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Ran MemTest+ for 3 and half hours yesterday and nothing came up. Changed my SATA cables and switched to ACPI 2 in the BIOS to see if that helped as is usually the ACPI.sys file that causes the...

Last night I ran a ChkDsk on my C: drive, it fixed a few erroneous file attributions, took ages to verify the free disk space and then crashed. The system wouldn't start up again until this morning...

Yeh thats what my thoughts were, I installed the most recent WHQL nvidia driver but still no joy I'm afraid. Have tested the RAM thoroughly in MemTest+ at 800 and 1066 with both sticks in and each...

Have been suspecting the GPU drivers for a while as a while back when I installed a new update for the 8800GT the problems seems to go away so I overclocked the system again for a few weeks before...

Oh just had another crash. An anonymous error with STOP: 0x000000D1 caused by ACPI.sys. I have read that it has some relation to the motherboard and hard drive controllers? Any thoughts about this...

What firewall would anyone recommend, preferably free? Have been using ZoneAlarm but have got rid of it as it's been one of the many apparent causes of errors on my PC so now using the XP firewall...

Did you have a series of BSODs before hand too? Have been getting a few DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL Stop: 0x000000D1 PartMgr.sys errors and Stop:0x0000008E win32k.sys and same stop error with no...

Not yet am using a 700W PSU so wouldn't have thought it would have been the problem. Could it?

Some of you may remember helping me out with a few BSOD errors a little while back. After leaving it a bit I updated my graphics drivers which seemed to solve the problem for a few weeks. Now they...

Was watching BBC news and listening to them talking about the facility being 100m below the surface and thought how similar it sounded to Black Mesa. I wonder if the machine makes that trademark Half...

Will probably happen later once that Swiss experiment gets going properly I guess. Can't help thinking of Half Life whenever I read the news atm. :D

Just a quick update, turns out when I sorted it before it wasn't actually sorted. When I eventually managed to get the system running for a long enough period I got a look at the Device Manager,...

Awesome, think I know what I'll be buying after next payday! Cheers nevermind, you've been a big help. +Rep!!!

Yeh they did the same thing for my parents PC as they only had dial up at the time. You know if the sames true with the upgrade version? Was reading the Microsoft site and it said 'retail packaged...

Ah right, free of charge I hope?

My PCs purely for t'internet, gaming and music plus doing the odd bit of word processing and excel. Have been looking at Home Premium but can't see if it comes with both 32 and 64 bit editions in the...

Actually on Amazon.co.uk the full retail is cheaper than the upgrade atm. Then there are so many listed on there. The final subject on this topic is Home Premium 64 or Ultimate? Are the added extras...

The Music - Cessation

Oops... Spot the newbie!! :D

Now to get a bit of a debate going, what is the best lager? Or is beer (aka. ale) better? Personally, I definitely vote for lager, favourites being Nastro Azzurro or Stella if I'm on a night out....

Ok have just heard more rumours (different source this time) that as the OEM is meant to be sold with new, pre-built PCs if you upgrade major parts, such as the motherboard, it won't re-register...

Awesome, cheers for the comments. Haven't got any old hardware is a PC built from scratch around March time so in that respect it should probably work better with 64bit was just the software side of...

I've noticed some pretty similar posts to this but nothing quite answers the main questions I have. Am currently running XP 32bit quite happily but would like to increase memory and also upgrade to...

Just to let you guys know that I dismantled pretty much everything, removed the battery and cleared the CMOS and everything does seem to be running ok now have got XP installed and updated. Nothing's...

Cheers for the tips guys will give that a try. I was overclocking the CPU when this happened but had been running fine at 3.43Ghz for a good few months with very reasonable temps. The RAM was running...