Grim's PC Repair Thread

[GrimFusion]

I've finally got cracking on my HTPC. I ordered all the parts from a shop in Bangkok (Jedi Cool in Pantip Plaza http://www.jedicool.com/).

Here are my specs.

Motherboard: AsRock 880GMH/U3S3 AM3+ AMD880G/SB710 DDR3 HD4250 USB3 SATA3
CPU: Athlon II X2 255 AM3 3.10GHz L2 2MB 95W
Case: Thermaltake V4
Memory: Kingston Value Ram 4GB (2 x 2GB)
HDD: WESTERN DIGITAL 2 TB WD20EARS SATA ll / 64MB Green Power
Graphics: HIS HD 6670 1Gb PSU 2,190 Thermaltake TR2 470W DVD 750 DVD-RW LITEON 24X SATA2 LIGHTSCRIBE
Windows: WINDOW 7 HOME PREMIUM OEM 64BIT

Total 18700 Baht

Thats $603.00 for a HTPC that will have no problems with 1080p and some light gaming. Windows just finished installing. I'm getting excited!

I think my next step is to load drivers and all that. But then I plan on setting up a kickass XBMC.

See, I probably would have set up that 2TB SATA II HDD as a primary-slave media storage drive and added a 16GB SATA III SSD as primary-master. Write limitations on SSDs are a lot less dramatic than they were two years ago, and if you're still worried, you could always move your swap file to the secondary SATA II. I never build computers with less than two hard drives, even if we're talking about separate partitions. I've had too many issues with single-drive systems in the past, whether they be OS boot issues, or actual drive crashes. I'd just rather lose either my media or my OS than both. *shrugs*

[Silcc69]

I just bought a new copy of City of Hero's and it will not work on either my desktop or laptop.

I am way above the recommended specs on both of them. The only thing is maybe my videocard isn't strong enough. I have an All In Wonder HD for my desktop and an Nvidia NVS3100M for my laptop both cards have 512MB.

I have installed it but everytime I click the icon I get the UAC thing and picking yes or no results in well nothing. But DCU seems to work fine.

[kukm4]

Wikipedia for game says

On PC, Video: NVIDIA® GeForce 2 Series, ATI™ Radeon® 8500 or Intel® i810G Series Video Card

on Mac, Video: NVIDIA® GeForce FX 5600 Series (or higher), ATI™ Radeon® 9600 (or higher)

[flabbybody]

sometimes when I click on the back button it doesn't take me to the prior page I was viewing. getting annoying because it's happen more frequently. I've cleared the cache and all that nonsense. using latest version of firefox browser on windows xp.
HELP

[Dino Velvet]

Grim, you're a good man bumping this thread and helping folks with their computer problems.

[talldudeil]

Work off of flash drives for the ghosting software, external drives are good for imaging but make sure that you do it every month so you don't loose data as bad. I use a hp 6910p laptop with a kingston 128gb ssd and a quad core for a desk top. Work at an electronic recycling company so am building and repairing computers all day. Have 4 flash drives and hirens hd tune pro personal server with 6tb of storage. Sell good desktops and laptops at a good price and can also help with problems online most times.

There is a active X virus going around that will pop up on even normal websites saying your computer is infected and need to pay 16.99 to fix it the problem is if you click anywhere on or in the box your infected just F4 and your ok, then contact the webmaster. Good luck and good computing

Steve

Acronis is a good product, I largely gave up on Ghost after it started having issues with manufacturer pre-installed special system or restore partitions but they may have fixed that by now. Also look into Shadow Protect (desktop or server) it can create incremental bare metal restore points while the system is running so you get multiple fall back points. DeepFreeze causes more problems than its worth and its pain in the ass to work around when they come up.

Skip imaging to DVD media, it takes too long and one scratched or bad DVD in the set and your image set cant be restored and is now useless. You can get a 500 Gb USB drive for about 50 bucks and a 1TB is only $100 and is much faster and more stable than a bunch of DVD's. (youll still need to use a utility Boot disk but since they arnt unique like the image disks you can always make another.) If you go ESata youll cut down your imaging time even more or get a nice little NAS unit running on a gigabit LAN and use that for incremental every 3 hours and youll always have a fall back point.

Id list off my system specs but thats like so much dick waving LOL... Besides my day job is a Network Admin for 3 Airports, a large main office facility, a retail chain administrative office and a Medical specialist placement firm so if I listed all the systems I take care of it would take up a whole page.

BTW since your just getting started into the PC support thing you should look into getting TeamViewer for remote support on client systems, unlike other remote software like RDP or VNC ect... you dont have to worry about IP addresses or most firewall settings (unless they are really strict on allowing internal traffic get out of the network) The client is free and easy to have a user download and can be ran without installing. You can try it out completely for free and it generates a unique session and password for the client every time so people dont have to worry about you having access to their system after you complete the work. Ive got it installed on about 200 systems for remote management and love that I can connect to the client system anywhere Im at regardless of firewalls on either end as long as network access is available.

[Silcc69]

My Win 7 keeps installing this thing over and over again.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/s...letin/ms11-068

IDK what the deal is but its annoying as fuck.

[kukm4]

My Win 7 keeps installing this thing over and over again.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/s...letin/ms11-068

IDK what the deal is but its annoying as fuck.

Hope this helps.

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/...3-a8ec58ee26b0

[GrimFusion]

I'm bumping this just to see if everybody's doin' dandy.
Unless it becomes an issue, I might re-bump once a month just in case anybody needs anything.

If you've been having computer problems, describe them and I'll do my best to provide an answer or tutorial.

[south ov da border]

I got one. In my firefox I keep getting random windows that don't pop up but show up only when I check on my open program bar and I don't know where they are coming from. It'll be like for amazon or some other thing. I can't figure where the infection is. What do you suggest???