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| Re: New Computer Research [message #205654 is a reply to message #203573] |
Mon, 26 June 2006 22:00   |
Berkut
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Hmm? I dunno. Happens. I just recently quit caffeine and it's messin with my head. Lost pretty much all of my discretion, judgement, and it has temporarily konked out my common sense, so yeah, sorry. 
To be remotely relevant, my Dell cost me $1,000 last year, and it runs pretty much any game I put on it. Then again, most people think Dell sucks.
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| Re: New Computer Research [message #206151 is a reply to message #203573] |
Fri, 30 June 2006 14:38 |
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Doitle
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Ok, so Jer built his computer. As he pasted on page 4. Windows XP wouldn't install on it because of the SATA drive. The computer he built has no floppy drive and theres no spot to even attach the floppy cable to the mobo. Everytime the setup wouldn't continue because it couldn't recognize the Hard Drive. NOW however, after he dropped it off here because he got tired of messing with it, I started it, went through just like it did at his house a few times. But then it started doing something different, something... more sinister. Now it says that txtsetup.sif is corrupted and setup cannot continue. It says this everytime it trys to begin the windows xp setup. I've done some reading and someone said that the memory he has in here does not get auto detected by the mobo correctly, so I manually set the timing and memory voltage in the bios, but then it wouldnt even get to the xp setup it would just restart over and over. I am completely at a loss, nothing I do works...
Update: While writing this I decided to turn it back on. It'd been sitting for about 15 minutes off. It works, went into the Windows XP setup, and got to the page where it wants me to insert the disk labled Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 2 CD into Drive: A. His computer has no floppy drive so there isn't even a Drive A: for it to ask for... What should I do? I really want to help Jer and I want to get this running because A. This is pretty much the same as my computer was gonna be so :/ Eeep B. I wanted to play CS:S on it before he picked it up. 
Anyone who can get this thing up and running or help me out here will receive my sincere gratitude, on installment plan, for the next 6 months.
A video of it all happening: http://doitle.tugok.com/101_0445small.avi
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| Re: New Computer Research [message #206228 is a reply to message #203573] |
Sat, 01 July 2006 10:30 |
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Spice
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Ok, it from the video I see that it detects the HDD. Go to onboard device configuration > IDE Function setup, tell me or show what is under there. Same with the Serial-ATA configuration right below.
Also make sure your boot startup is set to CD-ROM > HDD.
I can't remember how I fixed it but I had the same problem. It was an option in the BIOS, make sure it's set to SATA. Even after that though, it was still a bitch to get the OS on the drive.
After I got it on the drive, everything was good though.
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| Re: New Computer Research [message #206256 is a reply to message #203573] |
Sat, 01 July 2006 19:16 |
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Great games for benchmarking are Quake 4 Demo, Half life 2 Demo and the Battlefield 2 Demo. Halo is also pretty good, even though it's quite old.
If you want something new, grab the prey demo. That was released last week and kicks ass. It's on the Doom 3 engine.
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| Re: New Computer Research [message #211041 is a reply to message #203573] |
Wed, 02 August 2006 23:14 |
mision08
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Sounds like you may need to invest in a DVD burner. I think the intelligent purchase would be two, three or four identical 80 Gigabyte HDD. I'm not positive how much of the Internet will fit on 320 Gigabytes, But I'm sure it would hold everything I've downloaded this year, and last year, and the year before that. It just makes sense when you start to figure RAID arrays. It's all about options buddy.
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| Re: New Computer Research [message #211729 is a reply to message #203573] |
Fri, 04 August 2006 23:48 |
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Get a Logitech G5 mouse, a regular DVD drive. If you have enough money, two Geforce 7950GX2, and if not, 7900GTX (as you don't want to upgrade in future), and if it's too expensive, 7800GTX/7900GT.
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| Re: New Computer Research [message #212348 is a reply to message #203573] |
Tue, 08 August 2006 15:37 |
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Sorry for bumping this back up, but...
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Recently, a fever pitch of rumors surrounding AMD's "Reverse Hyper-Threading" was also dismissed when it was discovered the original source of the rumor was a poor translation of a future README file to an AMD dual-core optimization utility.
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Source: Dailytech
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