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gotmilk

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Bad power supply?

20 May 2007 - 01:33 PM

My computer has been acting strangely lately.  I use NVIDIA's NTUNE software to overclock (no overclocking options in BIOS).  Every time I turn on my computer, I overclock my CPU from 2,412 MHz to 2,520 MHz (whoooooo), my PCI-E slot from 2,500 to 2,625 MHz, I drop my memory timings down a little bit, and overclock my graphics card from 450/660 to 542/732.  Sometimes, though, when I play games, my computer just randomly shuts off.  It does it way more often on Vista than on XP, and on Vista, I've even had it shut down while I was just browsing the web.  I don't think it's a temperature problem, but maybe I'm wrong.  Could it be a bad power supply?  My power supply is a generic brand.

Boot failure : (

15 March 2007 - 04:26 PM

Whenever I try to boot up on my other hard drive (the one that has Vista installed), I get this error:

"DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER"

I inserted the disk and tried to let Vista "repair" itself, but no luck.  Anyone know what could be causing this problem?

Yeah, so basically, my ISP sucks

01 February 2007 - 04:06 PM

Yeah, basically, they're terrible.  For those of you who have seen my previous posts about my ISP, you know they're bad, but they're getting a lot worse.

Here is an email I sent them earlier today (be sure to click the links, they have speed test results, I'm supposed to be getting 3/256):

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Lately, I've been getting terrible internet speeds, regardless of when I test.  My downloads are slow, pages load like I'm on dial-up (partly because of low speed, partly because of packet loss), and my online games are lagging unbearbly.  Here are a bunch of tests I took these were on my wireless computer with consistent 100% signal strength (It never drops below 100%):

Both testmy.net servers are located in Dallas, TX
testmy.net server 1 test 1
testmy.net server 1 test 2
testmy.net server 2 test 1
testmy.net server 2 test 2

Speakeasy.net Dallas, TX server

DSLreports.com Atlanta, GA server

Just to make sure it wasn't my wireless router causing the problem, I took some tests on my hardwired computer.  Same thing:

testmy.net test 1 wired
testmy.net test 2 wired

Yes, the test results page from the wired test #2 took more than a minute to load because of packet loss (I was monitoring my network with the task manager while I tested).

Why are you providing such low quality Internet access when we're paying for 3 Mbps downstream?  Could you fix this please?

I suspect they'll give me the "up to" 3 Mbps response.  What should I do?

What's better?  That AT&T DSL I was hoping to get is not available at my current address!  Conwaycorp (my current ISP) is my only option.  They pretty much have a monopoly over my city and can do whatever they want with our Internet access.

Possible problem with processor

21 January 2007 - 12:01 PM

Well, I have an AMD Atholon 64 4000+, and it's supposed to have an 1MB L2 cache, but PCmark04 (free version) only shows the 128 KB L1 cache.  Is this a problem with my processor, PCmark, or neither?

New video card

11 December 2006 - 08:09 PM

I'm probably getting this video card for Christmas.  The pictures below show my current setup.

1.  Is this a good choice?

2.  What should I upgrade next (processor, memory, etc.), and what model do you suggest (nothing too expensive)?

3.  Do I need any extra cooling?

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