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Pentium D 820 CPU way too hot!!!

ShaolinMilk — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:08:02 GMT

I have a pentium D 2.8 processor and it runs way too hot at idle temperatures! It's around 65C when idle and when I surf the internet and such, it goes up to 70C+.

I changed my heatsink already and applied the thermal paste correctly so I don't think it's the heatsink. I believe the problem lies within the cpu itself because I installed a celeron D on the same motherboard and the cpu stays around 40C when idle.

What do you guys think the problem is?

Win 7 Autoplay problem....

SmokeyMcPot — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 05:27:30 GMT

WINDOWS 7 RC7100.

When I insert any discs into my optical drive, or USB devices such as flash drive, iPOD etc they no longer autoplay. With a disc in the optical drive if I go to Computer and double click to open I get the following error message;

[img]http://www.theriviera.me.uk/images/CD_Drive_Problem.jpg[/img]

[i]"windows cannot access the specified device, path, or file. you may not have the appropriate permissions to access them."[/i]

I can still access the drive if I right click and select open.

I have tried uninstalling in device manager, re-assigned another drive to F: and then reboot and let Windows rediscover my DVD drive. I also uninstalled Nero, run CCleaner, hijackthis, scan with Kaspersky etc

Thanks in advance for any help.

EDIT:

I did an upgrade to one of the newer versions of Win 7, possible 7227, but punkbuster would no longer work so I restored back to RC7100 using Win7 backup & restore, however, I am unsure if this coincided with the problem or not.

Old but re-jigged computer won't POST

PaulPatterson — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 05:20:51 GMT

Hi all,
just got a new motherboard and RAM and set it all up with all my old equipment that used to work. Now the computer does nothing
All the fans are working and the little front LED is on but the monitor's LED remains on yellow and there's no beep from the motherboard.
I have double-checked the pins on the motherboard where the chip sits and no pins are bent.
The RAM is a single stick of 1GB DDR2 RAM 5300 unbuffered and the motherboard is a dual channel motherboard but I think it takes single sticks.
The motherboard is an Asrock G31M-S

I have stripped the computer down, leaving just the mobo in the chassis with the chip and associated fans. No hard drives, ROMS, or RAM.
Without the RAM, the mobo gives 3 short beeps on bootup meaning a failure of the RAM. Upon placing the RAM back into it's slot, nothing as before, just the fans spinning. I've tried both RAM slots and the same nothingness.
Any help would be highly appreciated.

Ethernet card

scorpion — Sun, 17 May 2009 06:50:19 GMT

I want to install a new Ethernet Card for connecting to a modem. I wanted to know whether the Ethernet card could fit the socket of the existing PCI modem currently installed in my CPU? I use an Intel 845GVSR motherboard. What drivers are need for it, which card should I buy?
Thanks.

Power Supply Problem

BigDan8 — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 21:58:21 GMT

Last night, I decided to clean up the dust inside my computer's case. I shut down the computer completely and then unplugged everything from the back. The power supply was working fine then.

I made sure that I grounded myself when opening the side panel for cleaning. I then vaccummed the dust from reachable areas, making sure I didn't unplug anything in the process. I finished up and plugged everything back in as normal, but the green light on the back of my power supply started blinking and so did the power button in the front of my computer and it would not start. I unplugged the power and the light keeps blinking at a slow rate for several minutes. I then reopened the casing and made sure that I all connectors were tight and they were but to no avail.

I would sincerely appreciate any help I can get with this.....thanks.
= )

Card Over heated now pc wont turn on

Backwell — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 04:50:19 GMT

My Nvidia Geforce for some reason got extremely hot I was playing a game on my xbox look over and see distorted video on my comp i walked over and smelled something i jumped down unplugged the pc and touched my video card and it was extremely hot making sure it was all unhooked i sprayed the duster cleaner and the liquid from that sizzled when it hit the card.

the card is all clean and cool now but when i plugged my pc in nothing happened. The video cards fan is on but the motherboard or anything else wont even work. My pc has the orange light instead of the green light like when it's on. Pressing the power button does nothing.

Sound issue.

page — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 09:07:48 GMT

Hi all,

A friend of mine having a old machine estimated year 2001 package bell PC iMedia 5070 that said from Drive Detective but we have uninstalled this software cos it's not freeware.

Last week, we clean-install and format again to make it XP.SP3 due to the previous XP.SP1 system corrupted totally couldn't restore,repair or online windows update.

okay, so once installation is done, we go to Device manager and saw there is 3 unknown yellow error prompted for update i.e multimedia audio control, multimedia video control and modem.
I used Windows update for Multmedia video auto detected as nvidia graphic card, modem auto dectected as well but except multimedia audio not found.
I went to search support under [url=http://cr.am/framed.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsupport.packardbell.com%2Fuk%2Fitem%2Findex.php%3Fpn%3DP480410801%26g%3D2000&ref=driverguide]package bell[/url], I download, run the sound drive and was prompted to restart but still not working.

I simply install a sound driver from softpedia i.e Realtek AC'97 and install it. things turn out badly because is an incompatible drive i guessed. i went to Add/remove program, Realtek AC97 wasn't in the list.
I remove manually from programs file/realtek folder and went back to device manage again to uninstall the multimedia audio controlla.

Still, the computer keep auto-detected as AC'97 no matter how many time i uninstall ,reinstall or restart computer.

Tomorrow I'm going back to him or maybe remote assistant via internet to try again but I hope someone can help me.

what kind of information should I provide here?

thanks

lower power consumtion of my HTPC

GodMode — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 18:42:52 GMT

hi guys,

its been so long since i posted anything here...I'm surprised my account is still active :pinch:.its good to be back.

well here's my story. i have an HP m9500t PC in my living room set up as an HTPC (with a cablecard tuner, media center, windows 7 RC,the whole nine yards). currently, i have it setup to go on standby when its idle for 5mins. the good thing about this is that I'm saving a good amount of money on the electric bill; the bad thing however is the fact that the my FTP access is cut off until i wake it up and i get random stupid problems that require me to restart the PC on wake up.

what random stupid problems? lose network connection, tv tuner unavailable, no video, FTP port blocked etc, etc.

i would like to leave the PC running 24/7 but when i measure the thing using the kill-a-watt meter, it idles at about 80 watts (ouch :pinch: ) which explains the high electric bill in the first place.

so here's what i want to do...lower the power consumption of this PC at best i can. any advice is welcome.

system specs:

CPU - Intel Q8300 2.5GHZ

GPU - ATi Radeon 4670 1GB

HDD - WD 750GB (green drive), seagate 500GB

Chipset - Intel P35

RAM - 3GB DDR2 800

Fans - 2 60mm (case), 1 80mm (CPU), 120mm (PSU)

here's i two things I'm thinking of:

1. underclock the CPU via software to about 1.6GHZ. the HP bios blocks/hides all CPU configs so any kind of software solution is the only option i've got. I'm running windows 7 64-bit.

2. underclock the GPU as well. ATi tool comes to mind here, i'll try it when i get home tonight.

Problem connecting PC to TV using HDMI

rokuko — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 01:27:25 GMT

OS: Windows Vista Home Premium
Graphics card: ATI Radeon HD 3650
TV: Olevia 232-S12

I bought an HDMI cord, connected it from the back of my PC to the back of my TV, turned to the HDMI channel, restarted the PC, but I'm still not getting any picture. I've tried going into display settings, but it's not detecting any extra monitor. Is there anything I'm missing here?

Thanks for your help, and if there's any specific information you need, ask :P

panic, no cd/dvd rom detected

golumb1 — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 14:01:04 GMT

Hi,

after doing some anti virus scans, my pc would not connect to the internet, however my laptop still connects. Think some settings have accidently got changed. Then, panic, no d: drive listed in My Computer. Device Manager shows both cd/dvd roms and shows drivers loaded but cannot find the hardware devices.

Can anyone help?

Greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Golumb

Nvidia 8300 stuck in 4 bit color.

ConmanTheUber — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 22:18:10 GMT

I'm sitting in front of a Dell Inspiron 530 i've been working on to help a friend out.

The system is running Vista Home, and is stuck at 640x480 res and 4-bit color, and it's using an Nvidia 8300 GS.

In the device manager, the card is recognized by windows, but is "disabled due a problem starting the device" (code 43). I looked up what error code 43 was on MS support and it was less than helpful.

I've done everything I could think of, including:

Removing/scrubbing the old video drivers, and installing fresh ones from the Nvidia.com
Updating windows itself.
Updating the BIOS
Removing the card, dusting/cleaning it off and reseating it.
Reinstall windows.

The machine worked fine for a few months apparently, and then the 4 bit color problem happend very suddently.
Before he dropped it off to me, he turned the system on (first time in about a month) and the display was fine... ran for about 10 minutes and than froze. On reboot the display was back to low color.

I've searched around on the net and found a lot of people with the same problem with various cards and systems.. but no one who seems to have fixed it.

I'm guessing he might just have a bum card. I'm just wondering why windows can recognize it at all, if its bad.

does anyone have any other pissible suggestions?
Thanks in advnace.

unable to change resolution

Door29 — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 15:39:23 GMT

Well I'm unable to change my screen resolution from 640 by 480 to my normal setting of 1024 by 768.Everything was fine when I turn my on computer in the morning then I shut it off when I had to leave,then when I came back and turn it back on the resolution was mess up.The only thing I did out of the ordinary was send an e mail from my cell to my computer.I also ran anti-virus and anti-spyware but nothing came up.

CD Rom or..?

acadiegurl — Fri, 29 May 2009 07:51:35 GMT

hey its me again

im trying to load a game CD and when i remove first CD from tray and try to load second CD, my pc freezes and need to reboot to un****.

im running XP and its on a DVD-Rom

thx for help and your hard wook <3

Problem with ethernet cards

Lior — Mon, 25 May 2009 18:07:43 GMT

Hi,
I just upgraded my pc and bought a Gigabyte GA-73PVM-S2H motherboard.
I didn't reinstall Windows, just put my old HD with Winxp sp2.
For some reason, when checking Device manager, the build-in ethernet card has a question mark, and the information says the drivers are not installed.
I tried installing the cd that came with the motherboard, I tried downloading the Nvidia chipset drivers, but both still give the same result.
So I took and old Realtek rtl8319d ethernet card I have, but again the same problem, Device manager says the drivers are not installed.

Any ideas?
Thanks

Windows Delay Write Error

tripwwf — Tue, 26 May 2009 10:48:42 GMT

I tried installing a game from cd and I get a Delay Write Error. So I tried installing from the internet and I get the same error.

Windows Xp sp3