For Advanced Computer Builders/Upgraders/people....HELP!

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• Serien Member CommonPosts: 8,460

  August 2003

  no no dont push this down off the list, reply!

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• squeee Member Posts: 722

  August 2003

  So do you have the monitor pluged into the new video card?  Does it display at all?  Have you disabled you motherboard's video card?  Tech support can help you with disabeling the motherboard video.  If it does not say no new hardware found let it run to windows in normal mode.  Wait a bit, does a little buble in the lower right hand corner say found new hardware?  Do any of the icons say found new hardware?  If not click on your start menu, then click Control Panel.  Since you have a fresh install it is probably in Catagory View.  On the left in all the blue there should be something that says Switch to Classic View, click that.  Double click the add hardware icon.  Click next and it will search for hardware.  If it finds it then follow the incstructions, if following the instruction does not work try again.  When you get to the installing drivers part look around for a "Have CD" option, put the CD in your drive and tell it to search that drive.

  If all else fails, put the CD in drive, go to my computer and double click the correct drive.  You should be able to explore the files manualy and find the correct .exe  There is probably a windows XP folder on the CD with a Setup.exe file inside it.  Run that and see what happens.

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• Serien Member CommonPosts: 8,460

  August 2003

  yea monitor is plugged into the new video card.

  it does display, though very bad

  i tried disabling the motherboard video card, then the whole sscreebn went blank, i had to reboot windows xp

  techsupport isnt helping me, they don't want to admit their error

  it dosent say new hardware

  i cant even change the wallpaper on my desktop now

  HELP!

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• Enark Member Posts: 7

  August 2003

  If you just bought this computer, unplug it. Take it back to where you got it from, plop it on their counter and tell them "FIX IT NOW, FOOL!!!   ". Umm, but nicely.  

  If you can't do that because you bought it online or something then get on the phone right away while the warrenty is still valid and have the sellers tech support walk you through fixing it. They don't mind doing that. It's their job after all.

  Making a support call or returning a purchase can be intimidating if you're not used to doing it, but sheesh, when you've spent over a grand on something you better exersise your rights!

  Oh, and be leary of tech advice given on forums like this one and others. They may know what they're talking about. Or maybe not. If it's the latter your problem could end up worse than when you started.
• Serien Member CommonPosts: 8,460

  August 2003

  i bought it online, and to return it i hae to pay shipping, which is 120 dollars

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• squeee Member Posts: 722

  August 2003

  When you go to my computer and open open the cd what files do you see?

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• Enark Member Posts: 7

  August 2003

  Ok, you might try this:

  Click; Start/All programs/Accessories/System  Tools/System Restore. Then use System restore to reset your comp to the way it was when you bought it. Then if needed install the drivers again.

  Edit: Make sure to use Windows Update to get  the latest patches and make sure you have DirectX 9.0b
• squeee Member Posts: 722

  August 2003

  Don't ever use System Restore first off, it is a waste of time and disk space.  I would just disable it if I were you; you can right click on My Computer and do that.  Just explore the driver CD, it can't be that hard, your drivers are on there somewhere.  And all of the windows updates should keep you busy for oh I'd say an hour, if not more.

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• Enark Member Posts: 7

  August 2003

  When the computer was brought home it was crashing every ten minutes. Making sure all the drivers and updates are in place might be enough to fix that. Frequent crashes can also be caused by an inadaquite power supply. Less than 300 watts is just asking for trouble. 400 watts or more is prefered.

  His real problems started when he reinstalled WinXP from a different disk, but used the original regestry key. Using System Restore will reset the computer to the way it was before he borked it with the new disk/old key.
• Serien Member CommonPosts: 8,460

  August 2003

  returned it.....im gonna buy these parts and build my own, dont delete the next posts

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• Serien Member CommonPosts: 8,460

  August 2003

  http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=473302&Sku=SYX-P4-036013&CatId=333

  barebone

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• Serien Member CommonPosts: 8,460

  August 2003

  http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=520066&Sku=THD-40A3%20P&CatId=523

  hard drive

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• Serien Member CommonPosts: 8,460

  August 2003

  http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=365894&Sku=CP2-P4-2200ANC&CatId=260

  processor

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• Serien Member CommonPosts: 8,460

  August 2003

  http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=578161&Sku=S457-1020&CatId=493

  cpu fan

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• Serien Member CommonPosts: 8,460

  August 2003

  http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=589542&Sku=Q131-3004&CatId=494

  case fan

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• Serien Member CommonPosts: 8,460

  August 2003

  http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=440585&Sku=C44-5020%20CN%20C&CatId=107

  sound card

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• Serien Member CommonPosts: 8,460

  August 2003

  http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=565447&Sku=T299-1000&CatId=164

  monitor

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• Serien Member CommonPosts: 8,460

  August 2003

  Djin, is this EVERYTHING i need to build a computer?

  and btw, when I start the computer for the first time, what happens? what does it do? how do I install an operating system?

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• Uifz Member Posts: 252

  August 2003

  Argh Murt! Couldn't ya posted the links in one post instead of all these little kinds and why is this in the Pub?? Thats why you buy Dells
• Uifz Member Posts: 252

  August 2003

  And lol why are you asking help on an MMORPG site, you know theres really helpful sites that you can talk about Computer and technical problems from live chatting, just search Google.
• hercules Member UncommonPosts: 4,925

  August 2003

  I would say first off be very careful with graphics card.

  A lot of the unknown cards work horribly with wind xp,have very little updated drivers and some games will just not even bother to play them.

  That 50 dollars would have been better spent buying an older known brand like geforce2.

  Stick with ATI and ndvidia cards honestly.

  Even 1 year ago i would not even go near a ATI card simply because the drivers were rarely updated and many games hated them but they are very good now.

  From what it seems it all points to the card .If you have a friend ask him to let you test your cpu with a ndvidia or ATI card and see.
• Djin Member, Newbie CommonPosts: 3,263

  August 2003

  www.overclocking.com

  I post there A LOT!  Go there Murt and look for me.  I have something like 1800 post... and not SPAM.

  I would rather give you advice there...  this is MMORPG forum.

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• Serien Member CommonPosts: 8,460

  August 2003

  ok ok gosh, lol I couldnt find any tech support so i THOUGHT some of my friends could help me.......lol im kidding

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• willo248 Member Posts: 346

  September 2008

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