[Deonilin]

tulkas is buying from america being american, so doesnt have to think about exchange rates.

I believe also that he is going to go with vista anyway.

[Calz]

i've got to be honest mine was a bit of a laugh, and a kind of wish of if i had £700 but my descisions can be not the best informed, lol.


my pc has stability issues within windows, i dont know if this is vista, my mobo or cpu heat issues. so i may save up for a new mobo, cooler. boot times are getting worse and worse. it goes to a black screen with the mouse pointer on for about 30 seconds before the fade-in vista logo appears.. peh, cant be my lack of ram as i have 4GB of geil black dragon (only have 32bit so am only acheiving 3.25gb) but i dunno, will sort it out if i ever come round to getting any spare cash..




screens, i think the most important things to look for are

contrast ratio
respone time
resolution


but i'm not 100% sure as i got a nice 19" Dell flatscreen given to me becase someone thought it was broken and ordered themselves a new 22" widescreen

i like the look of this

http://www.novatech.....html?LG-W1952T or http://www.novatech....html?SAM-T190LS
but obviously its how far your budget can stretch, i'm guessing if you save a little on the pc the more you can spend on a monitor etc

EDIT: i didnt notice you prefrence on size of monitor lol duh. i found this tho http://www.novatech.....html?ASU-VH226 i might have to save up for me to get it



i take it you have a keyboard and mouse??

This post has been edited by Calz: 12 February 2009 - 06:47 PM

[Driskell]

If your computer blocking on a black screen at bootup I'm thinking it could be down to dodgy driver issues or dodgy software you've installed.
If a driver got updated and it gone dodgy could cause it I think, or just bootup applications that run in the background with a service or something may cause it, although really they shouldn't do that, but some fools think its great to have their programs load 1 second faster by spending 10 seconds loading it all at bootup... retarded really.

Then again, could be hardware issue that is making itself known through the driver lol... Just a thought.

[Adam]

Calz, on Feb 12 2009, 06:35 PM, said:

my pc has stability issues within windows, i dont know if this is vista, my mobo or cpu heat issues. so i may save up for a new mobo, cooler. boot times are getting worse and worse. it goes to a black screen with the mouse pointer on for about 30 seconds before the fade-in vista logo appears.. peh, cant be my lack of ram as i have 4GB of geil black dragon (only have 32bit so am only acheiving 3.25gb) but i dunno, will sort it out if i ever come round to getting any spare cash..

Have you checked your event logs to see if any errors are logged? such as any services been unable to start etc.

[Calz]

tbh, i reformated it pretty recently and only have the bare minimum i can live on (incl games of course)

and tbh all the runs on startup is my

logitech keyboard drivers
realtek audio manager (duh really lol)
a webcam driver, but tbh i dont think that could be the source of my issues although i will have a look and see if i can change how it boots up...

i havent looked through my error logs to be fair, might take a look now...

i am also getting semi regular IE hangs... usually while looking at www.prodirectsoccer.com heh

This post has been edited by Calz: 14 February 2009 - 10:23 PM

[Calz]

i think it is something to do with vista, seeing as Windows 7 beta boots quicker and on an IDE drive o,O


meh i will have to have a look at whats running in vista..

[Calz]

i dont have a clue what's making it slow.. but i got this boot up report lol


Windows has started up:
Boot Duration : 58569ms
IsDegradation : false
Incident Time (UTC) : 14/02/2009 23:26:46

i am am right.. thatts 58seconds??

to boot up vista... jesus
i have a boot log if anyone can make sense of it just ask and i'll copy and paste lol..

bit off topic sorry <3

[TulKas]

Meh, the student loan that is supposed to be covering this still hasn't come through yet, so I haven't moved on it.

Apparently while bored I checked google product search, and if I buy all the components I listed, and minus installation testing and 1 yr warranty, I end up saving $145 ... soooooooo, I'm considering building my own

-- but I've seen and heard horror stories from my friend who built his own machine that ended up costing him big when he couldn't resolve the problems with it, and ended up having to send him PSU in, wait 2 weeks to get a new one, find out the problem rly wasn't the PSU, send in the mobo, 2 weeks later got the new mobo and still didn't resolve the issue, so he took it to a repair shop and 4hrs later @ a cost of $200 extra he finally had his pc a whole month after he should have had it

Dunno, I'm not very good at trouble shooting and get frustrated / angry a little faster than maybe I should

I might save ~$150 altogether, although it might cost me months and loads of money if it doesn't work seamlessly too, so I'm a bit confused at what I should do when my loan finally does come through (waiting on FAFSA forms now, stupid gov crap that are like 500 pages long lol)

[Deonilin]

there are so many forums on the net that will help with trouble shooting, also you normaly only have to pay the postage for componants which are wrong which doesnt amount to that much.

[TulKas]

yeah most sites I was looking for gave free postage, however NCIX charges postage, however they don't charge taxes since theyre in canada, so its like $50 postage to ship the computer, and I save about $60 in taxes, so about zero sum, although I save the money on the components themselves

[Deonilin]

I ment if they break, the worst you have to pay is the postage there and back for the componant.