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How to diagnose bad RAM Does your computer emit endless beeps during bootup? Does your PC crash for no apparent reason at random intervals? Or you get blue screens of death with errors such as IRQL_Less_or_Not_Equal? If so, then it is very likely that there is a problem with your computers memory (RAM). Common symptoms of bad ram There are many indicators of bad memory, but the most common ones are: * Computer not booting at all, beeping endlessly. When this happens all you can do is replace the RAM by trying another stick. You wont be able to use any ram diagnostic software in this instance. * Distorted graphics on the screen. However it is possible this can be video card related. * Blue screens of death during the installation of Windows XP or Windows 2000. This is an obvious sign of faulty RAM. * Crashes or blue screens during normal operation of the system (emails, web surfing etc.) * Crashes during memory intensive tasks such as using Photoshop, playing 3d games etc.. Your ram is toast.

Same thing happened here.

.....not really.

Sony has recently destroyed 1 of my 2 reasons to get a PS3: Gran Turismo. I REFUSE to pay for vehicles when they could easily just be in the game. Final Fantasy is the only thing left.

Check and make sure you have the latest drivers for your vid card. http://www.nvidia.com/content/drivers/drivers.asp Thats for nvidia, don't know about ATI.

In laptops, mobos are custom to each model. RAM usually isn't, procs aren't, and HDDs usually aren't.

Get the fuck away from Norton. It is a enormous system hog, and it caused me nothing but trouble for the short time i used it. Go find NOD32. It has a free trial that lasts a good while, and I have a crack if you want it. It is also very light on system resources.

fyi processor clock speed is not really the best way of measuring power nowadays With the P4 it was because they basically got exponentially faster with every increase in clock speed. This still applies, but more modern procs (Core 2, Core 2 duo, most AMD processors) rely on memory speed and the amount of cache that they have onboard more than raw clock speed.

http://www.svc.com/gc6dvi2.html

Zalman CNPS9500 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16835118223 Scythe Ninja with a Nexus fan http://www.svc.com/scnj-1100p.html Nexus fan: http://www.svc.com/d12sl-12.html Im guessing you have a Socket 478 or LGA 775 Pentium 4 am i correct?

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Same here.

Truth. I am sticking to XP for as long as possible and then going to Linux, if it still exists. Also, SP3 is coming around 2007 time.

http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.txt This literally makes me sick. This is the worst: Thoughts?

That serious error message never tells anybody anything. From your description, it sounds like a bad power supply, bad vid card, spyware, or numerous other things. ie need more specifics

be careful with this. To me, going from VGA to DVI was like night and day, in terms of general picture quality.

Nice choice. I would have gone with the XFX version, but thats just me.

Firefox I keep a copy on the school server to use instead of IE

Is it hoodiez tiem now pleez? ;_; But seriously, the hoodies need to be back in stock. I am currently in the market for a hoodie, and one of these would be very very nice. Its the least i can do after using up all of DJP's bandwith for the last 5 or so years. To the people who have an XL hoodie: I am around 6ft and 170-180 lbs, would an XL fit me or do i need to go for a XXL?

link? (lol pun)

So what big games does the PS3 have anyway? GT5 FF 13 .....?

Ah, classic D&B from Beatdrop. Very evil sounding, and its a wonderful mix of his usual style with a somewhat different beat. The bass is exellent. 10/10. You cannot do an OC Remix better than this.