PC Tech Thread

nuke that massive picture then get yourself to the nursery.

Love it. Love IT! LOVE IT! LOVE THE GATES!! LOVE HIM!!!!

it was doing absolutely nothing whilst sitting on its own little ikea laptoptable, its pretty much relegated to web duties these days. It sits by
my bed so I can trawl whilst watching tv.

Strangely enough the same thing happened to me last night. When I looked in the processor files even once you've quit chrome the shockwave (flash) can still be running. I wonder if that's what's making it sound like an aeroplane?

Hi everyone, I'm also looking for a clevo laptop to buy in London, does anyone has any contact/adress of resellers based in London ?? If some of you had one, i'm looking for exactly the same configuration as CYOA:

Screen: 15.6" 1080p Full HD Matte 95% NTSC Colour Gamut
Screen Calibration: SPYDER 4 Professional screen calibration
Graphics Card: nVidia GeForce GTX 680M 4.0GB GDDR5 with Optimus switchable graphics
CPU: Intel Core i7 Quad Core 3820QM 2.7GHZ 8MB Cache
Thermal Compund: IC DIAMOND / Arctic Silver Thermal Compund on CPU and GPU
RAM: 32GB DDR3 (1600) Dual Channel 4 x 8GB
Hard Drive: Samsung 512GB 830 SSD
Optical Drive: 6x BLURAY Writer
Connectivity: Intel Advanced-N 6235 WiFi + Bluetooth (v4.0)
Keyboard: UK Backlit
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Professional - ENG
Power Cord: UK Standard Power Cord
Warranty: 2 Year Warranty RTB on case and components, 1 year on screen, 9 months batteries - Lifetime free labour

Basicly to do lot of 3d renderring and videoproject on after effects, are you happy with this configuration or do you recommand something else ??

Thx for all your help guys !!

more ram mayte +1

quoting myself...

Hi, I got one more quick question.

Got a graphics card (8400GS but with 1GB this time), but every time i boot into windows7 now, it stalls on this loading/logo screen. I've had this problem with other (8400gs) cards I've tried before and sent them back.

Could this be a problem with my PSU? i've got 300w psu and all the cards including this one, state minimum power is 300w.

• the only reason i've stuck with 8400gs cards is cuz thats what i'm replacing and as you can see i dont know what i'm doing...
  
  

anyone know whats going on? i'm just trying to replace the original (now bust) 8400gs card on my parents (old) computer, who are just using it for email, etc.

Hola, I used http://pwnpcs.co.uk/

I was a bit dubious given the name of the slightly gamey name of the company and that I'd never seen a Clevo in the flesh before - but they were utterly fantastic from start to finish. It's only a couple of guys but they were happy to meet up and show me one and kept me informed every step of the way. They were also very helpful in terms of supplying alternatives (i.e. previously the website didn't have an option for 32gb of ram and the selection of SSDs was limited so I got in touch and they suggested alternatives) After the money was transferred I was wasting my time on Battlefield 3 in about 3 days time.

Email Scott at:

sales at pwnpcs.co.uk

quoting myself...
Buy moar power.

Try booting up with nothing else plugged in.

this /no grafics card in

I see memory prices of all kinds are very low atm, 7dayshop are doing 64Gb CF cards for £64 (I feel SSD iPod 2.0 coming on) and ebuyer are doing 32Gb USB 2.0 sticks for £9.99 and USB 3.0 ones for £19.99.

My next little PC tech project is to get my RAID box working again. Previously it had 2x250Gb Samsung drives in RAID 1 but one has bit the dust, I've got a spare 1Tb drive sitting in my HTPC, which is now totally unused thanks to the quite excellent WD TV Live box. So I think I'll put the working 250gb drive into the HTPC and sell it (excellent price to anyone from here) and try and get a matching 1Tb to give a mirrored RAID big enough to store full HD films on.

Horrible, very loud beeping noise from my laptop this morning. The internet suggests it is hardware failure but it booted up fine eventually. I guess something is slowly dying but I'm not sure how to tell which bit. Any thoughts?

beeps make me think ram

Nah, it's the condensomograph.

(The little triangle job in between the flurpstein and the rich-cup).

So you're telling me I should buy a new one

What's your motherboard? They have specific beeps/light flashes for specific problem areas. It's usually RAM or video card, sometimes drive failure.

Hope you have a backup..

have you got spare ram?

its a laptop hippy

It can be CPU too.

Particularly if a fan fails through being clogged withdust.

Specific beeps for that laptop will tell you what it is.

Haven't got any spare ram unforunately.

I'll have a look inside and see if anything looks dodgy. I was going to get a bit more ram and maybe a small SSD to eke some more life out of it but if the cpu is going to die it doesn't seem worth it

Ta

its a laptop hippy

Laptop's have mobos too.

Find out what that model's codes are..

my point was that he's unlikely to have a spare knocking about.

The beeps are motherboard specific. I'm sure hippy's not suggesting swapping out all of the parts to identify the bad one.

recently I started having issues. I asked the question about correcting it on the Any questions thread but i think i need more detailed guidance.

My laptop is struggling to play movies both online and offline.
It is a 64bit win 7; 2gig ram; Intel Core 2 CPU T7200@2GHz machine.

I was recommended that i upgrade the RAM and the OS. So far, Ive ordered the RAM (4gigs). but now I would like to move over to Linux OS like Ubuntu or Mint.

I have tried to understand what the fuck im supposed to do, but as im not IT I cant figure it out.

Please can you help:-)

Download Ubuntu 12.04 desktop version for 64 bit, burn it to a disk, put the disk in an restart. Then follow the instructions.

Borrow linux cd - pop in cd drive and it'll do the rest for you!

Edit - or follow advise above!