PC Troubleshooting/Advice Thread - Have a problem with your PC? Ask here!

**A-D-L** · 09-16-2006

I believe you have repete all on. I'm trying to remember how to rid of it but no idea. iTunes instead of WMP so just look around. Either that or WMP does it default and no way to rid of it.

Question whenever anyone can help. I am going to be upgrading my PC. A Dimension 4500 (old I know). Though i need to know what upgrades are compatible with the motherboard. Is there a website I can use or something?

Don't give me crucial.com as that is only for Memory and such.

**SessDMC** · 09-17-2006

its best to look in the PC manual, it should tell you the sockets, slots, ports features you need to know to upgrade.

**Tobian** · 09-17-2006

Tweakers.net can also be pretty handy when upgrading PC components.

**Logo** · 09-29-2006

I have a question concerning 1080p. Now, its rare that you can find a monitor that displays higher than 1900x1080p, but let's say I was going to use the Apple Cinema HD monitor that displays at a native 2560x1600p as a monitor for the PS3. Would this be better than a native 1080p display? My guess is no based on the Apple monitor having to blend pixels, but I'm not 100% sure.

Another question I'm going to throw out there. I have a 19" display at 1280x1024 native resolution. On what resolution would the PS3 display on this? 720p is too wide. Would it become a letterboxed 720p? How compromised would the image be? Has Sony announced the options in the display tab in their console yet?

Thanks,
-Logo

**Varsh** · 09-29-2006

The 19" will display letterboxed, there is no way around this except to buy a display in the native 16:9 resolution amd not 4:3 like the current monitors. As for the Dell, the pixel blending means nothing, it's just a technology they use to display the picture, all that you need to know is that you'll be ablt to run 1080p games in all their glory across the entire monitor.

**Sash** · 09-29-2006

Does anyone know of a site that will test my PC and give me it's specifications? There was one link in the 'Your Computer?' but I can't seem to find it. Anyone?

**SolidifiedPenguin** · 09-29-2006

dont need a site.

Click start, go to RUN. in the box type dxdiag then ok.

It ll have all the info there, cpu, ram, sound, video...everything...and more.

**ps3isawesome** · 09-29-2006

How do you connect a ps2 to a pc and see it on the computer's screen?

**Sash** · 09-29-2006

dont need a site.

Click start, go to RUN. in the box type dxdiag then ok.

It ll have all the info there, cpu, ram, sound, video...everything...and more.

Oh, right. Thanks alot for that, man.

**Sash** · 09-30-2006

Sorry for the double post.

Whenever I try to set a resolution higher than 1024 by 768, usually half my screen shows onto the monitor, and if I want to see the rest of it, I have to scroll down. Is this a video card problem?

**Varsh** · 09-30-2006

Originally Posted by ps3isawesome

How do you connect a ps2 to a pc and see it on the computer's screen?

In order to show your PS2 onto your PC you must first have a video card that is capable of ViVO (Video In Video Out), if you have this then use the dongle that comes with your card and attach it by your monitor VGA/DVI ports at the back. Then attach your PS2 Composite/S-Video lead to the Composite/S-Video input and the left and right phono leads into your speakers or use a double phono to a small male phono jack (2 to 1) and plug that into your Line-In on your soundcard.

Once you've done that you will need to install the WDM drivers (same place as the nVIDIA drivers) and reboot your computer. After you get back in Windows install VNC Player and open a capture device, refresh the list on both the Video and the Audio device name, then select the Line In and WDM nVIDIA capture driver, click Advanced Options and set the caching value in ms to 0 otherwise the picture will lag behind the audio. Click OK on both and voila, there you go, your PS2 on the screen. ^_^

Or alternatively you can buy a TV card.

Originally Posted by Sash

Whenever I try to set a resolution higher than 1024 by 768, usually half my screen shows onto the monitor, and if I want to see the rest of it, I have to scroll down. Is this a video card problem?

What happens with the nVIDIA cards is that if you select a resolution above that of your monitor, it will display it like you are zoomed in hence the scrolling, or simply that you have scrolling set to on, this happened to me till I turned off zooming.

**Sash** · 09-30-2006

Originally Posted by Varsh

What happens with the nVIDIA cards is that if you select a resolution above that of your monitor, it will display it like you are zoomed in hence the scrolling, or simply that you have scrolling set to on, this happened to me till I turned off zooming.

How do I turn zooming/scrolling off?

**Varsh** · 09-30-2006

In the nVIDIA properties go to Desktop Management --> Zoom.

Or alternatively disable nView Desktop Management.

**Sash** · 09-30-2006

Originally Posted by Varsh

In the nVIDIA properties go to Desktop Management --> Zoom.

Or alternatively disable nView Desktop Management.

I don't think I have any nVIDIA settings. I do have something called SIS on the taskbar.

**Varsh** · 09-30-2006

Err...what graphics card have you got?

Shame I'm going to London on Monday for a week, I could've had a quick look at it for you, and I'll be back late Saturday...

Though I get the feeling you have a SIS onboard GFX chip...ack is the only word I can think of that. I have no clue about the SIS GFX drivers.

**ps3isawesome** · 09-30-2006

Thank a lot varsh I will thy that.

**paranoia13** · 09-30-2006

Originally Posted by Varsh

What happens with the nVIDIA cards is that if you select a resolution above that of your monitor, it will display it like you are zoomed in hence the scrolling, or simply that you have scrolling set to on, this happened to me till I turned off zooming.

Never heard of that with nvidia, my sony vaio with an ATI card does this(even though the set resolution IS NOT above the viewsonic monitors maximum resolution)

**Sash** · 09-30-2006

Originally Posted by Varsh

Err...what graphics card have you got?

Shame I'm going to London on Monday for a week, I could've had a quick look at it for you, and I'll be back late Saturday...

Though I get the feeling you have a SIS onboard GFX chip...ack is the only word I can think of that. I have no clue about the SIS GFX drivers.

I read somewhere that it may have something to do with the size of my monitor. I'll plug in a different monitor tomorrow and see if that fixes the problem.

**LegendaryArcturus** · 10-04-2006

Guys? I am getting error from the harddrive for my laptop computer so I am unable to boot up the OS. What can I do then? How do I collect the data from the harddrive? How do I format the harddrive? How do I fix the problem?

My laptop computer: Toshiba Satellite 2410 model (1.9GHz CPU)

What I am working on right now is looking into moving the hard drive from the laptop computer to the desktop computer. I am unsure on where the batteries and hard drive are hidden within the computer, and how to connect the hard drive from laptop to desktop. Do anyone have experience with this kind of thing?

**turkmen117** · 10-08-2006

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**ps3isawesome** · 10-08-2006

That sounds good and 100 dollars it isnt much go for it.

**Firefox** · 10-14-2006

Originally Posted by LegendaryArcturus

Guys? I am getting error from the harddrive for my laptop computer so I am unable to boot up the OS. What can I do then? How do I collect the data from the harddrive? How do I format the harddrive? How do I fix the problem?

My laptop computer: Toshiba Satellite 2410 model (1.9GHz CPU)

What I am working on right now is looking into moving the hard drive from the laptop computer to the desktop computer. I am unsure on where the batteries and hard drive are hidden within the computer, and how to connect the hard drive from laptop to desktop. Do anyone have experience with this kind of thing?

I hope this can can solve this:
http://www.cyberwalker.com/faqs/how-...stall-faq.html

**LegendaryArcturus** · 10-21-2006

Firefox: You are bit late but thank for support. I'll look into that if the problem occur again. I just got a new laptop computer.

**IPB** · 10-25-2006

If anyone can help me it would be much appreciated. I have an Radeon X300 and I recently updated the driver. However, now that I have done this I find that whenever I play Counter Strike: Source the game crashes. And to tell you the truth it's bloody well getting on my nerves. Can anybody help? I'll be very grateful if you can.