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After I play a game on my computer, videos will stop working, but only the sound will work. before I play a game they work fine, but after I play the screen is just black with the sound working... It works after I logoff and log in again, but they dont work after I play a game. What could it be?

whys my power aux thing so hot?

CPU is around 55 idle and 63-4 when playing a game.

What should the temperature be about? Mines usually at 50-60 degrees Celsius, computer temperature around 40, and my gpu temperature at 60, and while playing games around 80

$650 with monitor

Hey thanks guys, I've installed it and everythings running smooth. My first build has had a few road blocks, but I managed to get past them thanks to you guys.

so hard drive should be first? THen cd drive?

alright i kind of solved that problem by not plugging in the hard drive and then booting the windows cd, and then i plugged it in and loaded the file sonto the hard drive, but now i got another problem... After loading the files it says the computer will restart in however many seconds and set up will continue, but when my comp does restart, it takes me back to the menu for the bios that says press f1 to continue, well i press f1 and it does the whole thing all over again.

do you have both the dvd drive and hard drive on the same IDE cable? and what kind of windows disk are you using? is it a normal microsoft windows XP disk, or a manufacture suppled disk, like a dell hp toshiba etc. etc.

Yes both on the same IDE cable, and im using the disk that came with my dell.

What's the bios for (MB), how are the drives connected (ATA,SATA), are there primary and secondary connections, what's windows

more info needed

I dont really know the BIOS?my mobo is a MSI 945GM3, the drives are both ATA, the motherboard says they're in Third IDE Master and Third IDE Slave, im using WIndows XP. If its possible to reformat the hard drive I think that would solve the problem..

Hey guys, i just built my new computer , enter bios and everythign seems ok. My hard drive is set as Master, and my Dvd burner set as slave, so it says insert boot up cd, so thats what I did. It saved a whole bunch of files from the disk(windows) and then asked me to restart. Ok so I did that , and windows begins to install, I notice that its stuck on 39 minutes for about 15 minutes and the computer seemed to be frozen, so i hit the reset button and try again. I hit boot from cd, but now i get an error everytime i do it. even if i load the driver cd for my motherboard, it says restarting installation and then error and the computer then restarts by it self. Its getting very annoying, can anyone help? i think i have to reformat my hard drive, but how would I?

Intel has usually reigned as the pioneer for faster processors, but you're paying for that. The video card you chose was great. Not bad for the price. It's SLI capable. Your board and processor don't compliment the video card. So I'd say put biases aside and choose an AMD board... something like this one thats the same price

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813186059

Memory is still dual channel, expandable to 4GB, and the chipset compliments your video card. You're still spending the same amount. Oh, and btw, your intel mobo that you chose has no AGP slots and you won't be able to use your video card anyway. Its onboard.

Expansion Slots

AGP Slots None =(

Onboard Video Chipset  Intel GMA 950

The AMD processor is $2 more than your Intel Celery stick. $65.xx

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103046

So there's the hookup. Keep all the rest of the eq you planned to buy. NOw you've got a gaming machine that can at least step a foot in the ring! 

Woot!

Next time mate

This was my first build and I wanted to use something familiar, but this wont be my last either so im always open for suggestions

Nvm All figured out.

hey guys, i got my parts in but I got a problem, I think my Power supply is dead, my computer will not turn on at all , i got the leds in the right place, but it just wont turn on. Can anyone tell me how to test the power supply to see if its working or not.

Reading the reviews on Newegg , it seems to be a pretty good cpu. And its cheap, so I cant really complain.

Hey guys, decided not to get the barebone systems, didnt really like them, instead I ordered the following..

Case - Rosewill TU-155 Black 0.8mm SGCC Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case 400W Power Supply

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16811147001

Motherboard - MSI 945GM3-F LGA 775 Intel 945G Micro ATX Intel Motherboard

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813130060

CPU - Intel Celeron D 356 Cedar Mill 3.33GHz LGA 775 Processor Model BX80552356

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819112213

Video Card - XFX PVT73GUGF3 GeForce 7600GT 256MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16 Video Card http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814150185

Ram - CORSAIR ValueSelect 1GB (2 x 512MB)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820145568

Hard Drive -Western Digital Caviar SE WD1600JB 160GB 7200 RPM IDE Ultra ATA100 Hard Drive http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822144203

Dvd/Cd burner

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16827136118

Everything together cost me $556 including shipping and tax,

Im not too sure whats good and whats not good. Im pretty sure some members know better than me

Hey guys, like the title says, im looking to build a custom pc for $500. A friend of mine refered me to the site and said you guys can help. Here are some basic things that I would like...

1gb of ram

80gb or more hard drive

Cpu, something decent.(no AMD )

Video card, dosent have to be something really good, but something that can play games like Counter Strike source and Age of Empires 3 without looking like a ps2 game.

cd/dvd burner

and thats basically it. $500 is my budget for everything, except the monitor.

Thanks