So, I have been going through total hell lately. Aside from the fact my PC is having problems, my Xbox 360 got the red ring of death. But anyway, I want to focus on my computer.

So it all began one day when I was playing MapleStory. The connection between the PC and monitor suddenly gave out. The monitor went black and the light on it turned from green to yellow. I was agitated and tried to fix it. The music from my Media player was still going, so I knew my computer was still functioning. I pressed Ctrl, Alt, Del to bring up my task manager. After a little while, the connection would be restored after the task manager forced MapleStory to minimize.

This continued to happen a few times whenever I tried playing full screen MapleStory. Someone told me to change my computer’s resolution. So I did and that seemed to help. Afterward, I downloaded Mushroom Kingdom Fusion. Fun and interesting custom game. I was tampering with it’s full screen and window mode sizes when the connection between the monitor and the PC went out again, this time for good. I turned my computer on and off, nothing seemed to work. The monitor’s light remained yellow.

I figured the monitor, being a very old CRT monitor, finally broke. So I bought a flat screen monitor. After hooking it up to my computer, everything seemed to run perfectly. But two days after using my computer on the new monitor, I got the same issue one morning when I turned my PC on. The monitor’s light remained yellow with the screen black. I nearly kicked a hole in my PC.

My computer has two plugs for monitors to go into. One is integrated into the motherboard while the other is through a GeForce video card. I have tried using both plugs, neither work. The pins within the monitor plug are not broken. After telling a friend about this issue, he told me to carefully remove the CMOS from my motherboard. I’m guessing that’s the battery for the motherboard and the common fix Best Buy uses? Well, I tried that. I removed the silver circle, let it sit for a minute or two, put it back in, and turned the power back on to my computer to no avail. So I’m assuming that the issue might be focused on the motherboard. But I don’t know to be honestly sure. I want to bring my PC into Geek Squad to get it properly diagnosed, but that is going to cost …

If anyone knows what this issue may be from past experiences or computer related intelligence, please help me out. I dumped money into a new monitor just to have my system fail again. I want to fix this asap without burning a lot of cash.
Your solution worked Kris! But now there’s a new issue… The connection between the PC and monitor is back, but now when it tries to boot up, I get two messages.

"PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable."
"PXE-M0F: Exiting Intel boot agent."
"No bootable device, insert boot disk and press any key to continue."

It’s stuck at that.
It’s fixed! Thanks to Kris’s solution, I managed to fix the connection to the monitor. I fixed the error messages by re-plugging in a missing cord within my hard drive. Thanks again Kris! You’ll get best answer when I can give it to you!

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So i am planning on buying a dvd burner drive
for my computer and i was wondering if there is
a certain type of drive you have to get for
your computer, (mines custom built from the ground up)

I know that on some you have to get connectors
so they will have the correct number of pins
to connect to your motherboard.

I have no computer technician type
store anywhere in the area and have no way of getting
to one.

So i will be shopping online. any thing i should
look out for?

I don’t want to order something
that won’t be compatible with my computer.

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My Dell dimension won’t start up. I don’t think it’s my motherboard or my PSU. I had a custom PSU and when it didn’t boot up, I put back my standard Dell PSU, it did not work. I moved into college and connected my computer and it won’t boot up. It has a flashing amber light. Searched through the internet and one of the problems can be the USB ports. How do I fix the USB ports? People are talkin about bent pins in the port. I don’t know how to or the tools to fix that. Can anyone help?

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Guys i just bought a new custom computer 2 weeks ago. Today i went somewhere and left my desktop computer turned on. When i came back home my computer was totally shutdown. I pressed the power button but nothing happened not even a single led on my chases was turning on. My power supply is
OKIA 500 Watt. I opened my power supply and checked wih meter if there is any 12 volts in its pins, certainly the result was negative. So i think power supply is blown up.
Q1. Guys i am worried if it damaged my motherboard or other hardware before it blew up.
Q2. If i replace the power supply is there any way to check all my hardware are working fine or not?

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I bought a new case for my custom built computer and like a dummy I unplugged everything and after installing all my components back I cant figure out where the 4 twisted pair of wires from the front panel of the case plug into on the motherboard. I found the connection but its not labeled as to what connecter goes to what pins. Can anyone help????
i have been searching for hours on the web for some kind of layout, but no luck, please send links if you can locate it. all the wires from the case do have labels on them, but i just dont know where to plug them in and i cant find my manual

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This will be my power supply:

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=4362114&sku=O261-2017

This will be my motherboard:

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=4588155&sku=A455-2867

This will be my Processor:

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=4082332&sku=CP2-AM2-9850

This will be my Processor Fan:

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=4420236&sku=C283-1197

This will be my Graphics card:

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=4843000

This will be my Hard Drive:

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=2795126&sku=TSD-500AAKS

This will be my DVD/CD reader:

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=4974035&sku=M452-5004

This will be my operating System:

Windows 7 home premium.

This will be my RAM set:(I will be getting it to 8GB later on)

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=3404049&sku=O261-8038

This will be my Case:

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=2337814&sku=ULT33180

My main worries are:

is that power supply enough to handle everything while the computer is doing nothing,And is it strong enough to feed the whole computer while i’m formatting movies or playing World of warcraft with settings up high and in 25 man raids etc. Basically, can this powersupply handle my components and intense situations? is there enough PIN slots on the power supply to handle everything(Notice the Graphics cards two slot requirement)? Cause i have no idea how power supply for computers work.

2.) Will this graphics card give me the speed in Frames per second i’m looking for? (Constant 60FPS No matter what’s going on in WoW without the advanced shadows when that anti aslising thing is on. i have no idea how anti asling works, nor how to spell it lol, i just know it stops screen tears and keeps Framerate from going over 60, which is the maximum the human eye can see.)

Keep in mind i will have Advanced shadows Completely Off when playing wow(that takes up the most GPU and CPU and i don’t want it to kill my max FPS)

Please look at all of the links and tell how good i’ve done? please let me know of any compadability issues. Also does anyone know if the motherboard comes with screws so that i can screw it in the case? or is there some other way of putting it in the case without screws, cause i don’t see the site mentioning anything about screws for any of the parts. I’m sure it would come with the screws if they were neccessary…Right?

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CORE2 LGA 755 req slot for CORE2

CORE2 DUO 755 PROCESSORS WITH HEATSINK AND FAN-http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115056

Motherboard with 2 pci express x16 and CORE2 processor support DDR2 800/1200-0-http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131244R

2GB DDR2 800 240 PIN MEMORY-

500gb sata seagate hard drive .99-http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148395

500WATT PSU-FREE

ATX CASE -http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811156189

Graphics card-0

Total without operating system-5 plus tax (0)

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CORE2 LGA 755 req slot for CORE2

Intel pentium Dual Core 2.7 GHZ-http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116076

0 Motherboard 3 PCI express, 8 pin connector? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813188043

4GB DDR2 800 240 Pin memory-http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820145184

500gb sata seagate hard drive .99-http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.as…

500WATT PSU-FREE

ATX CASE -http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811156135

Graphics card-0

Molex to 8 pin power adapter- http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812200124

2 TOTAL with windows 7 OS and free PSU?

Am I missing anything?
Windows 7 RC expires july 2010, I have 1 year to make money for an actual OS. And I know I forgot an DVD drive.

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I understand that you choose ram that has to be compatible with your motherboard. So if the motherboard is "4×240pin" does that mean that you MUST have 4×240 pin ram chips?

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Everything is new. New motherboard, RAM (2gb), PSU (500w), Hard Drive (640gb), new case, new EVERYTHING

It mostly freezes when Im doing intesive things (after effects).

I might have an idea, but my motherboard has a 8 pin CPU power connector and I only have 4 pins in there. Should I buy an 8 pin adapter?

Any help would be great. Thanks
Specs:

Motherboard- ASRock A780GXH/128M AM2+/AM2 AMD 780G HDMI ATX AMD

Memory- 2gb 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel

Hard Drive- Hitachi 640gb (40 gb partition for OS and programs, 600 gb for files)

Power Supply- Apevia 500w

CPU- AMD athalon 2.49 ghz dual core

Im not doing anything so intensive that it causes the CPU and RAM to go to 100%. I check the processes in the task amnager and its only like 53% at its peak. In fact it froze when I was writing this and it was at like 2% usage. Can it be teh OS that is loaded?
I do not believe it is the motherboard is bad. It was recently replaced with a brand new one, completly different model.
Memory voltage is 1.8v which is compatible with my MoBo

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