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I'm with jaggy about the 8800 Ultra. That ATI 4870 is so expensive you'd be better off going with a high end nvidia card. To be fair, I haven't used an ATI card in 5+ years. Secondly, I dont know why someone would suggest for you to go with less RAM. My honest suggestion is to stick with 4GB...

Do you know any other details of the PSU? Like maybe the model number? Or a even a link to where you got the mobo so we can see the power supply. You gave conflicting descriptions of your hdd. You said its SATA, but it runs on an IDE cable. SATA IDE

I would say your hdd is definitely defective, however it is possible you have other issues as well. What you're going to have to do is replace the hdd (hdds are not repairable) and reinstall Windows. If you are having no more problems, great! If not, post back here and we will help you out...

*phew* Long post :-P Well, it sounds like you've covered most of your bases. At this point, if I were you, heres what I would try: If your computer came with onboard video, take out your 9800 and boot with vga cable plugged to onboard. Take out all the RAM and power it on. The unit beep...

I'm a little unclear as to whether you have one hdd or two and if one or both hdds are not showing up. Please clear this up for me. There are a few different possibilities for why your hdd is not showing up; Some more likely than others. Here's what I would try: Download a hdd test such as...

The system you posted looks fine to me, but I dont play very graphics-intense games. A few questions for you: What games are you planning on playing? Who makes the PSU (power supply... this is going to largely determine if this unit is good enough for you) Is there a make or model of this...

You shouldn't need to get that particular part number. Check this list for drives that should work fine with your computer. Newegg slim dvd burner I think you can find a manual on the replacement of the drive on toshiba's website.

Is there a BSOD before the computer restarts or any other errors? Any other differences between normal operation of your computer and just before the reboot? Usually when a computer overheats, it shuts down instead of restarting. However, it is worth looking out for. Some things to check...

Oops... I didn't actually mean to put the list in a particular order. I should have paid more attention to detail. But yeah, the main points of the list are to check for bad capacitors (mobo), PSU, and RAM. I agree though, failing PSU seems very likely to be the problem here.

Sorry, I'm not going to email you the answer but hopefully you look at this thread again. Your problem is absolutely not associated with malware (virus and/or spyware). However, there are several different pieces of hardware that could be failing. If you have any extra parts, you could...

The problem with replacing the motherboard on many of these dell computers is they build the system with proprietary in mind... meaning it is difficult to find matching parts without going through dell themselves. For example: I had a dell system I wanted to replace the motherboard on and the...

The following link should help you out with your Wireless Zero problem: Turning on Wireless Zero Configuration

I'm still not getting the audio cd problem, but there are still errors. New errors: #tail /var/log/messages Aug 12 07:29:04 galactus kernel: bio 00000000, biotail 00000000, buffer 00000000, data 00000000, len 0 Aug 12 07:57:07 galactus -- MARK -- Aug 12 08:04:12 galactus kernel...

No phantom audio cds yet, but this morning I checked the logs to find the following under dmesg hda: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused (ireason = 0x01). Trying to recover by ending request. hda: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused (ireason = 0x01). Trying to recover by ending...

No, I have not.... this motherboard only has one IDE channel. I could try only having the master on the chain. The problem hasn't occured since I ejected the drive through the CLI last night (though I have confidence if I rebooted it would come back). The thing is, if I keep only one on IDE at...

On the /dev/hda (this drive currently does not have the "audio cd" problem), nothing changed in any logs when a disc (data DVD) was inserted. /dev/hdb (drive with problem) would not eject though GUI. Had to eject using button. When the disc was inserted, this was the result of tail...

I haven't flashed the BIOS at all since I got the motherboard (its been about 24 hrs). I'm at work, but when I get home, I will check what version is available vs what version I'm running and I will get back to you. Are there any particular logs you wanted to see, AT? *edit* The first...

Preface: I recently replaced my motherboard in my main system with a Gigabyte GA-G22M-S3L due to several problems including random reboots, faulty RAM slots, and optical drive problems (DMA mode could not be enabled). My problem: After replacing my motherboard, I am now getting audio cd...

For the record, I do not plan on using dd-wrt as my future firewall distro. I very much like the flexibility and functionality of a whitebox router. But I also think dd-wrt can, properly set-up, be a huge benefit to many home networks without some of the worries of a whitebox (however minor they...

Recently, a friend of mine introduced me to dd-wrt. For those of you who dont want to RTFA, it is basically linux for many popular wireless/wired routers (ie: linksys, netgear, dlink, etc). It includes many features that come with more popular Linux firewall distros, only it runs much lighter to...