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Hi. Due to Ryzen 3500U based laptop failure, I've been loaned an dell box with a i7-9700 and 16GB ram; It's mine to do with what i want, but may be recalled at any time it's needed. My kids used the old laptop for Fortnite @ 1080p, which mostly did the job; while the iGPU of the 9700 seems...

Hi. I've just had an old Lenovo V15 Laptop with Ryzen 3500U die on me with what appears to be a completely dead mobo (i've been suffering issues for a few months, like death of onboard keyboard and fans going all the time). A replacement Mobo for the laptop is circa £200, which is more than a...

Hi All.. Way back in 2014 I spec'd up a machine for a friend (https://hardforum.com/threads/new-build-query-unreal-4-engine-dev-machine.1830024/#post-1041227686) , sadly things have slowly died and we're in a position that the Mobo appears to have died. CPU: AMD FX8350 GPU: Nvidia 1060 GTX...

Hi. I'm off around a mates tonight who has just bought a new house, but it's not got internet yet so looking for some thing that will keep us entertained in co-op blood shedding after an evening of unboxing and shelve building. We used to play the halo/graw/cod series and dungeon siege 3/...

Hi. A friend of mine wants to get into game dev, and is looking at a machine capable of running the Unreal 4 engine. He' not a hardware bod, so asked me for some help, but i'm not a dev... So: 1) What will you be doing with this PC? Gaming? Photoshop? Web browsing? etc Unreal 4 Engine...

Hi. I'm trying to find a suitable mini-upgrade from my extant ATI 4830 that will support playing star-conflict and Tomb Raider at 1080p resolutions on a single display ( i have a second 19" monitor that i don't use when playing games) My current desktop is an AMD x3 720 BE running at 3.2 Ghz...

Hi. I've got an HP N40L Microserver that for a while has been running OI+NAppit off a USB Flash drive to test it all out, and has been awesome for approx almost a year with a few VM's running on it (Windows HS, Ubuntu, windows 7) (16GB ECC Ram + 4x 3TB WD Red Drives in raidz + an intel NIC)...

Hi, I've got a N40L microserver running OI 151a17 from a 8GB flash drive with 16GB ECC ram and 4x 3TB WD30EFRX NAS Drives, and having no end of problems with processor loading on the box going by sluggish response and the gnome-system-monitor logs showing between a 50% and a 100% load on...

Hi all, I've "helped" repair a MSI PR210 display that previously had a bust inverter cable, and therefore no backlight, so wasn't really useable. However, having put it all back together i've now got a full backlight display, but now have no video output - the top of the LCD now has a solid...

Hi.. I've just done something incredibly stupid without performing proper investigation/backup, think i've borked my user profile. Over the last 3 weeks my c:\drive had gone from 15gig free to 0.5 gig free, went to investigate why, and CS4's Camera Raw cache and Picasa's database were to...

Hi, Sorry for starting another "Help review my build" message that this forum gets flooded with, but i'm a little out of date. I'm looking for a new PC to spend a very, very long time photoshopping a bunch of photos (circa 3 thousand) from various modern SLR cameras and at various resolutions...

Hi, I've got myself stuck - i upgraded to Windows 7 a few months ago via a clean install of a perfectly working XP machine, and cannot get any DVD writing software to recognise my SATA connected DVD Writer, but works perfectly with my PATA drive. The SATA drive shows up under explorer, and I...

Hi, I've been "given" an Acer desktop to repair by a friend of mine, but i'm having no end of difficulties: Symptons Machine fails to boot into Windows Vista ( ~75% of time) Machine fails to boot into Clonezilla ( Sticks at white screen) Machine fails to boot into Knoppix 6.2.1...

Hi. I've managed to get hold of a brand new Iomega StorCenter Pro 250d with 2x250gb hard drives in it for an absolute steal (£60) from a reputable dealer - i've bought it primarily for the cost of the case alone.. It comes with a Celeron 3.2Ghz processor, 512MB RAM and 3 PCI slots and...

Hi, I'm looking at getting an HP 550 laptop ( http://www.ebuyer.com/product/164844 ) that comes with 2 GB of DDR2 533 memory. The HP5670 is a 1.8Ghz, 800Mhz FSB C2Duo chip. However, as i'm buying 2, and the knowledge i play with my machines too much, i'm looking to upgrade to 4 GB in...

Hi, Been having problems ( long waiting period until it posts, intermittant CPU, etc) with my gigabyte DS4H mobo, so thought i'd check the bios out. I've updated it a few times, but i'm now getting checksum errors when flashing a new bios (ie checksum does not equal 00 error) and thought...

Hi, I've recently had a few issues with my Gigabyte MA790GP-DS4H and a Phenom II 720BE, where it wouldn't boot after a month of almost perfect operation. Having RMA'd the cpu after testing the board with a different chip, the supplier's confirmed it's a dead chip. I wasn't overvolting it...

Hi. Just swapped out my 720 X3 (which has been working without hitch for 3 months) with a Sempron 3500+ to check the 3500+ worked (which it did) and put the 720X3 back in, to find that the DS4H now goes into an infinite short beep loop (Power Problem). Putting the 3500+ back in, the system...

Hi, Quick question, is anybody having any luck with a Radeon 48xx card in Windows 7 with Opengl games? I can't get my old favorites of Space Tripper to run at anything more than 1 fps, and running google earth in opengl mode looks like texture corruption. Currently dling specview to do...

hi. Recently got a phenom 2 720 x3 that unlocks easily to a prime stable quad on a f3 bios on a gigabyte 790gp ds4h mobo. however, once unlocked the system will not post after a windows shutdown without removing power at the wall. Is anyone else having this problem with unlocked...

Hi. System Specs: AMD X2 3800+ S939 Asus A8n-VM-CSM board 2x 1GB Corsair VS400C3 DDR400 sticks. Enermax 535W EG565AX-VE(G) PSU Palit 7600GT PCIe 5x IDE drives 2x DVD writers. I've had it best part of 6 months now, and everything, once booted, runs smoothly with the cpu clocked to...

Hi. I've currently got an area on a shelf in my kitchen that I want to turn into a PC/TV area - TV for morning news and evening tv as i cook/eat , but also a low power wi-fi enabled PC to check my calender every morning b4 i go to work and use for checking recipies. I can't work out the...

Hi. I currently use a lot of 3.5" IDE drives in an external case for backups etc, but i'm about to stick them all on ebay as i'm going to upgrade to 750GB monsters. Before i do of course, i want to secure wipe them. However, DBAN and other programs can't access USB drives to perform a...

Morning. I've just hit a really annoying bug in windows Xp that i can't reset. The root of all of my drives have become "Music Folders" so the list on the left has "Music Tasks" on it, as well as setting the default folder view to thumbnails. A small thing, but bloody annoying. Is...

Hi. [Not sure if this should be in Software or Hardware forums.. move if in the wrong place] I've been using Motherboard monitor for about 3 years on my old machine, but having just upgraded to an X2 on a cheap asus mATX mobo, i can't get it to pick up the sensors. I've looked at...

Morning All. I've got a copy of Vista X64 from the public beta that i've just installed on a new 3800 x2 rig and it's going through the install procedure fine until you get to first boot, when it BSOD's on me. new machine is x2 3800+ on Asus A8NVM-CSM s939 nforce 430 & gf6150 igp...

Hey all. I'm not entirely sure if this is the best place to stick this request, but here goes. Over the last 4 years i've been building a larger and larger MP3 collection, and last year bought a 60GB ipod. However, last week's amazon order when converted to MP3 bumped me over the 60GB...

Morning all. I've still got an old Live Value card with only 4 connectors on the back, meaning that if i want to go to a rear speaker setup i lose my microphone - i've recently been donated an identical pair of speakers to my fronts from my brother as he's gone large 5.1 upgrade goodness...

Morning. I've been scavenging around the net since last thursday with all of the reviews about conroe, but i can't find a single reviewer that has tried to use a Conroe on a 64 bit operating system. If 64 Bit is supposed to be the way forward, especially with Vista coming, how come there...

Morning All. I'm looking for a new scanner for negatives and photograph work, as well as the usual A4 letters/images. Can anbody point me in the direction of a website that does in depth reviews of scanners, including colour balancing etc? Or of course you can recommend one yourself -...

Hey. I'm looking into going down the PVR route again now i've got some spare cash, and come up with a problem. I'm either looking at 1 machine which will be both PVR & local home Web/Music/Samba Server, or 1 PVR and 1 mini-itx based NAS & Server, both of which will be always on. I'm...

Morning all. I'm just about to dump a AMD XP 3000+ & mobo from my PC, clearing it all out and running on a laptop until i get the cash for new PC bits in a months time. However, i'm looking into a combined PVR/Server, and am wondering if I should use it and the mobo ( an ABIT-K7333 Raid...

Hi I';m looking to purchase a sub 350 gaming machine capable of running BF2 at 1280x1024 (17" LCD) at a reasonable rate. I'm used to dealing with higher end machines for gaming and workstations, not at this end of the market. The main components i'm looking at are the following: 6600GT...

Hi, I'm trying to build a new mini-pc/server, and i want as efficent as possible ( within reason ) PSU to run it. Turion MT32 (was P_m 1.4ghz ) K8NF4G-SATA2 (wasDFI 855GME-MGF SKTmPGA479M mobo) 3x3.5" HDs 512m ram GFX is built into the mobo Expandability - 1x PCI SATA card + 3x3.5"...

As the title says... it points to http://www.hardocp.com/hardocp.rdf which is now 404. anyoy feel like showing me the proper rss link for the frontpage?

Hi. I'm trying to find a secondhand socket A mobo so i can build a sub £100 (~sub $150) machine for a friend of mine, so i want to stay with socket A as i have a barton 3000+ spare. What is the best to go with - nforce2 boards, or Via boards? So what do people recommend? Looking for a...

Morning. Just had a spam email fly through the system this morning proporting to be from ebay confirming bidding on an item i'd supposedly just purchased. However, the email said please go here for confirmation - and thankfully being a rather aware of the stuff floating about nowadays took...

Morning All. I've got an old KX7-333R mobo with a barton XP3000+ (333FSB) - however i've got 2 gig of DDR400 that's wanting to go faster... I've seen reviews of the KX7 that managed to push the FSB to over 200MHz - specifically testing the DDR400 capabilities of the chip - however the...

Hey all. I'm building a micro-atx pc for a friend to build into her desk - but i'm a little stuck for low profile gfx cards. I need something with some 3d power, preferably a nvidia 6200/6600 but can't find any low profile cards above a 5700LE. Has anybody spotted a new generation lp...

Hi. A friend of mine was stupid enough to upgrade his pc in such a stupid order that he's ended up spending more on firewire, usb2 & network cards that it would have been cheaper to get a new mobo with it all onboard (Socket A). And now he's run out of hard disk space - but can only...