The Official Computer Tech Support Thread

sidewinder · 05-17-2010, 11:00 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Freebase Dali

Yea, any time you do a clean install you'll need to put your specific hardware drivers in yourself as Windows has no way of knowing what hardware you'll be using, therefore the drivers won't be included in the OS installation CD.
You should only need the following drivers:

CHIPSET driver (important, if you value any kind of performance at all)
Video card driver
Audio card driver
Ethernet controller driver

Anything else, such as third-party software stuff will be installed when you install the software.

Cool thanks. After a bit more work on it this weekend it's finally home and able to get online, so I can at least resolve any further problems from there. I still need to investigate audio as I'm able to plug in headphones and get sound in the front, but nothing comes out of speakers plugged in the back. Shouldn't be too hard. I'll look into the Chipset driver, I may have grabbed this already but can't be sure. Haven't noticed any performance worse than before, and I even installed the beast that is Adobe CS4 last night. Anyway the major thing was getting the net hooked up so I could use it at home.

On an unrelated issue, does anyone know if it's possible to import a Favorites folder into a browser, without having exported an HTML file? Every instruction I've seen says to import the HTML file exported from another browser. Well, I don't have that...I just have the folder with all the sub-folder and links. If I drag this folder into a browser window, it does display the directory...so I could click on each link and manually re-bookmark everything and recreate all my subfolders, but that would be quite time-consuming.

Cadrian · 05-18-2010, 09:03 AM

Alright... Need help please.

My Aunt just gave me a Computer that she tried to build years ago.... She said she put in a new MOBO and then when she turned it she smelled smoke. So she turned it off and the computer has been sitting there for 3 years because she didnt want to fix it.

So she gave it to me... told me to see if I can fix it, I brought it home, and powered it up and the Power supply blew out a puff of smoke like a atom bomb out of the back of it. Turned it off and now am guessing I just need to replace the Power Supply... Did I damage anything by turning it on besides the Power Supply?

The MOBO is a k7upgrade-600
The Powersupply is Skyhawk CTX-300WCE

What do y'all think I should do get this thing working again? Its a free computer for me if I get working, be nice to have another computer around the house for web surfing or maybe giving to a friend.

Thanks for any replies.

05-18-2010, 09:03 AM	#2 (permalink)
Cadrian Music Addict Join Date: May 2009 Location: South Carolina Posts: 111	Alright... Need help please. My Aunt just gave me a Computer that she tried to build years ago.... She said she put in a new MOBO and then when she turned it she smelled smoke. So she turned it off and the computer has been sitting there for 3 years because she didnt want to fix it. So she gave it to me... told me to see if I can fix it, I brought it home, and powered it up and the Power supply blew out a puff of smoke like a atom bomb out of the back of it. Turned it off and now am guessing I just need to replace the Power Supply... Did I damage anything by turning it on besides the Power Supply? The MOBO is a k7upgrade-600 The Powersupply is Skyhawk CTX-300WCE What do y'all think I should do get this thing working again? Its a free computer for me if I get working, be nice to have another computer around the house for web surfing or maybe giving to a friend. Thanks for any replies.