New computer problems

Then don't return it, just buy another one anyway. You're at serious risk if you carry on using it.

 

Would you rather spend ~$75(after shipping) for a new psu now, or spend $500 or more on a new system in a few months?

 

so what psu do you recommend i would like one that will work with modern graphics cards and has the right cables that my computer needs.

 

The Corsair CX 400W will work with any medium power graphics card, currently up to the Radeon HD5770 in performance, as it has a single PCIe power connector. If you want to use the most powerful graphics cards, or use two small ones in crossfire, then buy the 550W VX unit.

 

i had been thinking of getting a radeon HD5770 because one of my friends has one but when i looked at the requirements it says it needs 450 watt or greater power supply.

 

Dont listen to so called power requirements on hardware.

 

The HD5770 will work fine with a 400W Corsair CX, trust me. The 450W rating is only for systems with low-quality PSUs with falsely advertised ratings, or people with extreme CPUs, which you do not have.

 

Twice i have the error page_failed_in_nonpage_area whan on the internet i searched it after but didnt find anything is the my graphics card too or some thing else?

 

Could be all sorts of things, dodgy drivers, a corrupt OS, a dodgy hard drive or faulty RAM.

 

I had a problem with drivers when i tried to connect to the internet a not long ago. With this may driver problems could it be some thing else? How would i check?

 

Well, have you tried installing an up to date driver for whatever was causing the problem?

 

I have installed all the drivers i can think of. I havnt done any updates to the drivers.

 

I have got one of my old hard drives and done a restore to it so it has windows xp 32-bit and put it in my new computer i installed all the drivers and it seemed to work fine and i havnt seen a blue screen yet. But once when i was on the internet it kept coming up with an error about c++ after i rebooted it was fine. I also installed fallout 3 because that didnt work and it ran fine untill i left the vault i was then sent back to the desktop later i tried again and it was fine i did a few quests and then it rebooted its self when it came to the desktop it told me the windows had recoverd from an error which i normally see after a blue screen. The problems seem to be less often but are still there on another hard drive.

 

You shouldn't be using a version of windows not intended for a new PC anyway. You should really be using a fresh install of windows.

 

What do you mean?

 

If you substantially change the hardware in a PC but keep the same install of windows you can get stability problems. It's highly recommended you use a fresh install of windows when you completely change the hardware in a PC (i.e. don't just move your old PC's hard disk into a new system and expect it to work)

 

So the problems in with the xp hard drive are because of this?

 

With any drive you use if it's already got windows installed on it, quite possibly. Install a new version of windows with the correct drivers on a fresh drive (backup and wipe one of your existing drives if you didn't buy another).

 

The hard drive with windows 7 on was blank and i installed windows 7 on the hard drive in the computer i built. The Xp hard drive was from another computer but when i wiped it and put xp back on i did it in another computer. I looked at the files on the hard drive and i have found alot of files that should have been wiped but have not so i will have to do it again and see how it works. Does the windows 7 disk have a limit of installs? This is what i Used

 

I havnt done anything to my computer or really used it because i have been doing other things. I came on today and it gave me a new blue screen error, memory managment so i looked on the internet to find out what it was and looked at a forum where people had the blue screen error and some one had said this:
"It's a simple problem if you actually understand the architecture of the
computer. I have seen this in both XP and Vista.

The problem is that under load (eg Vista) the system needs to push more
power to the certain elements of the PC one of these elements is the HDD
and the other is the RAM, hence the memory dump that comes with this
BSOD.

The pc can't get enough power to the RAM in time for the process and so
crashes. I am not certain this is the case but I have seen the problem
solved on many systems with a PSU upgrade. (400W upto 550W, etc.)

As I say I am not certain but this certainly solved the problem on the
many pcs i have encountered with the issue."

Before you had said it could be due to the psu and that the one i have isnt very good so do you think the psu is definatly my problem?