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[Crono]

Once again my ****ty PC has problems. Now it's resetting itself immediately after boot-up. I did a quick google search and couldn't find anything. Can anyone help me before I feel like smashing my pc? I'm on a different one right now. I haven't reformatted yet and got a power source change a couple months ago. I have no damn idea what's wrong. It's definitely not overheating, although I will vacuum behind my desk to clean up any dust and cat hair.

Also, I want to reformat but I can't change my primary boot drive to CDROM, it wont let me, any suggestions? Thanks to anyone who has advice.

[Jonbo298]

Have you checked in the Bios for the boot order? Almost every bios has a boot order in it where you can change it to cdrom, etc...

[Crono]

Originally Posted by Jonbo298

Have you checked in the Bios for the boot order? Almost every bios has a boot order in it where you can change it to cdrom, etc...

Ok, I'll look, but I'm more worried about the restting problem, heh.

[GameMaster]

Will upgrading my PC from 256MB of memory to 512MB make my WarCraft 3 gaming experience better? And it will also make the computer performance in general faster?

[Jonbo298]

Originally Posted by GameMaster

Will upgrading my PC from 256MB of memory to 512MB make my WarCraft 3 gaming experience better? And it will also make the computer performance in general faster?

YES. WC3 will run better and smoother, along with any other 3d games you have. And overall your computer should perform a little faster. If your on XP, upgrading to 512 is recommended as 256 is pretty bleh with it.

Although a video card upgrade helps, if you dont have enough ram, ram becomes the bottlekneck for the video card because the game has to keep accessing the hard drive more and more (virtual ram), thus degrading performance.

[Joeiss]

Well, I start university in September, and I decided to buy a laptop based on my brother's and others' opinions. I see many ads about laptops in magazines, online and in the newspapers which have varying prices and various features. I was hoping that I could get some help here about what features I need for the present and the future.

A main thing that I need is a wireless connection... Like a wireless LAN port is it called? Intel Centrinos have it built in, and I am pretty sure Pentium M processors do too. I am majoring in Accounting, so I need a computer basically for spreadsheets and wordprocessing, but I will also use it for internet use, downloads, instant messengers and movies (both comedy and pornography, haha).

Here are a couple of computers that I am scouting out now (all prices are CAD).


Horizon 1800 M $1529.17
Mobile Intel® Pentium® 4 Processor - M 1.80 GHz
MICROSOFT® WINDOWS® XP HOME
Notebook Memory 256MB DDR SODIMM
Notebook CY25 14" XGA BASE Unit
40GB 4200RPM 2.5" Notebook Hard Drive
24X Combo Drive For G731 Mode
Corel Productivity Software
*and I am pretty sure it comes with MSWorks Suite or something.... *

Visionbook Pro 6000 $1537.00
Intel® Centrino™ Mobile Technology Intel® Pentium® M Processor 1.30 GHz
MICROSOFT® WINDOWS® XP HOME
Notebook Memory 256MB DDR SODIMM
40GB 4200RPM 2.5" Notebook Hard Drive
Notebook CL50 14" XGA Base Unit
16X Combo Drive For G731 Model
Microsoft® Works Suite OEM
.NB System


This is from a place called MDG here in Canada. I have an MDG desktop here at the house, and it has been very good so far. So basically, I just need some opinions on whether or not these two systems are good, and any upgrades I could possibly need! Thanks in advance, and I'll check in with new finds whenever I can.

[Jonbo298]

As long as both are WiFi compatible, I'd recommend going with the first one. From what I've heard, the Pentium M's are pretty good for laptops since they dont suck much power and performance is pretty good.