Locked Bios
Hi I have an old Lenovo thinkpad x60 and I am trying to change the boot sequence but what ever I try I cannot get into setup as a locked padlock appears in the top left hand part of the screen.There is...
View ArticleCpu question
Hey everyone, I was wondering, what makes a CPU different from others? As in an AMD Kaveri quad core has the same amount of cores as a 3570k. Almost the same amount of cache. So why does the 3570k...
View Article[SOLVED] Server won't boot
I have a server running on a supermicro X9DRL-iF motherboard, with 2 intel xeon E5-2620v2 processors. I recently decided to change the chassis because it was absolutely atrocious, and then I figured...
View Articlemotherboard
I have an ASUS M5A99FX PRO R2.0 motherboard and i want to know if it will work with a Corsair CML16G3M2A 1600 Vengeance 16GB DDR3 600Mhz memmory
View ArticleASUS replacement board:case short?
When the motherboard on my XP machine died I decided to replace it. When I try to power up the power light blinks on and off once and the fan turns a couple of times and then stops. Could this be a...
View ArticleAMD FX-8000 Series
Does anyone know the real life benefits to getting cpu from the AMD FX-8000 series. I know i can always look up benchmarks, but that doesn't really tell me much in real life situations. I was planning...
View ArticleNeed help deciding the best cheap motherboard
Ello, I've been searching online for the best medium-entry gaming PC or media PC and found a build that I'd like to try. However, I'm really worried about the motherboard because of the bad reviews on...
View ArticleP.C will not boot after power out.
The electricity in my house shut down, the P.C was turned on, now when I start the system it will not reach the windows screen and says "no Drives detected" on start up. BIOS recognizes the drive but...
View Articleboot up with W7 New Mobo fitted
Hi and good morning My Motherboard a (Intel D845 GERG2 ) give up on me , it was running windows 7 , the problem I have is that I have installed a new Motherboard a ( Gigabyte GA-73PVM-S2) but I am not...
View ArticleGigabyte motherboard sub-types
I am looking into buying a gigabyte motherboard and I see the same first part of the model of it but the last part changes. I have seen very similar things with this. For example an ending of UD4P. My...
View Articlenew WD HD not seen by XP SP3
Upgrading storage in my Compaq Presario SN2030NX. 200GB original drive is good in SATA slot 1. New Western Digital WDBH2D5000ENC-NRSN 500GB drive powers up but in SATA slot 2 it is seen by BIOS, not by...
View ArticleX7SBi motherboard
I have just received a 3 year old server computer. Its original hard drive has crashed and there are a few issues I am struggling with. First off I tried using installing a new hard drive with a 32 bit...
View ArticleAM3 socket & AM3+ mobos
Hello, I have the following: HP Pavillion p6624y purchased new 11/2010 Mobo: N-Alvorix-RS880-uATX (Alvorix) Manufacturer: Foxconn Form Factor: uATX Chipset: AMD 785G Memory Sockets: 4xDDR3 Front side...
View ArticleE machine 1352G-41W heatsink replacement
I have a E machine 1352G-41W desktop. I just replaced my processor with a Phenom AMD X4 840 processor and my CPU fan cycles on and off within a few minutes. The motherboard I am using is a DA061L-3D ....
View ArticleProcessor Comparison
Hi :wavey: I want to know why ARK | Intel® Core⢠i3-4010U Processor (3M Cache, 1.70 GHz) is more expensive than ARK | Intel® Core⢠i3-4100M Processor (3M Cache, 2.50 GHz) ? Also, how do I compare...
View ArticleIs this Bios cumulative or do I need to run one at a time
Please see the BIOS updates, 2.0 through 2.2, here. Satellite L355-S7902 Support | Toshiba I need the virtualization support, which is in 2.1 . Every single page for the bios update lists every change...
View ArticleBoot startup
First of all - hello to everyone. I'm having a rather "small" problem with staring up my PC. Until saturday, everything was fine, when my brother came over with his PC to plug in my PSU to his PC...
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CPU Temps too high?
Hey guys I recently got my PC back together and have been using it normally, with the most strenuous task being some gaming. I ran CPUID HWMonitor this evening just to see what my temps looked like and...
View Articlecompatibility
according to my current configuration i'm using intel i5 2320 with gigabyte h61m-ds2 and nvidia gt630 4gb.. but now i wana upgrade it to i5 4670k and nvidia gtx 660 so would they be compatible to my...
View Article[SOLVED] Processor Comparison
Hi :wavey: I want to know why ARK | Intel® Core⢠i3-4010U Processor (3M Cache, 1.70 GHz) is more expensive than ARK | Intel® Core⢠i3-4100M Processor (3M Cache, 2.50 GHz) ? Also, how do I compare...
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