Recent content by Lt.Doomsday

due to this hot weather,something is up with my PSU.i'm smelling from the back of it that hot,hair dryer running smell. i've included a pic.

Staples Acer AL1916 $250 bucks but after rebates total price came to $199.

so far,everything is good. had it running on 60hz and was getting very faint rolling horizontal lines. up the refresh to 70hz and no problem.

http://www.acronis.com/ my cousin who is an IT swears by them.i personally have never used them nor any type of pc recovery software.

ok,i just picked up an Acer AL1916 at Staples for $199 after all the rebates{$249 i had to pay first} so far,everything looks a ton better then my old Mag CRT.hey,if my parents and sister can notice the change it must be pretty big. no dead pixels{like with my sister's first ViewSonic} no...

i think i may have found the problem: i don't know how,but FireFox's Cache setting was at 80mb.changed it to 10 and no more clicking.

i have about 1gig of memory.

i don't get it either. whenever i scroll either the sidebar were my bookmarks are or a website,i can hear my HD ticking.The HD is a Western Digital 160gig playing a game,browsing with Opera{which is on the same HD as FireFox},buring data to a CD it doesn't make a ticking noise at all...

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well,i tried 2 other splitters i had laying around: 1. turned from 2 dBmV to -13 dBmV 2. turned from 2 dBmV to -20 dBmV i'll buy a new splitter. that doesn't work,for me to watch t.v. i may have to tap off my sister's cable line and just run the modem directly from the wall to the...

cleaned the coax and hooked the line directly to the back of the modem. from -4dBmV to 2 dBmV so it looks like it maybe the spillter but i'm going to call them up right now to do a packet lost test. Edit: The Packet Loss Test:76 Sent and Received. Router Test:56 Send and Recieved...

i only have one 3 way splitter.it split's the signal from the wall to the the back of my t.v.and the modem i've tried differant splitters in the past and just trying it without my t.v. screwed in and it dropped also. i'll try to clean the coax connection

i actually bought the modem at bestbuy. i planned on upgrading and i seem to remember they throw in that new Motorola Black modem with the package.

just asking. my motorola SB4200 has been dropping connection for months now.had the tech guys come out,changed lines,new ethernet/cable lines and still the same issue.rebuilt the system and two differant OS's and the same problem. the old mobo was a Abit KT-7 Non Raid,Os was Windows 98 and...