OK, it will slow down with no fans. plus, even if its 30F in your house, that CPU will not cool properly without the heatsink and good airflow....
Memtest is good, if it's giving erros then you have a ram problem. the thing is, is it the stick you added or the 256mb that is not accessible?...
Techtiger4's soultion will work if the data has been erased or formatted, but if the drive has had a head failure, or one of the disk's has been...
if the bios can see it then it shouldn't be an issue with the ram. have you tried a fresh install or live cd?
Ram sounds bad. How old is the DDR1 and how was it kept? also, try looking for Motherboard BIOS updates, your new hardware may be upsetting your BIOS.
there is no fast RS232 connection. windows limits it speed to 115200 (i think) bps, which is slower than USB 1.1 (hence the reason USB1.1 and...
thats pretty warm for the CPU. mine gets to about 55c while gaming, never more than 60.
well, to start with i assume you want to test the CPU, RAM, and such. 2 goods choices are Hirens Boot CD and Ultimate Boot CD. both are Cd...
clean install is a definite. your virus has wrecked your installation of windows, and its really hard to repair it by hand. even if you get it...
floppies use a special IDE and power. the power is 4-pins, like an IDE Molex, but smaller, and usually attached to the same cable as IDE molex....
when you turn it on, immediatly after the bios hit F8. it will give you advanced boot options. one will be disable automatic restart (or something...
the only reason to go with the ATI card would be DX11, which nothing uses. If you want raw pow3er however, go with an ATI Radeon 5970. It will...
that sounds bad. Safe Mode is supposed to be only NECESSARY software, as in that which is crucial for it to work. Try to run Malwarebytes again in...
well, make sure the chip's fan and heatsink are clean of dust. also make sure the cables are out of the way (i've had one overheat because the...
lookign at remote pc software for an old lady with moderate intuition about puter LiveMesh software has one (owned by Microsoft i think) its...
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