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Hi, no not really a trick question, and I am afraid of suffering from a bit of PC gaming naivety. I haven't bought a PC game for years when a guy in my IT dept told me that the consoles were max'ed out for gaming, and also easier to write code for (Due to std hardware). Since then I kind of lost...

Wow, I wasn't sure which was the better system for this game, and didn't realise my PC could perform that well. I built this i7 PC as my first system build and tried to keep it reasonable for all tasks. I am not really up on graphics cards, so had no idea of how good the ATI was when I...

Hi all, I am excited because a new F1 game, F1 2010, and I am a keen follower of the sport. I have an i7 core 920 with 4gb of DDR3 Ram. On the graphics side I have a ATI Radeon Sapphire HD 4850 512MB GDDR3. Is this system powerful enough to run the F1 2010 game, or am I better served...

I used to have a Terretec DMX6 fire built in PCI soundcard and breakout box which fitted in a 5.25 bay on the front of the PC. It was superb, but is not supported in Vista 64bit, so I am really upset by that. It had mic and headphone jack and had a built in headphone and mic amp. Each had...

Thanks for the tip. I thought about using the Jmicron Driver as a possible fix, but thought it safer to update with the latest version from Gigabyte. They may well be the same, but used just in case they weren't. I have Vista loaded in Raid 1 mirror array, using the Intel ports. I wanted to...

Update Sorry not to kill this thread, but this should be the last post. I didn't want to leave the matter resolved with the wrong solution. I got a new DVD writer to replace the LG one and the problem still existed. I was a bit down, when I realised the JMicron GSATA ports on the UD5 is a...

Solution Unfortunately the community could not assist on this occassion, but think I have found solution and am posting so if someone has a similar issue, it may appear in a search. After doing lots of research into sleep related issues, I narrowed it down. It occurred to me that there seem...

As an update. I also still had some on-going resume from sleep issues, so I thought screw it, and do a Vista reinstall. I did the drive format and Vista re-install, and when I was reloading Mobo drivers the bios failed to start and said checksum error. It seem to self heal, but is this an...

Hi all, I have a newish build. It was a few months ago, but I have been out of the country for a bit, so the machine has hardly been used. I am looking to start the next project of building an xp based machine for my five year old twins, but am getting a bit bogged down closing off the last...

Thanks Guy. I updated Bios, Chipset, Lan Driver and Audio driver. Between them this may have fixed the issue. I need to leave it for a few days and monitor. One thing, when I had to keep restarting the machine after each driver update I noticed that the two DVD rom drives weren't always...

Hi, I have built a system for what seems a while back now. Was in the process of building a second less powerful one, when got a small issue with the first. The systems won't shut down after waking from sleep, and sometimes goes to Blue Screen. I have updated Vista 64 to SP2 and updated...

Actually, I just reread the prior posts again, and if specialist passwords, software and hardware are needed to play with the bios, you might be better trying to find the bios specialists on ebay.

I heard of two fixes. One involved removing the bios and placing it in chip cworking similar system, then flashing it and replacing in old set up. Here is the link:- http://www.dslreports.com/faq/9352 The other way involved removing bios chip and sending to a person on ebay who can...

Hey Guys, I don't know if I did the right thing, but ordered this today. http://www.ebuyer.com/product/143850 I hope it is a good buy. For the price it is only marginally dearer than a PC only monitor, and I figured that it was around £50 ($75) dearer than a display only monitor, so...

Thanks guys for the tips. I got a bit confused because when I looked the resolutions, the monitors seemed to be higher than LCD TVs. A TV in the study would be very useful to me. so The consensus seems to be go for TV if TV is used more than games. I guess there are other factors, like...