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Hi Eddyjack, You should look up the type of soundcard or chipset your daughters pc has, and then download and install the appropriate drivers for them. There are more way to do that; Just press the MS Start key and the Pause key from the keyboard and the Device Manager Dialog Box will...

Too bad I'm not building a replica Swansen, the difference in a new Athlon 4000+ and a new Athlon X2 4800+ is still 160,- ~ 200,- euro's at various retailers. It's seen that the dual-core cpu's appearance didn't get as much excitement as the new quad-core cpu's get at the moment and game...

I'm also using AC'97 chipset, there's a speaker test function you should use before going on. Connect all the wires to the ports of their corresponding color first. Then select the Speaker Test function and select 6-channel from the dropdown box and click the auto-test button, a small visual...

Hi guys, I've been seeing the AMD X2 4800+ Toledo CPU dropping in price fast, but I'm wondering if it's a worthy investement? I'm thinking of replacing my AMD Athlon 64 4000+ San Diego with this in the near future. I mainly focus playing the latest games, and since more and more games...

Hi Thedreaded I've got a creative inspire set too, without a soundcard but using on-board audio I do have bass, Did you check all the cables are set properly, i.e my inspire set's black plug for the rear speakers actually goes into the grey port on the back of my computer, otherwise I...

I've played some games on my pc before with an emulator, except this was for ZSNES a super nintendo emulator. I believe it made no difference back then wether a game was pal or ntsc, something like that should be mentioned somewhere on the ePSXe's website or in a readme file after...

Although I haven't got a lot of experience with ATI cards, I can tell you that those temperatures are indeed alarming. Can you verify your cards cooler is actually working? If the card still has the stock cooler there should be a fan connector on the card itself which might be loose. Keep...

Our [Minime] HL2DM servers most of the time have players online, and lot's of skilled players come there too. Situated in Holland though, I don't know if you'll be able to get a nice ping from the USA. F.E.A.R. just gives me headaches, I'm constantly getting errors when connecting to servers...

Do you let windows control your virtual memory settings or have you set a specific amount? Maybe that's where your mb's are going?

Hmm, I've never been a fan of the UT series, but seeing so many HWF members play that I probably should consider buying it. Aren't there any other members that play the games I've lised? Cheers, [HWFC] Marcus :D

Organic Light Emitting Diode The biggest technical problem to overcome is the limited lifetime of the organic materials. It seems particulary blue OLEDs typically have lifetimes of around 5,000 hours when used for displays, which is lower than typical lifetimes of LCD or Plasma...

Only thing I know see is the difference is Thermal Design Power, The TDP is typically set not to be the most power the chip could ever draw (such as by a power virus), but rather the maximum power that it would draw when running real applications. This ensures the system will be able to...

I see you've filled in that you have an external drive under "My computer specs" can't you copy some critical files or programs to that to see if the problem persists? Let's hope you simply need to clean up your main HDD. You could run XP's Checkdisk tool, you'll find it under the Properties...

This is for all the HWF users who also play games online, Who of you also play the following games; Half Life 2: Deathmatch (2nd most played) Day of Defeat: Source (3rd most played) Battlefield 2 (most played) Call of Duty 2 (not currently installed) Doom 3 Multiplayer (not currently...

NTLDR is the is the Windows NT (win2k and XP) boot loader. When the BIOS finishes its POST rutine, it hands off control to this file. NTLDR, along with NTDETECT.COM and BOOT.INI are required to boot your machine, and its possible that one or all of them is missing or corrupted. You could copy...

Hey Swansen, One of the great benefits of an OLED display over the traditional LCD displays is that OLEDs do not require a backlight to function. This means that they draw far less power and, when powered from a battery, can operate longer on the same charge. It is also known that OLED based...

Hello Nakula, I noticed this is your 1st post, welcome to HWF's :D Sorry to hear you seem to have a problem with computer cases...but on to the question, Some (I don't know if all pc cases or which specific brand, but the better brands) have some sort form of protection which most of the...

Hellboy Another "Y" guys, sorry

Se7en I saw that movie too, I was playing Call of Duty 2 on the pc around the same time and I actually kept watching the movie because the "herioc sniper" in Enemy at the Gates was also called Vasilli, just like you in the 1st couple of missions in COD2 :D @ KaranisLove; Did you notice...

Have you checked all the fan connectors? Maybe you installed a newer BIOS version recently? Try loading the default values in your BIOS, save and reboot to see if the problem persists. I don't know if you installed any aftermarket coolers, but at very rare occasions my Zalman CPU fan boasted...