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This Board has been designed for tweeking and keeping your PC running to it's full potential.

Building your own PC can save you hundreds, link below for low priced Hardware and PC kits.

To keep it running just like it came new out of the box.

Overclocking your PC to run faster then it did out of the box.

Learn how to work on your PC.

Learn how to build your own PC

Learn how to operate and navigate your OS (Operating System).

Also Old School PC's.

 

Links to Build your own PC:

http://www.pricewatch.com/

 

Links to Web Search Engines:

http://www.google.com/

http://www.ask.com/

http://search.yahoo.com/

http://aolsearch.aol.com/aol/webhome

 

Links to other Web Browsers:

www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/

 

Operating System Related:

Creating  a new partition and reformating your Hard Drive for a clean OS installation.

Creating 2 or more partitions on one Hard Drive to accept more then one OS. You can have more then one OS on your PC, myself I have Windows Me, Office 2000 and XP on one Hard Drive.  

Overclocking your PC CPU to make it a faster one.

Overclocking the Graphics/Video card  will enhance game play with the larger game engines  that run in today's games.

Benchmark testing for the  overclocking results.

http://www.futuremark.com/

http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=576

How to Add/Remove Programs.

Removing programs running in the back ground will actually make your PC run faster.

Programs running in the back ground are located on the bottom Desktop tool bar to the far right hand side next to your clock.

How to remove these programs running in the back ground and still have access to use these programs.

Clean up unwanted files manually or by Disk clean up, this will gain more Hard Drive space.

Other things to help keep that PC running fast:  Once a week run a Scan Disk & Disk Defragmenter .

Check for  Internet Explorer updates weekly.

Please keep your Antivirus program updated weekly and run scans weekly.

Links to Free  virus scan & spyware:

http://housecall.trendmicro.com/

Ad-Aware @ Lavasoft - The Original Anti-Spyware Company - Registry Tuner and more:

http://www.lavasoft.com/?domain=adaxis.net

SUPERAntiSpyware - Detect & Remove Spyware, Adware, Malware:

www.superantispyware.com/index.html

 

Links to Shareware and Tools:

http://www.itshareware.com/

If changing to different a antivirus program , remove the old antivirus program and updates through Add/Remove programs before installing the new one.

Make sure you have at least a 450Watt power supply.

The cooler you keep your PC the better,  add more then one exhaust  fan and a larger heat sink & fan to the CPU.

The more memory the better, especially for large programs or running multiple programs at one time.

Faster the Hard Drive the better.

How to locate a file or folder.

How to create a new folder.

How to move files from one folder to another folder.

If you receive an error saying  a certain "  dll. " file is missing, you can find these files on the web to replace that corrupted file or missing file and just paste it into that program or systems folder.

http://www.dll-files.com/

Hex editor

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hex_editor

Hex editor download

http://www.chmaas.handshake.de/delphi/freeware/xvi32/xvi32.htm

Stay away from sites that offer free codes or serial #s to activate a paid program that is a trial program that you did not pay for, there is a 99.9% chance of picking up a virus.

If you use Limewire or any file sharing sites to download songs or videos, songs and videos most likely do not contain a virus.  But if you use it for downloading programs or a serial# & codes or any other files, do not download it, most likely a virus will come with that download.

Video/Graphics card drivers, Sound card drivers, Chipset drivers & Ethernet LAN drivers and how to find those drivers and install those drivers. 

Motherboards with onboard video and sound and how to install the drivers for both.

How to install a driver (Install disk) for old and new hardware.

Also remove the old drivers through Add/Remove programs before installing an updated driver.

Also keep the drivers updated, it will improve the performance of you PC.

If adding a Graphics/Video card or Sound card to your motherboard, the onboard video and sound must be dissabled first through the bios, also the olds drivers must be removed before installing the new drivers for your cards.

Links to Drivers Download, Game Patches, Free Tools:

Where to find a driver if you do not already have one.

http://driverzone.com/

http://www.drivers.com/home3.php

http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us

http://ati.amd.com/support/driver.html

Motherboard Jumpers and what that Jumper does.

Game patches and updates to repair Bugs in your game.

http://www.fileplanet.com/

http://filelist.filefront.com/LatestGamePatches

Direct X

http://www.gamesforwindows.com/en-US/AboutGFW/Pages/DirectX10.aspx

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=2da43d38-db71-4c1b-bc6a-9b6652cd92a3&displaylang=en

http://www.softwarepatch.com/windows/directx.html

WinZip

http://www.download.com/WinZip/3000-2250_4-10003164.html?tag=mncol;pop&cdlPid=10883833

WinRaR

http://www.download.com/WinRAR/3000-2250_4-10007677.html?tag=mncol;pop&cdlPid=10890490

Adobe Reader

http://get.adobe.com/reader/

BlueFive Software & Utilities

www.bluefive.pair.com

Bandwidth Speed, see how fast your interent is running.

http://reviews.cnet.com/internet-speed-test/

Operating and Navigating Windows Media Player and updating to a newer version. Windows Media Player  is the best player available to play songs or videos. Hint , it also has a CD Copying/Burning Program to burn your favorite songs to a CD.

Links to Media Players:

Windows Media Player download

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/default.mspx

Winamp Media Player download

www.winamp.com/player

RealPlayer Audio, Video, Flash & Media Player download

http://www.real.com/

DVDXPlayer Professional 3.0 download

http://english.p30world.com/archives/001396.php

How to copy songs from your CD to a Folder so you can play songs from your PC using Windows Media Player

How to make a Startup disk.

http://www.computerhope.com/boot.htm

How to identify what kind of motherboard, video card and sound card that you have.

Setting  up more then one storage unit, such as two Hard Drives , two CD/DVD Players and which jumper selection to use to set it up for either primary or slave.

Please use an anti static wrist band and clip it to the chassis of the PC  when changing hardware. Your body carries stastic electricity and if not grounded properly to the PC you can  Zap the motherboard, will cost you $$$$

How to burn CD's and DVD's.

Coping/Burning software:

http://www.nero.com/enu/index.html

http://www.afterdawn.com/software/video_software/dvd_rippers/dvd_shrink.cfm

How to transfer a complete Operating System (OS) from one Hard Drive to another one.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=How+to+transfer+from+one+hard+drive+to+another&btnG=Search

Caution! Please, if you are not familiar with Bios, do not attempt to adjust the settings. Just the wrong change of the settings in the Bios and you just crashed your PC. But that does not mean you can't recover the original settings and your up and running again.

Resetting your Bios from the Motherboard Jumper.
 

Caution! Please do not delete any System files as these files run the OS.

Everyone is invited to give advice. I'm sure there are a lot of sharp advisers out there and you are welcome.

Come in and trade ideas.

Enjoy the board and ask any question related to your PC.

 

Amazing  Videos below:

CPU Heat range and meltdown tempature testing Video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y39D4529FM4&feature=related
 

Overclocking and Benchmarking Videos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiGsPd3kmI8&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyK3WlWTi10&NR=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UOryWvh1OA&feature=related

 

 

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