Computer Help Thread

Carcrazy · Post by **Carcrazy** » 06 Apr 2007, 17:27

Okay, I droped a new MoBo in my PC cuz I deleted the BIOS on the other. Got an OEM copy of Vista Home Premium and installed it. I've had problems with this MoBo even while I waS trying to install it. Now whenever windows tries to start the boot screen with the scroling status bar just sits there untill it freezes or restarts itself. I've tried everything I know to get it to work but it never does.

krazyammo · Post by **krazyammo** » 06 Apr 2007, 17:33

actually family have no computer problem, ut i just wanna know how you guys know so much about video card, motherboard, Cpu, Cpu speeds ect. cuz me and my friend want to upgrade our computer and we don't know what to do and what parts are good to run........friend just wants to have a better pc and me well i wanna upgrade cuz one 1 reason: stop wasing money on game consoles. but my dad doesn'nt want me to upgrade the computer for some apperant reason

Edit: sorry if it says "I" a lot, trying to not be self centered or anything.

PSZeTa · Post by **PSZeTa** » 06 Apr 2007, 18:30

Carcrazy wrote:
weedman173 wrote:Unless he plans on buying an Athlon FX-74 and overclocking it 200Mhz.
Ding Ding!

Lmao, the Quad FX platform hasn't even been released yet. I'll just start by saying that a FX74 will most likely not overclock easily.

Carcrazy · Post by **Carcrazy** » 06 Apr 2007, 20:31

krazyammo wrote:actually family have no computer problem, ut i just wanna know how you guys know so much about video card, motherboard, Cpu, Cpu speeds ect. cuz me and my friend want to upgrade our computer and we don't know what to do and what parts are good to run........friend just wants to have a better pc and me well i wanna upgrade cuz one 1 reason: stop wasing money on game consoles. but my dad doesn'nt want me to upgrade the computer for some apperant reason

Edit: sorry if it says "I" a lot, trying to not be self centered or anything.

I get it from my brother, if you want my advice... google it, go to some computer modding forums, and take your computer apart to see how it works. I built my first computer by eye comparison after I took it apart.

About my problem... Has anyone even noticed a difference in Vista RC1 and Vista RTM?

Another problem: I've never had this with Vista on any machine I've used (except one.) But whenever I go to put Media Player's Visualation on full screen this is all I get!

But media center (Top) works fine...

prince1142003 · Post by **prince1142003** » 06 Apr 2007, 22:18

Could be a lack of proper graphics drivers, or you may need to adjust settings in WMP itself.

Carcrazy · Post by **Carcrazy** » 06 Apr 2007, 22:22

Well, I just installed the nVidia drivers I got off their website so I'll reatart and hope this sucky ass motherboard starts.

EDIT: Fixed!

Jmac- · Post by **Jmac-** » 07 Apr 2007, 03:40

krazyammo wrote:actually family have no computer problem, ut i just wanna know how you guys know so much about video card, motherboard, Cpu, Cpu speeds ect. cuz me and my friend want to upgrade our computer and we don't know what to do and what parts are good to run........friend just wants to have a better pc and me well i wanna upgrade cuz one 1 reason: stop wasing money on game consoles. but my dad doesn'nt want me to upgrade the computer for some apperant reason

Edit: sorry if it says "I" a lot, trying to not be self centered or anything.

You learn pretty quick when you make your living selling, building, and fixing computers ...

Carcrazy · Post by **Carcrazy** » 07 Apr 2007, 04:41

[quote="Jmac-"]quote] You learn pretty quick when you make your living selling, building, and fixing computers ...[/quote
You kind of have to or else you'll end up like my sister

Does anyone know how to fix the problem with Vista where after the computer goes into sleep the computer freezes?

I've already upgraded my video driver.

McLaren_dude · Post by **McLaren_dude** » 07 Apr 2007, 05:29

ok so this is what happened, i went from a windows 200 nt professinal, than i got tired of it( too sucky). i went and bought xp pro. now i want and downloaded a demo of carbon, but it wont work, what shall i do, or what is the problem

Carcrazy · Post by **Carcrazy** » 08 Apr 2007, 06:39

OK before I ask this, so we can get this out of the way, I know vista is a resource hog and I'm not deleting it, mi=ainly because I bought an OEM version. Now wihh that out of the way, Vista normaly idles about 30% CPU and 45% RAM (Maybe with one window open), but lately (as in today and yesterday night) it has been running at 100% CPU (non-stop, I've only dipped down to 97% in the past 30 hours) and 60% RAM. Even Most Wanted is messing up, where as when I first installed MW would run perfectly on a 1200 resoultion with everything maxed out. I've searched for spyware... found none... ended background tasks... no help at all. I have no idea at all, but this is really getting annoying. PLEASE HELP ME!

EDIT: I'm defragmenting hard drive now but i see no point in running a chkdsk if Vista has onyl been running for 3 days.

OMG! I think th edefragment did it cuz it just went back down. I guess I installed to many things at once.

Post by **YaelDjiel** » 08 Apr 2007, 06:55

if it happens again, open up task manager and see what is actually taking up CPU
just close that/fix cause of problem (if possible of course

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Carcrazy · Post by **Carcrazy** » 08 Apr 2007, 07:32

Ya, at first I thought it was just overheating so I cut it off while I went to work (6 hours) but it was still doing it when I cut it back on. But now I can run Most Wanted on high without it crashing or skipping. You know, the 30 FPS i was getting really takes me back to the integrated graphics days I used to have. lol

Offtopic: nice sig.

I keep blowing out the fuse in my Surround sound, (most likely cuza I have 2 150Watt speakers and it was only meant to power 80 watts)... what should I do?

viper16 · Post by **viper16** » 11 Apr 2007, 01:16

okay i am getting pissed off i have called EA and other people and they all say Carbon is not for Regular PC-CD and you have to have a DVD Drive. EA said the CD version doesnt exist

Cpt.Razkit · Post by **Cpt.Razkit** » 11 Apr 2007, 02:04

My PSU blew out 2 days ago... bah... POS Generic PSU

Nothing else was damaged, thank goodness... =]

race_invader · Post by **race_invader** » 13 Apr 2007, 07:13

I need help on installing windows...

My mum has Windows XP Home Edition and she wants to upgrade to Xp Professional and she wants me to install Professional without erasing her HHD so then she doesn't loose Photos and music ect. so how can i do that if it is possible

The reason she wants to do that is coz her XP Home Edition wasn't Genuine but she has brought Xp Professional with a key and stuff...

darknight788 · Post by **darknight788** » 13 Apr 2007, 07:16

if possible burn all your stuff that you want to keep to a dvd or cd and then reformat your HDD and then put all the stuff back on. atleast thats how i did it

race_invader · Post by **race_invader** » 13 Apr 2007, 07:19

darknight788 wrote:if possible burn all your stuff that you want to keep to a dvd or cd and then reformat your HDD and then put all the stuff back on. atleast thats how i did it

Yeah tried that but there is alot of cr@p on there... and to be honest here i ain't good at reformatting

weedman173 · Post by **weedman173** » 13 Apr 2007, 08:02

You don't need to be good at it, just put the windows disk in and make sure it boots from the cd and choose the option to format. And to save the stuff, you could always get an external HDD.

race_invader · Post by **race_invader** » 13 Apr 2007, 09:22

Ah okay.. hmm ill try that and yeah Report back

Thank you

Jana · Post by **Jana** » 13 Apr 2007, 09:46

i have a tiny problem!
how do i remove this f****ng color?

Carcrazy · Post by **Carcrazy** » 13 Apr 2007, 10:06

That is coroded (spelling) data... my sister's computer does it too. No idea how to get rid of it, or if I'm even right.

EDIT: though you could edit the icons themselves to restore the transperancy... just like a photo.

BrontoX · Post by **BrontoX** » 13 Apr 2007, 13:10

@Jana: Make sure that in settings you have it set on 32-bit colors

Jana · Post by **Jana** » 13 Apr 2007, 13:42

it is 32-bit!
if i change the background color, the color around letters is also changing! i only know that is background!

Stereo · Post by **Stereo** » 13 Apr 2007, 21:57

1. right-click on My Computer. Click properties.
2. go to Advanced tab.
3. Click on the Performance Settings.
4. check the "Make best appearance" circle.

Hope this helps. =]

Carcrazy · Post by **Carcrazy** » 14 Apr 2007, 04:22

Yet another vista problem...

Limewire is taking up alot more power than it did in XP... it takes up almost 200MB ram and over 3/4 of my CPU, even when I may only be downloading little to none (2-0) small files.

Any ideas why Limewire may be doing this?

EDIT: It was running normal last night.