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Wed Mar 22, 2006 12:35 am
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Forum Medic
Joined: 05 Dec 2004
Posts: 224
Location: South Carolina
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I get alot of questions from people about video cards, RAM, motherboards, etc. I am posting a few links for people who like to read all the techno babble about PC parts. PM me if you have any questions...
Tech Report has alot of information about alot of different components and does a great job with testing and reporting:
http://www.techreport.com/reviews/
An excellent article regarding RAM:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAM_latency
If you really want to torture yourself with the n'th degree of detail on everything, bookmark the following site. Search here for anything you want to know about PC hardware or software.
http://arstechnica.com/index.ars
Enjoy... And it really helps to take notes....
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Wed Mar 22, 2006 12:39 am
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Forum Medic
Joined: 05 Dec 2004
Posts: 224
Location: South Carolina
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I also use a utility to report anything you want to know about the inside of your PC (parts). Download and run the small utility - advisor.exe - from belarc.com. The results open up in a web browser and detail your parts, updates, and software. It's very handy...
Enjoy
http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html
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Wed Mar 22, 2006 1:58 am
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Forum H4xor
Joined: 26 Feb 2005
Posts: 1131
Location: East Coast - New Jersey
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Board: ASUSTeK Computer INC. A7V8X-X REV 1.xx
242.84 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
177.34 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space
LITE-ON DVDRW SOHW-1693S [CD-ROM drive]
3.5" format removeable media [Floppy drive]
Maxtor 6Y120P0 [Hard drive] (122.94 GB) -- drive 1, s/n Y3238C1E, rev YAR41BW0, SMART Status: Healthy
WDC WD1200JB-00EVA0 [Hard drive] (120.03 GB) -- drive 0, s/n WD-WMAEL2127147, rev 15.05R15, SMART Status: Healthy
NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT [Display adapter]
1024 Megabytes Installed Memory
Slot 'DDR 1' is Empty
Slot 'DDR 2' has 512 MB
Slot 'DDR 3' has 512 MB
Local Drive Volumes
c: (FAT32 on drive 0) 19.99 GB 11.33 GB free
d: (FAT32 on drive 0) 19.99 GB 17.23 GB free
e: (FAT32 on drive 0) 19.99 GB 19.42 GB free
f: (FAT32 on drive 0) 19.99 GB 11.41 GB free
g: (FAT32 on drive 0) 19.99 GB 12.73 GB free
h: (FAT32 on drive 0) 20.00 GB 6.24 GB free
i: (FAT32 on drive 1) 20.19 GB 6.95 GB free
j: (FAT32 on drive 1) 25.07 GB 19.06 GB free
k: (FAT32 on drive 1) 25.14 GB 24.92 GB free
l: (FAT32 on drive 1) 25.12 GB 21.13 GB free
m: (FAT32 on drive 1) 27.34 GB 26.90 GB free
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Wed Mar 22, 2006 6:21 pm
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Forum H4xor
Joined: 26 Feb 2005
Posts: 1131
Location: East Coast - New Jersey
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Ok, gotta change my opinion on this program. I was pretty impressed last night after installing it and watching all my info pop out. However, while at work I got the distressed call from Mrs TS that the computer had a 'weird' screen on it. After telling her to leave it on and use a diff computer till I got home, upon getting home, lo and behold, the computer was in CMOS.
Hmm....weird, but Ive been in CMOS a million times, so without thinking, I just popped it over to EXIT WITHOUT SAVING CHANGES and restarted.
No probs till she was back on it an hour later........first the mouse froze, then the screen did, then CMOS popped back up.
After reinstalling it, so far. no further issues.
Maybe it was a bad install, dunno, but, I havent had a computer pop into CMOS without my intervention in like, 5 years. (Bad virii will do some crazy things, wont they)
So, anyone else have any issues with this program? I really did like the little nuggets it gave me and wouldnt mind re-installing in the future, but am a little leary at this point. |
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