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DVD burning problems

copperhill — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 2:03:02 PM -0400

Hi guys,

After burning files to a new DVD, the disk is somehow getting closed, the message is always "not enough room on this disk". So I start with a 4 Gg disk, successfully burn about 1 Gg and I get that message. This happens with both optical drives and with assorted types of CDs and DVDs. I have tried numerous burning programs including Ashampoo and Nero Lite with the same results. It also happens with "sending files/burning" with Windows.

Does anyone have a clue what's going ...

Desktop Windows Manager

LizMarr — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 3:12:43 AM -0400

I was having my usual argument with a memory sucking graphics program that I use (and love, but what the heck) and the mouse went away and then I had the usual problem of shutting down without a mouse. Then Explorer crashed. Rather than let it restart like I have in the past, I just shut down anyway figuring Explorer would work its magic when it started. When I brought the machine up, Desktop Windows Manager wasn't working, even though it said it was. So I turned it off and on (little ...

Grrr, Firefox hates flash

LizMarr — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 9:33:10 AM -0500

It had been a long time marriage, even on this temporary machine after I got VISTA installed and all. It worked fine, then "poof" they no longer like each other. I haven't added any new addons, nothing. So, after installs and uninstalls and reinstalls, even dropped the flash down to release 10 (which worked for some pages). I'm trying to find what other things it might be. Is there anything in the apps that might bug flash into not being nice to Firefox? It seems to run OK until yo...

Water cooled with water rushing noise

Neilo — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 12:47:23 AM -0500

Hey all.

Just recently built a new rig and installed the Thermaltake Big Water 760 Plus water cooling kit. This is just for the CPU.

I installed it all following all guides i could find and bleed the system and had no issues. All bubbles were bleed from the system and it was performing fine for about 1 month.
Now, starting about two days ago i now hear a water rushing noise. It started off being a random noise, maybe every few hours or so, but today, it's every few mins, nothing loud ...

Great Deal on a Solid State Drive!

RedneckDude — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 8:18:39 PM -0500

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/item-Details.asp?EdpNo=1068616&sku=O261-6401&SRCCODE=WEM3005BY&cm_mmc=email-_-Main-_-WEM3005-_-tigeremail3005&utm_source=EML&utm_medium=main&utm_campaign=WEM3005

I hope this isn't considered spam.

Solid State Drive

RedneckDude — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 1:02:12 PM -0500

Hey guys! My new SSD arrives tomorrow. I thought some of you who already went there may have some tips?

Like, migrate vs clean install?

Anything I have to tweak?

SpecificationsOCZ Vertex Plus 120GB 2.5" SATA II SSD Drive Type: Solid State Drive Capacity: 120 GB Interface Type: SATA II Buffer Memory: 64MB Average Seek (msec): 0.1 Write S...

The PC Modding/Upgrade Thread

VistArtXPosed — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 5:57:40 AM -0500

All of us here at WinCustomize enjoy making our desktops look like our own. But what about customizing & making our PC rigs our own? Like with fancy lights on the inside? Or custom decals on top of our notebooks?

It's hard to believe that a site like this doesn't have a PC Modding thread. The purpose of this thread is to list the computer you've bought/built, and if you've upgraded it over time. (Buying a new PC doesn't count as an upgrade.) I mean, working...

Solid State Drives: Already becoming Obsolete?

VistArtXPosed — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 8:38:30 AM -0500

It's just a fact of life. Whenever newer techonlogies come out, we like to think of them as "the next big thing". However, since the trend for technological advances has been accelerating at an alarming rate, i'd like to point out that SSDs may soon become obsolete. The reason? The masses won't want to invest in PC's anymore. They will all be migrating to tablets and smartphones, which have no drives for storage. Those devices only have built-in internal flash...

Video Drivers Stopped Responding?

Daiwa — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 1:53:05 PM -0500

Have a 3 month old Inspiron 17R laptop, Win7 64bit, Intel HD3000 graphics.

Just had the monitor briefly go blank as I'm typing away & a tooltip message appeared after the display returned indicating that the igfx video driver had 'stopped responding' and successfully recovered. That's all that Event Viewer tells me, as well.

Something I've never run into before. Is this a harbinger of something bad or a relatively common experience?

Thx.

How to significantly speed up your PC (without overclocking or upgrades)

VistArtXPosed — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 7:06:02 AM -0500

The title of this article sounds like a cheesy ad placement, but it's not. Have users ever wondered what to do with a system with a ton of RAM, but not use nearly all of it (like me)? I found an interesting editorial in my MaximumPC magazine about that. The solution: Create a virtual RAMDisk. It's exactly what it sounds like; to use some of your system's RAM as storage. And after using CrystalDiskMark for benchmarking, I can tell you...that it's WAY faster tha...

Buying from a Romanian site

2of3 — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 9:02:03 AM -0500

While searching for replacement parts for my Asus laptop, I stumbled onto this site [LINK]

I'm kinda worried about buying something online from a site where I can't read what's written there. I worry about credit card info theft/fraud. I have actually done some research online and have so far haven't found any evidence to support my fears. It seems to be a reputable site similar to Ebay.

They have the part I'm looking for [LINK] and at a fraction of the price ...

Building First Custom Pc-Need Help

xxinightxx — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 10:46:19 PM -0500

So i wanted to build a computer. I went on newegg and started to search for computer parts. Im hoping that everything is compatible and that I have everything i need to boot it. Is everything compatible?

Case: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811147153

Power Supply: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817159107

Motherboard: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813121533

CPU: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?I...

nobody home

Richard Mohler — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 2:53:13 AM -0400

OK...so I got a 'nuvva computer

Jafo — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 1:07:44 AM -0400

A friend was after a Lappy to sit on her lappy so she could browse the net...chasing up her home town [Amsterdam], etc ...so I went off with her to the local 'Laptop Zone'.

Found a second hand one that looked too good to pass up....

....and there were two of them, so what-the-heck I got one too.

Acer Travelmate 6592 ....cost $295 AUD with a bag thrown in.

They're identical ....though now mine's had the XP Pro replaced with a quick trip to Technet and a Win7 64 Ul...

Please Help!! Building a Computer

G3mpi3 — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 11:50:21 PM -0400

Hey Everyone,

First of all, I apologize for not being as lively around here. I still check in to see what's going on, I just haven't had the time to be as active in the community.

Anyway, I recently built a computer and it just died on me! It shut down randomly a few times, and now I can't get it to start at all. The event log said the computer lost power unexpectedly (no stop code error). I figured maybe it was just a fluke with my new power supply, or may...

0x000003b BSOD issue

VistArtXPosed — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 11:28:14 PM -0400

Okay. I've been having this problem for a while. I get a 0x000003b BSOD message after exiting my Maxthon Web Browser. Today, I also got it while running scans for Advanced SystemCare 4 and Privacy Mantra. I think there's two parts to this. A) The BSOD occurs only when trying to clean my computer, and more importantly I think i'm stressing my 300W power supply. A few days ago, I installed an external Hard Drive case (with an independent power source) and thus,...

ATI vs Nvidia on an Intel machine

tlb123 — Wed, 04 May 2011 8:25:11 PM -0400

I have WWW Link this motherboard, and I was wondering if there's any difference between using an ATI or Nvidia graphics card on it, besides SLI. The board doesn't say anything about supporting SLI, so I was just wondering what's better, SLI or Crossfire.

Also, will VIVO let me capture video?

I'm kind of confused.

CPU Overheating? Easy Fix.

KeithMacDonald — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 4:21:25 PM -0400

Is you computer doing what you don't want it to do? EG; slowing down so much you think it's crashed are for no reason you music goes down and you don't know why? I have one solution for you.

1. First, reset your computer. If you have some like "CPU Overheat", the try this out. Beware: you computer my be set as 'disabled' so it wouldn't do the error display, so just try it anyways.

2. Now, turn your computer off, and unplug ANYTHING plugged into the tower.

3. Take the slides off of the...

Which temp is the right one?

Bebi Bulma — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 12:32:24 PM -0400

I rebuild my machine recently and having reinstalled Speedfan it nicely labeled everything for me (had to label them myself last time). However, it's showing me two different sensors: CPU and Core. I'm not sure which one is actually the proper readout for my CPU temp, and when I was trying to research it I found someone that said: "A very important note. Never use CPU temp to see how hot your CPU is. Use Core temp."

There's a huge difference between the readings for the CPU and Core temperatu...

Solid State Drive Performance

VistArtXPosed — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 7:34:27 PM -0400

Are you one of the lucky few who has their hands on a new SSD? How well does it perform?

From my experience, I have an OCZ Vertex 2 60GB SSD. Here's the lowdown of how my SSD performs:

Installing Windows: About 1.5x faster than with my HDD (I installed it both drives on the same day.)

Boot Up time: Not much faster, sometimes even slower if it has to configure updates.

Logon Screen to Desktop: Almost instantaneous (The "Welcome" screen appears for a fraction of...

FancyCache... Ram cache for SSDs/HDD's.

Supergroverohp — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 11:10:51 AM -0500

Found this over @ HWC. Did a bit of playing around with it. And it does work very impressively. DO NOT USE IF YOU ARE WORRIED ABOUT DATA LOSS/CORRUPTION. My gaming system is rock solid stable and I never have power outages (UPS FTW!)so I thought I'd give it a go. It is a 90 day trial beta. The software even supports TRIM, although I have no idea how that works. It should help w/ lengthening NAND life as well due to eliminating most of the small file random writes.

http://www.romexsoftware.com...

Anyone here use this CPU cooler?

MadDeez — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 1:09:00 AM -0500

I'm considering buying this cooler for the rig I'm building for my daughter. I'm looking for opinions from anyone here who's using it. Are you happy with it or not? Talk to me!

iPod nano Doesn't Work At All?

KeithMacDonald — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 10:01:32 PM -0400

Ok, your iPod nano doesn't work, right? You've tried everything, and you can't even open it's drive. I have a way to fix that, using DOS.

Warning: everything short of the firmware WILL be gone.
Note: I've only used Windows XP Home Edition, with SP2, with an iPod nano 4g black. It should work with different kinds, though.

Ok, now that that's done, here it is:

Last resort: iPod nano

Reset your iPod (hold select and menu for a few seconds, until screen changes into the Apple logo...

Adaptec Gamebridge - How to install on Windows Vista

Jason Carver — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 2:07:58 AM -0500

If you own a Adaptec Gamebridge AV 1400 or 1410, You may be wondering if this works on Windows Vista. Do a search on the internet and you will see many people have tried, but cannot get the installation CD to recognize the device and install the drivers. Here is the correct procedure for Vista:1. Keep your Adaptec Gamebridge unit unplugged from the USB Port.2. Insert the CD. When a box comes up, click on the option that allows you to browse the contents of the disc. 3. Double Click on the Softwa...

Pas's Christmas present to Pas

MadDeez — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 10:18:04 PM -0500

CPU - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115214

MOBO - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131400

Memory - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820145267

Cooler - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835181010 ( Already have )

Case - http://www.performance-pcs.com/catalog/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=103_104&products_id=26269 ( Already have )

Storage - http://www.newegg.com/P...