Re: Sony Grand Wega LCD Projection TV
It is a 3 year protection plan. I have a feeling that the guy will turn it on and it will work , so he won't repair it. It only has failed to turn on about 10 times total. The chances that it will do it for the technician are slim. Once the TV is on it has never shut itself off or had any strange behavior.
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Sony Grand Wega LCD Projection TV
Hi Guys, My girlfriend's parents are having a problem with their less than two year old TV. Sometimes when you turn it on cold the green power light will come on but the unit will have no picture. If you unplug the unit from power and plug it back in, it starts and operates normally. Is this a problem with the power supply? They purchased a service plan that is still going but they said they thought it was a bulb which they do not cover. I don't think its a bulb since the unit works after being unplugged and plugged back in. Do you it could be bad caps in the power supply or the inverter? In fact... -
Re: Mac G3 or G4?
I'm not sure which processor is better but I may have some insight into the video issue. Someone may have upgraded the video card in the g4. Some video cards might not be recognized right away and the video card might make the g4 a better choice depending on what it is.Leave a comment:
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Re: Zippy PS for Gaming?
Thanks for the feedback guys. I have a small computer business and I have become really disgusted not so much with the known crappy supplies, but the crappy supplies branded with respected names like Antec and Enermax. I had a customer that wanted a budget machine for email and internet and I put together for her an athlon xp system with 1 gig of ram and an Enermax power supply. After just over a year the machine would not power on. She had just emailed me with how happy she was with the machine and the level of service that she got from me. 1 week later...Leave a comment:
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Zippy PS for Gaming?
Hey Guys, I have a quick question. I am tired of the crap power supplies with very expensive price tags. Is this Zippy power supply good enough for a new gaming machine:
[url]http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&Item=140129962942&Category=44949&_trksid=p3907.m29[/url]
What about the 700 watt version? :
[url]http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&Item=140157927853&Category=44949&_trksid=p3907.m29[/url]
Id rather pay a bit more and have it actually be of good quality. Any thoughts?Hey Guys, I have... -
Re: Too many Video Cards
Oh well, my friend really wants his computer back so I decided to get him a new video card. Now I have his old one to mess around with.Leave a comment:
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Re: Too many Video Cards
What seems very strange is that The card seems to have failed in a non-standard way. There is no glitching. The card can provide a basic video signal but it reports itself as multiple card. This is not something that I have encountered before. I guess heat can do strange things to video cards.Leave a comment:
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Re: Too many Video Cards
One other thing. This is a brand new installation of windows. Each time I tested the card I reformatted the drive just to be sure that it wasn't a driver issue. I installed the latest direct x, chipset drivers and then video card drivers.Leave a comment:
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Re: Too many Video Cards
Ugghhh. I tried this card in a different motherboard and it shows the same thing. This time I used an nforce 3 board that had no onboard video. I then tested 2 different cards in both motherboards and Everything worked fine. The cards I tested were a geforce fx 5900 and a radeon 9800xt. It is starting to look like a partial video card fry. My friend smokes and the video card had a lot of dust in the heatsink and He plays Counterstrike constantly. Add that to the fact that we had a lot of days over 90 degrees around here and that is probably it for the c...Leave a comment:
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Too many Video Cards
Ok, here's a new one. I am upgrading a friends system and he didn't want to spend a lot so I got him a Biostar k8m800-m7a socket 754 board and an AMD Athlon 64 3000+ chip. I used his old memory and video card. After installing windows and going into the device manager it lists 8 entries for the video card. It is a Sapphire X800 GTO AGP card. I realize that there should be only two entries. One primary and one secondary. For some reason the motherboard thinks there are 4 video cards installed. If I install the catalyst drivers, I get blue screen of death and have to uninstall them in safe mode.... -
Re: Checking NVRam..
I spoke too soon. It posted once. I went into the bios and configured everything and now its back to its old checking NVRAM thing with no ide devices plugged in.Leave a comment:
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Re: Checking NVRam..
*&*%^$&#)_&*^_#$ !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I just got the new motherboard and read your post. I unplugged all the IDE devices and it posted! I was lazy and didn't feel like breaking down the whole system so I just assumed it was the board. The NVRAM thing is misleading. I guess sometimes you have to learn the hard way. Oh well. I am a donkey and I guess I have a new motherboard. My friend will be happy though. Thanks for the information. I think it is his cd drive that pooped out. Oh Well.Leave a comment:
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Re: Checking NVRam..
Its not an IDE device. When I tested a different power supply I plugged in only the motherboard and video card. I did not apply power to an optical or hard drive. There couldn't be a problem with an IDE device if the data cable was connected and not the power could there?Leave a comment:
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Checking NVRam..
I have my friends pc here. It will not boot. It has an MSI KT4V motherboard and hangs while posting with the message checking NVRam.. It used to start after a couple of retries. Now it will not get past this. I have tried swapping memory with a known good stick and cleared the CMOS and replaced the battery with a fresh one. I even replaced the bios chip from my old KT4V and it still hangs. All the caps look good and they are United Chemicon. Any Ideas? -
Re: DVD drive looks like a CD drive to windows
There is a patch available for that version of nero that will update it. It probably won't help but you could give it a shot.Leave a comment:
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Re: msi k7t-pro ver:1 missing cap
Are you sure the capacitor is missing? A lot of times circuit boards do not use all the silk screened spots on the board. Obviously if there is a piece of capacitor hanging off of it then the cap is missing but most motherboards have places where a cap hasn't been installed and wasn't meant to be based on the design of the board. The board would have had to have had a pretty rough storage period for a cap to have fallen off. I have noticed how durable they are when I chuck them across the room in anger.Leave a comment:
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Re: Antec Neo 480
Well, this saga has come to a close. I recapped the Antec and I must have fucked up. I felt that my soldering was good, but when I powered it on when it was plugged into my power supply tester I got a couple sparks and then DEAD silence. That was enough for me. I removed the new caps and tossed the Antec. I decided to keep the section of the power supply case that held the 120 mm fan so that I can use it as a template for cutting holes in older computer cases for 120 mm fans. I did the same thing with an old deer power supply except that one used an 80 mm fan....Leave a comment:
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Re: Kt4v
Case Closed. I couldn't take it any more. I removed all the good caps from this motherboard and then stomped on it and threw it in the trash. I feel better now.Leave a comment:
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VooDoo 5 Old School Gamer
Ok, so I repair older machines. Sometimes I will set up a machine for vintage gaming. This machine for example has a voodoo 5 card, 384 MB of ram and a 500 MHZ pentium 3 and it is running windows 98. My question is this: I pulled the old power supply out and replaced it with a newer Antec 350 watt power supply. Will the CPU actually be getting less power than it was from the older Power Supply even though the new power supply is supposedly of higher quality and higher wattage? The old power supply was a Deer, so I know this one is much better. I know that newer Power Supplies skimp on the 5 volt... -
Re: Kt4v
So did I do myself a disservice by replacing the power supply that was in there before with the NEO? I upgraded the power supply on that machine when I purchased a 6800GT video card. I was using an Antec truepower 430 before that. I then put in a 7800GS card. The power supply only lasted about two years. How would I go about testing the cpu voltage? I do have a multimeter. Should I be testing the cpu voltage on the motherboard or the power supply?Leave a comment:
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