Give me a break. If I were just sitting on a pile of cash, I’d be buying the absolute best of everything. But looking at what I actually need my computer for right now, a used one from $50 is going to work just fine for me. I’d love to be driving a Mercedes, but I don't have that kind of money.
My monitor died on me last night. I caught this sudden smell of burning electronics, and then the backlight just tanked out of nowhere. The power light stays on, though. If I hit the menu button, I can barely make out some faint outlines, but everything else is just a total blur. Has anyone dealt with something like this before? Any idea what a repair job like this might run me?
So, I somehow managed to get XP32 up and running, but now I’ve hit a snag. My processor frequency won't budge past 1GHz, even though I’m rocking a 2.5GHz dual-core. On top of that, Cool'n'Quiet is totally disabled on me.
It’s reading it just fine. Even when I boot up a different version of Windows from a separate hard drive, it picks it right up—I can move files back and forth without any issues. I’m going to try some other versions of Windows, though. Right now, it won't recognize the 64-bit Windows, so I'll give the x86 version a shot instead.
I tried installing 64-bit Windows on my hard drive yesterday. Now I'm getting a "bootmgr missing" error. Or when I try to boot from the USB, it says something about being invalid or broken??? Any idea what I should do?
I figured someone here might’ve run into this before so I wouldn't waste my time spinning my wheels... look, if this needs a professional mechanic, then fine, let's call it a service job. But if it's just some tiny little glitch that takes thirty seconds to fix, I'm not about to hand over a stack of cash for something so simple. There's really no need for the attitude, either. Honestly, I don't know much about this stuff and I don't have any tools lying around, so I'm out of my element. If you can't help or just don't want to, that's cool—just please don't come at me with the hostility.
I just realized there's a capacitor down at the bottom of the board that's getting way too hot... I can't even touch it without getting burned... it's right down where the hard drives plug into the motherboard.
It’ll stay in a single room all winter long—one I don't even bother heating. The temperature doesn't even drop below 40 degrees in there, so it should be fine. Honestly, who knows. It sat out on the table without any protective wrap for over a year before this.
I’ve swapped out basically everything... the power supply, the CPU, the RAM, I even tried running it without a dedicated GPU... but the performance is still identical. It’ll jump to being twice as fast, then suddenly crawl at eight times the normal speed, then hit that double speed again. I don't have a multimeter on hand to check the voltages here.
Something’s not working right... When I plug my graphics card into the slot on a motherboard that doesn't have integrated graphics, the monitor just won't turn on... Basically, I power up the computer, the CPU cooler starts spinning, the power supply is running, but there's still no signal on the screen... if I try putting the card in the second slot, the system just starts beeping at me, and still nothing—just fans spinning and no picture... The motherboard has two slots. For context, here's the GPU: http://www.biostar-usa.com/app/en-us...on.php?S_ID=45
And this is the motherboard: http://www.asrock.com/mb/ULi/AM2XLI-eSATA2/ Here's the processor: http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/K8/AMD...0DEBOX%29.html Can anyone give me some solid advice??
So, I fired up my computer this morning and the USB ports were working perfectly fine. My wife didn't even touch the thing all day, so everything was running smooth. Then, I go to restart the machine, it boots back into macOS, and nothing. It just won't work. Dammit! I'm seriously losing my mind here.
Got it fixed. Swapped out the processor. I was running some weird dual-core setup before, but I just threw in a standard 2GHz chip and everything's back to running smooth again.