo was defective onboard Lan died in 2hrs. I sent the Asus Mobo and the Mushkin memory back for rma. I tested the Drives and DDR2 800 memory checked out.

Using the Biostar Mobo, Mushkin memory, 950 watt psu, and the corsair memory I was installing Win XP 64 bit Pro which failed repeatedly at the final stage, and windows XP 32 bit also failed immediately. I removed the Asus GPU and Corsair memory and installed DDR 800 Flashed bios with the latest Bios From Biostar. Still failed in installing 64 or 32 XP OS’s But I was able to install both Vista 64 and Win 7-64 ultimate Beta Using The Radeon onboard HD3300 Graphics However after about an Hr and installing the latest drivers for the mobo I had What Appeeared to be Gpu failure. I need to know if the This CPU and AM3 CPU’S No longer Support Win XP 32 or 64 or is it possible I Have a Bad CPU and How Can I Test it CPU Temp 26 to 33 C˚ My Guess the Mobo is bad.

Please help! I'm lost....

Vredesbyrd — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 04:29:14 GMT

I have an old Dell Dimension 8100 with a 64mb Nvidia GF Geforce2 MX400/400 AGP graphics card in it. I play WoW a lot and I am really tired of horrible framerates and horrible lag whenever I get near any other players. The RDRAM for the computer is insanely expensive and the cards I have found have been reasonably priced. I took apart my compy and I have two 64mb sticks, and two 128 sticks for a total of 374mb of RAM.....uggghh... That will have to wait. I have enough money to buy a new card. I was thinking about.

Number one: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130452

Number two: http://cgi.ebay.com/nVIDIA-GeForce-FX5500-FX-5500-256-MB-AGP-3D-Video-Card_W0QQitemZ290362309330QQcmdZViewItemQQptZAU_Components?hash=item439af13ad2

I plan on sometime in the near future building a whole new rig. But, for right now I need a quick fix. These cards are both 4x/8x compatible. The first one says it needs a minimum of a 300 watt power supply, and the second says it needs a 250 watt power supply. I found a website that said my computer had a 250 watt max, but I took my computer apart and examined it and I found out I have a 330 watt max power supply. Can someone please help me. I need to know if one of these cards will work in my computer. I know a little bit about this. Enough to put it in myself and see if things match up. But, I'm not sure if there's something I'm missing. The specs for the cards are on both links. I just need to know if one or both will work. I'd like the first one, but, if the second one is the only one that will work, that'd be fine. I found a review stating that the second card worked fine in a Dell Dimension 8100 for someone, but the pic it showed in the review was of a different card. It looked totally different. Stating that it was a Nvidia GeForce FX5500 256mb AGP card. But, showing something else. Please neweggers! I need help. I need a new card now! If neither of these will work, can someone maybe suggest a card to me that they know will work? Maybe someone that has experienced the same situation.

Crysis Warhead on NVIDIA GTX 260

basaquer — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:35:39 GMT

First of all, my system specs;

Processor: Quad CPU Q9550 @ 2.83 GHz

Ram: 4 GB

OS: Vista 32 bit - SP 2

GPU: Nvidia GTX 260

The problem I'm having when running Crysis Warhead is that the in-game textures seem very ugly, even on full specs. Moderately distant objects have almost no detail, and as I approach, the texture detail only improves slightly. Up close, textures are far from impressive. Imagine zooming in on Google Earth. As you zoom in, the image becomes sharper with more detail. In my case with Crysis Warhead, the textures remain blurry. Also, leaves on the ground very noticably appear in a cone infront of me as I move. One object that stood out to me from several yards away was a deer's hoof, which was made up of about 5 very large square pixels.

I get far better graphics on Far Cry 2. Every object, near to far, is highly detailed from the instant I view it.

The fail whale visits my second build. (help...)

Aaronacious — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 23:44:50 GMT

This will be short and sweet: Basically, this is my second build, I think I did a good job until I turned it on and can't get past the darn "No Signal" on the monitor.

Here is the system:

ECS A780GM-A Ultra Am2+/Am3 AMD 780G HDMI ATX AMD Motherboard

XFX PCT96OZDFU Geforce 9600 GSO 1GB 128-bit GDDR2 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready

AMD Athlon 64 X@ 7750 Kuma 2.7 Ghz Socket Am2+ 95W Dual-Core Black Edition Processor

G.SKill 4Gb (2X2Gb) 240 pin DDr2 SDRAM DDr2 800 (Pc2 6400)

Western Digital Cavaiar SE WD1600AAjS 160GB 7200RPM SATA

Acer X203H bd Black 20'' 16:9 5ms Swivel Widescreen

Question 1: The hardrive and cd-rom drive are connected via Sata; yet, on the back of the hardrive there is a small rectangle relief with 8 copper prongs sticking out that I cannot find a connection for anywhere. Do I need to get a small female end that takes up two of those eight prongs to designate the master from the slave?

Question 2: I noticed that the motherboard has no actual built in video card and I was thinking that the video card is over-riding the vga connection to the motherboard and since I haven't installed an OS nor any drivers the over-riding its doing is canceling the use of the vga to motherboard connection? If this is true, what can I do?

Thank you guys for your help! This community great!

Need Worldwide Internet Access

Penlady — Tue, 26 May 2009 14:34:07 GMT

hi. I'm not a techie, not well versed in computer lingo, but I am in need of information about how I could get either a plug & play USB port gadget that would allow me to have satellite internet access from anywhere in the world as I travel, (I have an online business) or if that technology is not yet available, the next best thing that involves a laptop. Any information about companies that offer this service to people who live anywhere, (not just locally to the provider ) would also be helpful, and inupt from people who have used this type of technology and how reliable it is.

Thanks a ton!
Penlady

Sound "Clipping" Problem

VariXx — Mon, 18 May 2009 21:33:42 GMT

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Sorry, my thoughts are everywhere so this may be hard to read/focus on.

I’ve been building PCs for awhile now and this has got me stumpted. I’ve tried searching about the problem but I’m not getting too many results. I just got my upgrade about 3 days ago and I've been having a problem with it. My sound is "clipping" it's not a lag or studder, it's just a clipping noise. This usually happens during gaming but it does sometimes happen while I'm on my desktop doing nothing but browsing. I have no idea what could be causing it, I've tried A LOT of things that I have thought may be causing it. (See below)

There is only one thing that makes it happen less frequently, my RAM. I've switched my RAM's speed to 800 and it happens less. I've put in some older (slower speed) RAM and it does it even less frequently, but it still happens so it's not solving the problem. I'm using Logitech Z10 speakers which serve as their own USB sound card, but I have tried it with the on board sound card as well. Using Windows drivers and manufacture drivers does not effect it, nor does disabling the sound card and using just the Z10's USB audio. I am currently running Windows 7 32-bit, I switched from the 64-bit because I read that it was a problem with 64-bit, sure enough nothing was changed. I'm quite sure it isn't the OS because my old system ran 7 (both 64 and 32 bit) completely fine without this error. I will be going back to Vista in a few days but I'm pretty sure that's not going to do anything either. Power is NOT the issue, I have recently got a new power supply about a month ago, it is running 700W pure.

My new hardware is as follows:
AMD Phenom 9950 Agena 2.6GHz Socket AM2+ 125W Quad-Core Black Edition
G.SKILL 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1066 (PC2 8500) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory
GIGABYTE GA-MA770-UD3 AM2+/AM2 AMD 770 ATX AMD Motherboard

There are still two things on my mind here. The RAM, processor, and motherboard support dual channel in ganged mode, but the BIOS will not let me activate (or even see) the option. According to the manual, the only time you cannot see this option is if your hardware does not support it, which is does. I've submitted a support ticket with Gigabyte about that problem, maybe that will solve both problems.

The other thought I have is that everything is new aside from my hard drives. I'm running two hard drives, a 320GB 7200rpm purchased 2/2007 and a 500GB 7200rpm purchased 12/2007, both are WD and SATA 3GB/s running in IDE mode. The only reason I suspect my hard drives is because I've had this problem before on an older system and the solution was replacing the hardware, all of the hardware. Since the hard drives are the only hardware that isn't new, it sounds like a likely option.

Could buying a soundcard fix this problem? I’ve pretty much ruled this out because my Z-10 speakers act as their own soundcard and I’m getting the problem using them and the on board, but I haven’t completely ruled it out.

I can use any media player and any file. I've tried switching players and media type and I still get the issue. I've checked on my laptop that it's not anything wrong with the files, I actually recopied all my music and videos to my laptop to make sure they haven't recently corrupted. Internet radio also does this so I'm absolutely sure it has nothing to do with the media I'm trying to play.

Sorry for the lengthy post but I wanted to make sure I had every detail covered here. If you had any ideas whatsoever, please let me know so I can try them.

Other things I've tried:

Windows 7 64 & 32 bit
Changing RAM
Defrag all drives
Uninstalling all additional codecs (not installing when reinstalling Windows again, still had the problem before installing)
Uninstall Nero (Somewhere said it would help)
Turning down all graphic-heavy applications
Disabling on board sound
Using on board sound
Changing quality of sound in Windows
Not using Direct Sound
Using Direct Sound
Removing non-essential operating hardware (for power usage)
Disabling anti-virus
Updating Direct-X (also said it would help somewhere)
Disabling all sound enhancements in sound options
Increasing/decreasing page file

Transfer TXT Messages?

symphonia117 — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 21:47:44 GMT

I was wondering if there is a way to access my phone's flash memory and retrieve the TXT messages and possibly other files from it to my computer. I know that I can send them to my e-mail or I could use the mobile web but I don't have plans for either of those with my provider. So I was wondering if there was some program that I could use if my phone was connected via USB or something. I have a lot of locked messages that I want saved but my inbox is filled with too many of them. SO I wanted to put them on my computer.

I have an LG EnV with the newest software.

My provider is verizon.

and my comp is WIN XP SP3 if that matters.

thanks to any1 who can help!! :D

EDIT:

I discovered the program after many hours of searching. actually i discovered 3. but only 1 works with verizon phones it seems. called BitPim.

Wireless adapter issues

symphonia117 — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 20:05:48 GMT

So... I bought a new D-Link extreme gigabyte wireless n router from newegg and it didn't work. i sent it back and bought a new one from trendnet and it works fine. but ever since i used that d-link router my wireless adapter keeps saying that it detects wireless networks (in the corner near the task tray) but when i go to connect it says that says that it doesn't detect any. my router is properly configured for everything but im forced to use a wired connection on this laptop. as far as the adapter goes, its properly configured as far as i can tell. I don't, however, have any information on it. at first it said that it was a linksys adapter (gave me no model number) but in an attempt to fix it i did a driver role-back and now it says its a broadcom adapter. i have no info on it other than its 802.11g. if anyone knows how i can get information on the wireless adapter and possibly a better driver or fix my problem, id really appreciate it.

PC Build help $#&@$

atomicpa — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 23:30:36 GMT

Won't begin start up even after full parts/connector inspection.

Here's what I bought: (if you see a compatability problem, let me know... all of it should work together just fine)

GIGABYTE GA-EP45-UD3P LGA 775 Intel P45 ATX Intel Motherboard - Retail

Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 Wolfdale 3.16GHz LGA 775 65W Dual-Core Processor Model BX80570E8500 - Retail

pqi TURBO 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 667 (PC2 5400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model PQI25400-4GDB - Retail

COOLER MASTER UCP RS700-AAAAA3 700W ATX12V / EPS12V SLI Certified CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS SILVER Certified Power Supply - Retail

COOLER MASTER HAF 932 RC-932-KKN1-GP Black Steel ATX Full Tower Computer Case - Retail (she's beautiful and HUGE)

ASUS V52 92mm Sleeve CPU Cooler - Retail (plus silver Thermal comp)

I have the CD/DVD Rom drives from the old PC transfered into the new Coolmaster case. Also I just bought a new HDD a month ago and transfered it to the new tower.

Here's the deal, I got it all in. It was all hooked up properly. I push the power button on the case and it slowly revs..revs...revs.. and then shuts off. I have no idea what the problem here is. I can't find a problem anywhere. I've removed the PSU and put in another from the old PC I was replacing (550 watt). That one imediately shut down and didn't even rev. So, I systematically remove possible componants (CD/DVD drives), leds, case fans and the like to see if that's the problem, still no love.

I'm about ready to throw something here. This isn't my first build, and I've modded almost every PC I've ever owned, but this $#%@& is driving me crazy people. If anyone has a decent idea as to what is going on (or not able to go on) I'd really appreciate the assist.

Thanks