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    +7850 Overclocking

    Just ordered some mosfet coolers for my motherboard. They should be here by Saturday or probably Monday at latest. I cut my hand while trimming a narrow slice off an old heat sink and I put it on the mosfet it did seem to get stable at lower voltages. The strip I cut was kinda small and covered...
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    Solutions for Display driver errors

    I was having some problems with my ATI 4850 drivers for awhile they were giving my BSOD (blue screen of death) for about a month.I was only getting Bosd in games like warcraft and cod. I realized I didn't have Universal plug in play on my bios enabled after I enabled that I did the following...
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    +7850 Overclocking

    Yea I don't know if the guy on newegg was joking but he said he got his to go to 3.9 ghz stable at 230x17. I don't know if he is joking or not but i might check it out lol when i get those mosfets.
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    loves old graphics cards :)

    lol I got 2 pretty old card I have a geforce 8400 gs it's so old my fan stopped working in it i gotta order a new one, and i also have a ATI 9250 pro that I'm letting a friend use because he was using a shitty onboard gfx card. Both of these cards run great and have not had any problems at all...
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    +7850 Overclocking

    Hi again I messed around with my cpu some more last night and I got it to 3.4 ghz STABLE!!. All I had to do was put on ACC to auto and my computer booted right away. I ran Prime 95 for 2 hrs last night and I got a max temp of 26'c but the heat came on in my house today and I ran it with the...
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    +7850 Overclocking

    I have a Biostar ta790gx a2+ and I'm running a +7850 Black Edition at 3.2 ghz. I have my ram overclocked to 1066 at 5-5-5-15. I would like to know if i can get any higher then that because I can't get it to go any higher. I don't have a heat pipe over my mosfets could this be the reason why I...
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    4850 isn't working

    Ya lol that would suck. I was thinking about buying another psu but good thing I saved myself about 100 dollars for another one :).
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    4850 isn't working

    Turns out that wasn't it either. On the back of my power supply I have a voltage switch it's not automatic and I must of switched it to 230 awhile ago for some reason. Turns out in America the voltage for power outlets is 115/120 so I switched my voltage switch in the back to 115 and everything...
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    4850 isn't working

    Well thanks for the help guys I got it working. I had my friend come over and help he also is good with computers (a little bit smarter then me) but we got it working. It wasn't that card I needed to install then we waited for vista to boot which took like 5 mins. After we uninstalled the...
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    4850 isn't working

    No I can see the bios and everything just doesn't boot up at all it goes to a hardware monitor page but that's normal during start up but it should boot into vista after that.
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    4850 isn't working

    Yea I updated my Bios to the latest Version. My pci e power cable is in the card when I start up and still nothing idk whats going on should I uninstall my drivers and everything and try reinstalling.
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    4850 isn't working

    Well I tried that and it still didn't boot I don;t know whats going on. When I put in my gfx card should I clear the cmos first? And I got my power connector going to my card.
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    4850 isn't working

    Ok thanks guys im gonna shut down and try this back in like 5 mins tell you if it works.
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    4850 isn't working

    what do you mean?
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    4850 isn't working

    Yes I did that and still no cigar.
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