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In short, when the BIOS is "Verifying DMI pool data" it is verifying the table of data it sends to the operating system. There is some form of confermation that is not getting through and it hangs waiting for a responce. If it takes my computer 2 seconds and it takes him 7 minutes its not due to a hard drive that is one forth the speed of mine! No, its not drivers its something very low level as the following quotes suggest. Kels Said: Why do you have 3 transfer rates? Is disk cache enabled?

Well Performance Specs Part number 5500813 says between 16.6 (PIO Mode 4) and 33.3 (Ultra DMA/33) MB/sec. 16 MB/s does not explain the computer hanging for 7 minutes. Is the harddrive activity light on during boot up? It looks like a quality motherboard: http://techreport.com/articles.x/7286/2 When I was building a computer and doing the first boot-ups the computer would hang at "network config" for 10 minutes waiting for a connection. It was really frustrating because the LAN cable was not connected and the network driver were not yet installed. After that I set a personal record boot up time of about 12 seconds from hitting power button to desktop. After installing all the drivers & programs I needed it went to, O maybe 40-60 seconds Do you have the option of booting in safe mode? On another thought, this (http://pcpitstop.com/pcpitstop/default.asp) diagnostic is enough to point me in the right direction when troubleshooting. I choose new member -> test anonymously

Sounds like you have made good progress. If you have any other questions we're available. Do you see your motherboard in these pictures? I found three 13.5GB hard drives and two 13.52GB drives made by compaq these two are the closest matching IDE's: Part # 170284-001 - 13.5 GB, IDE HDD (WD135AA) Part # 158735-001 - 13.5 GB, 3.5' IDE HDD (Maxtor 91366U4) And this unspecified drive (which is the only one with specs) which is most likely not yours: Compaq Prosignia Desktop 330 Capacity: 1,350 MB Height: 1 in/25.4 mm Width: 3.5 in/88.9 mm Interface: Ultra ATA Transfer Rate: Media 148.8 MB/s & Interface 16.6 MB/s Seek Time: Single Track 0.90 ms, Average 9.0 ms, Full-Stroke < 20.0 ms Cylinders 11,530 & Data Heads 8 & Sectors per Track 269 to 320 Wow have times changed: My computer went from 8GB to 80GB to 500GB. I remember (bearly ) each GB of hard drive costing $100, then $1 per GB, now 4GB per $1.

I think its the Army that has a network of simulators near Fort Knox to train tank crews how to work with each other as well as having a "LAN" game of 20 vs. 20 tanks coordinating attacks against one another. The military has some really cool multimillon dollar flight simulators too.

If internet is all you do then windows XP is an easy answer, no you don't need another GB ram. If its vista I would run windows task manager and see your peak mem usage then decide. EDIT: Then again, if you bought a complete computer it probably came with junk running in the backround and could benefit you to remove those running programs you don't need.

Well what are you going to use that computer for, work, play? A board with FSB 1333MHz is your requirement? What are you focusing on: overclocking, low temps, quiet system? Newegg Motherboards Socket 775 fsb:1333 sortable by chipset, manufacturer, and price. Intel P35 Review benchmark and overclocking Asus P5K Deluxe vs Gigabyte GA-P35C-DS3 R PCSTATS Maximum Motherboard Overclocking Chart (use for ball park figures not exact)

ATI Tool is exceptional for overclocking and has some temp monitoring. RivaTuner has a great monitor that I use to log core/shader/mem speeds, core temp, fan %, video memory usage, and how much video memory overflows into system memory. Stock cooler on a HD 3850 256MB and 3870 512MB both peaked at 88 degrees celcius, while the custom cooler on a "TUL Radeon HD 3850 512MB" peaked at 54 degrees celcius. AMD ATI Radeon 3850 & 3870 Review & Temps One customer disliked the fan controler on a Diamond HD3850 because it starts to rev-up at tempatures well above what he was comfortable with. I have an EVGA 8600gt that only speeds up the fan to 40% at 76 degrees, even if I set the fan to 100% as soon at it crosses 76 degrees the fan controller sets fan to 40%

http://www.yougamers.com/benchmarkticker/ For your viewing pleasure hit F11 and hide toolbars.

Right on RTB, I found an Antec 1000W Power Supply between 80%-85% efficient. So you can only put a load of 800w on the PSU. 8 Cores at 4.0GHz + 8800GTX = 623W 8 Cores at 3.2GHz + 8800GTX = 470W 4 Cores at 3.0GHz + 8800GTX = 241W Article: Intel Power Consumption Then and Now Processor power consumption chart P.S. just the E6800 processor under load uses 67W, E6300(B2) uses 45W, E6300(L2) uses 37W

Testing done with QX6750 at 3.0Ghz, and compares 8800gt, HD3870, and a few 9600gt's http://www.hothardware.com/articles/Nvidia_GeForce_9600_GT_Launch_and_3Way_Shootout/?page=7

I said: 8600gt requires 350w, and im giving it 300w with a pentium D 9600gt requires 400w if running a E6800, I belive 9600gt with E6300 will be ok on 375w

If there two sources (internet service providers) that your accessing then their independent. If you have one ISP thats being routed into ethernet and wi-fi then bandwidth is dependent. In my house there are 3 computers on a ethernet set-up, and unless someone is doing a large download or upload I never sense any slowdown on the other computers.

I have a 8600gt requiring a 350w supply in my 300w HP. I would say yes since your cpu is using less power then E6800

Nvidia's GeForce 9600 GT Tested

Concerning SLI and crossfire, I once read a explanation that really made sense to me and I'm going to repeat it here. Imagine two cards are working together (sli or crossfire) to generate a scene of a car rotating on a showroom floor. Since both video cards are rendering that car, the two video cards are holding the same data. This means that your video ram is not being shared between the gpu's, thus you don't get double the Vram. Its like Ford makes a truck, and car dealers add a chrome package. It provides yet another hurdle, to check the reputation of the video card distributors.

read this slowly: I know people are going to get confused with that 3870 X2 with one GB Vram which is really 512MB + 512MB crossfired and the 3870 X2 512MB which sounds like 256MB for each GPU and since each 256MB is holding identical data it will run out of video memory just as fast as a 8600gt 256MB JH2688, what is your price range again?

Well you can look around newegg. Radeon HD 3850 512MB = $180 (best bang for the buck) Radeon HD 3850 256MB = $150-$170 8600GTS 512MB = $140 (very poor price to performance) 8600GTS 256MB = $100 (faster at low resolutions and slower then 8600GTt 512 at high resolutions) 8600GT 512MB = $100 (very affordable) 8600GT 256MB Verses HD3850 256MB on Doom 3 1600x1200, 4x AA, 8x AF, Ultra quality

Um about that vern, err I disabled my onboard video before installing that 8600gt, and the 8600 only sends a signal to the monitor at the windows log in screen and not the 2 minutes before hand in bios and boot up. Since I never see the POST screen should I activate the onboard video in windows to deactivate it in bios?

I would look at the quality of manufacturing more then pixel counting. This is exponential: 800x600 = 480,000 pixels 1400x900 = 1,260,000 pixels 1600x1200 = 1,920,000 pixels 2560x1600 = 4,096,000 pixels Strictly talking probability your right, but as new monitors come out they are better made. I play battlefield2 on a widescreen monitor running 1024x768, it makes men a little wider, but hey its a bigger target. I love the widescreen for having 2 windows open side by side, its like pages of a book. (when running 1400x900)

Also consider, your power supply, airflow in case (sound levels vs temp), and the space available in your computer case. Best video cards for the money Graphics Card Charts I recently got an Evga 8600gt 256MB for $100 and change. Newegg now has 8600GT 512MB for $99 But stay away from DDR2 and get DDR3 memory cards. EDIT: newegg also has a 8600gts 512MB $140 with a 40 dollar rebate. 9600gt Expreview.com concludes the 9600gt is nearly double the 8600gt's performance If this card might affect some prices on cards in the $100-$120 price range as demand shifts. (Just a theory)

Its likely security, preventing you from finding a way to bring down a internet provider. But you can still ping out from your computer.

I said in reply 12 page 1 that I found a bad memstick. Im running on a good one thus ZERO errors. Overclocking till I found an error didn't take long. At 205mhz fsb or 3.075Ghz I ran into memory errors. I tryed raising Vcore and Vmem, nothing. fsb:mem ratio at 6:5, nothing. This is really concerning because a 5mhz fsb overclock gets me errors, and I doubt its the cpu which normally runs at 3.013Ghz. The computer ran at 3.19 Ghz giving me errors faster then I could exit them. If running my cpu at 2.9Ghz makes an error free computer (which it is), then Im content with that.

Ballpark figures from PcPitStop <=100 ms Great, typical of a high-speed cable or DSL connection. 100 to 200 ms Good, common for cable and DSL connections. 200 to 400 ms Fair, usually seen with dialup connections or faraway sites. 400 to 600 ms Slow, either the connection or the remote site is slow. 600 to 1999 ms Poor, high latency. Typical for satellite connections. > 1999 ms No response, the ping was blocked or the site did not reply. On a lan game ping 0 - 8

Yes, I could but, If I run with 512MB ram and video card that was low end in the year 2001.... Whats my test going to be? If I can't run the same programs (BF2 & Crysis) I can't recreate the error. ...At the moment im running a 3Ghz at 2.9 and 200mhz RAM at 193 (pc-3200). It seems to be more stable, but to convince me it has to run flawless for a week. P.S. I think computer crashed on destop again

half-open connection: A connection state in which one connection end is established but the other connection end is unreachable or has disposed of its connection information. Comments on half-open_connections windows-xp-sp2-and-event-id-4226 <<< coolbuster please read MaxConnectionsPerServer - default 10, mine 32, example: Simultaneous requests sent to msn.com to load the borders, images and fonts. Windows Half-open_connections - default 10, mine 100 UTorrent Half-open_connections - default 10, mine 100, example: Number of peers downloading from simultaneously. UTorrent > options > preferences > advanced > net.max_halfopen P.S. After I did LVLlord patch a windows message came up and said something like, "A windows file critical to the operation of your system has been changed by this program, allow the change?"