Computer Questions Not Worth Their Own Thread II

It depends on how strong the table is. If it's one of those flimsy plastic ones I wouldn't recommend it. But it would probably be okay, at least short term.
 
aimeeandbeatles said:
Well not for using, just for setting it on there.
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I recently rebuilt a ATX sized desktop computer on top of a foldable table. I felt quite secure during the process. You could test the table's capacity by massing the computer, and then placing an equivalent mass of objects on top of the table, wait 24 hours, and see if the table collapses.
 
So I installed a new ATI video card. But every time I boot up I get an error message telling me cannot find ASUS video card. The old card is gone. I've deleted the programs that came with it from Add/Remove Programs and uninstalled the drivers in the Device Manager. It's not listed under display properties. Yet I'm still getting the error message. Where else do I need to delete references to it to get the error message to stop?
 
Cutlass said:
So I installed a new ATI video card. But every time I boot up I get an error message telling me cannot find ASUS video card. The old card is gone. I've deleted the programs that came with it from Add/Remove Programs and uninstalled the drivers in the Device Manager. It's not listed under display properties. Yet I'm still getting the error message. Where else do I need to delete references to it to get the error message to stop?
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did you check the BIOS?
 
Cutlass said:
So I installed a new ATI video card. But every time I boot up I get an error message telling me cannot find ASUS video card. The old card is gone. I've deleted the programs that came with it from Add/Remove Programs and uninstalled the drivers in the Device Manager. It's not listed under display properties. Yet I'm still getting the error message. Where else do I need to delete references to it to get the error message to stop?
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First guess: try reseating the card and the RAM. Sometimes that is all that is wrong.

My second guess is that you need to go into the BIOS and either disable the integrated graphics (of the Mobo, usually abbreviated as IGP in the BIOS), or set the "order" of the video so that the BIOS checks the PCI first for video card, before defaulting to the IGP. My latest NVIDIA card required this, and the installation caused me to scratch my head til I realized the BIOS options were so cryptic that I hadn't done that.
(If that's not clear, search the net for your specific BIOS by version/maker and get the config options for video.). Note the BIOS is like god to the OS, so a setting in BIOS might actually deny the OS permissions and therefore result in an OS error message.

Alternatively, you may need to install the ATI drivers, then reboot the computer, but that is not likely I think. If you've tried updating the drivers already (i.e. loaded the drivers from the included disk, but also found newer ones online), it may also be that you need to do a "clean install" of the drivers.

Another possibility, was that the old video card wasn't the culprit, and actually part of the mobo was damaged somehow, so no video card in the particular slot will work (might try seating in another PCI express slot, if available). It's good to have a second CPU seated in another mobo as a test bench for components when stuff like this happens, though there are also "readout cards" that give info on the mobo/cpu when crap like this happens.
 
Cutlass said:
BIOS shouldn't give a Windows error message :dunno:
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I mean the old card might be still default. Sorry I'm no good with words.
 
Could someone with Acrobat please flip this PDF the right way up? I'll give you a virtual cookie if you do! :)

Here's a link. (Please ignore the subject manner although it's SFW as far as I can tell... reading it upside down.)
http://www.mediafire.com/?qrd1zt0nw1mrnvu

Thanks ahead of time.
 
I'm pretty wary of downloading links like that, but most scanner software that supports saving to PDF format should also allow simple editing like turning the image on its side before scanning.

I also found this link: http://www.rotatepdf.net/
though I'd AV scan the product to be sure they don't turn it into a trojan.
 
Well I didn't actually scan it myself. I found it online.

I'm slightly leery of that as I'm afraid of the PDF quality being degraded.
 
aimeeandbeatles said:
Well I didn't actually scan it myself. I found it online.

I'm slightly leery of that as I'm afraid of the PDF quality being degraded.
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If you have a color photo printer, you might try printing it and rescanning it.
 
Cutlass said:
So I installed a new ATI video card. But every time I boot up I get an error message telling me cannot find ASUS video card. The old card is gone. I've deleted the programs that came with it from Add/Remove Programs and uninstalled the drivers in the Device Manager. It's not listed under display properties. Yet I'm still getting the error message. Where else do I need to delete references to it to get the error message to stop?
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Try a program like DriverSweeper:

http://www.guru3d.com/category/driversweeper/
 
GoodGame said:
If you have a color photo printer, you might try printing it and rescanning it.
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Well the ink is running low and I tried recently to print a color but it came out pink. But thanks for the suggestion.
 
Can the magnet inside a computer speaker damage an external hard drive?
 
Well I'd like to move the external drive next to a speaker. I googled it and it ought to be fine but I want to double check.
 
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