Anybody else notice how quickly the price of USB flash drives is falling? NewEgg has some very cheap. My BIOS has flash drive settings HDD and floppy. What's the difference? I've read comments about making a windows XP bootable media out of a 2 GB flash drive, for what it's worth. They seem a...

I have an ABIT NF7-S board with XP2500+. I need to upgrade but am, frankly, lost with the choices! I need to use my AGP based ATi 9800 AIW card as one of my need is to capture and convert home videos. I want to go the AMD route. For video work I need a reasonably fast PC. The PC will not be for...

I've been planning these parts for two weeks and have been refining the list ever since, but more input from pro's can never hurt. I was wondering if anyone would mind giving some pointers? Are these parts compatible? Are they good parts? Is there anything else I should invest in? Any help would be...

Well, i got a good deal on a MSI K8T motherboard and AMD 64 3000+ processer combo, and i am running windows xp home with sp2 right now. I am attempting to swap from a Matsonic Mobo and a 1.5 P4, but i am not getting any post. I am using an ATI radeon 9550 agp card, so i suspect its just a driver...

How can you tell pc100 from pc133 modules? I mean, from looking at them. Thanks, Mike

Bill Gates was in Washington this week, as usual lobbying for an increase in H-1B visas. The richest man in the world earned his keep when he looked our president in the eye and (without laughing) said "Microsoft needs cheap, easy to control foreign programmers to remain competitive". Both Bill...

connection lost after a couple hours after surfing the net for a couple hours i lose (part of) my internet connection if im using azureus or a messenger stuff like that they stay connected and i can continue using the website that i am on at the time it happends but i cant connect to any other...

I am in need of some help if it is possible to power up a motherboard without hooking up the case power switch, I mean is it possible to do anything with the jumpers that the power switch would normally connect to to see if the motherboard will power up? I ask this cause as I was one day starting...

I have a p4 1.7ghz processor on an Asus P4 mobo. I may upgrade in the near future and want to know if the Asus p5v800 mobo will fit in a case this old. I know squat about this but I don't know how a mobo would not fit inside a case but thought I'd check first. Thanks!! Eddie G

Just built a new system, AMD Athlon 64 x2 dual core with nVidia GeForce 7900 PCI-express video card. Well, tested mobo+cpu+graphics by booting with Ubuntu (latest) and unfortunately ubuntu could not detect the graphics and gave bizarre and unusable display, could not load X (graphics). Knoppix v4...

I like to tinker. I enjoy swapping out motherboads and video cards. I get a bit of a thrill each time I power on a system with new inards and watch it post. Ok, maybe I need to get a life. I have a socket A system (Abit NF7 Mb and AthlonXP 2800+). I'm thinking of upgrading to a socket 754 or...

Does anyone know of a mouse that allows you to click on the area around the scroll wheel rather than clicking the scroll wheel itself? Like for example: http://www.nulime.com/p9845/cat2380/Mice/Optical/Kensington-Iridio-Optical-Mouse.html The gray area around the scroll wheel, is that clickable...

Hi cyber folk, Just wondering if anyone has / is experiencing this problem, I have built this PC, and when I hit the Power button it lights up for one sec (see fans spin) and then off. - nothing / nada. The green light on the A8N is on, thats it. I can press the button again -...

I have finally put together a brand new PC build using the following components Antec TX640B case with Antec 400W SmartPower PSU ASUS A8N5X motherboard AMD Athlon 64 3500 processor 1GB Corsair TwinX 3200 DDR RAM (2x512MB matched) 200GB Seagate Barracuda SATA HDD Floppy Disc drive Lite-On DVD RW

I just bought a complete new system and I am running - BIOSTAR TFORCE4U nforce 4 ultra motherboard AMD 64 3500+ cpu eVGA GeForce 6800GS pci-e 1 GB ddr 400 sdram. The problem that I am having is that I had the system running for a couple days and it was working fine. I then started to try...

I was just given a Emachine T2042. I am told that a hair dryer was plugged into the same line and now the PC won't power up. I am not sure if the PS has blown or the MB is dead. I would like to fix this for my friend but am not sure where to start. I figured I would start by replacing the PS first....

I am ready to assemble my new system-- AMD cpu (AMD Athlon X2 4400, dual core cpu) came with heat sink and fan and the cpu, but no thermal compound. I am not sure if I need to apply thermal compound as I have in the past for CPUs. The instructions for installing the cpu are very brief, almost...

I would be very grateful if someone could help me out with the following problem. My main WinXP desktop is attached to a wireless Belkin router which was itself attached to a terayon cable modem(for ntl broadband internet). I have 2 other computers linked wirelessly to the router. My problem began...

I just put a copy of Windows XP SP2 on my PC, I ran all the update except the two .net one because they fail to install. I have tried to install Norton System works 2006 which will not install, I have tried to install the latest Java and that says windows installer service fails to start. I...

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