Anyone have any experience with this board? Love it, hate it, know of any reviews of it? http://www.msicomputer.com/product/detail_spec/product_detail.asp?model=865PE_Neo2-PFS_(Platinum_Edition)

a friend of mine asked me last night to help them fix their system, they're getting a no OS message and it appears as if the drive is no longer even formatted or partitioned. i haven't had a chance to actually check the system myself yet but i have a feeling it's not a hardware failure and...

I have an Albatron PX875P board and was installing 2x256MB of OCZ PC4000 Gold memory today and found that, no matter what the configuration, (1 stick, both sticks, single channel, dual channel) if there was a stick in DIMM3 the board wouldn't post and I'd get the one long repeating beep. Is there...

I have an evga nvidia 5600xt AGP8x card in an albatron px875p board with the latest bios, chipset and video drivers. I dual boot between win98 and win2k. in win2k the card is identified correctly but in win98 it's being detected as a PCI card instead of AGP and ever tool I check (sandra, aida32,...

I just added some new hardware and did a clean install of windows 98 (a couple times now with the same results) and I'm having a weird mouse problem. Initially I tried to use a Logitech wireless keyboard & mouse which both worked fine at first. I was able to get into the BIOS, both the keyboard and...

at the small office i work 2 monitors, a 21" dell/sony trinitron and a 19" ctx, have fried on the same system in 2 days. everything connected to that system including the monitor was plugged into an APC surge protector and everything else seems to be working fine so i don't think it was a...

any 12v fan will work, you could modify a 3 pin connector or it may fit as is depending on what's around it or you could splice the wires or.... i'd suggest replacing it with a panaflo fan. http://www.dorothybradbury.co.uk/ or look here to find other good fans. www.silentpcreview.com

Are there any yet that have a response time of 16ms?

i was recently updating some drivers on several systems in our small office and accidentally started the via driver update on a system which has a nvidia motheboard. the only damage it seemed to do before it errored out was elminate the cd and zip drives. i'm not having any luck getting them...

a lot of older kt266 & kt333 boards had problems using processors that used multipliers higher than 12.5 so the xp2000+ is the highest one you can really be sure will work. "Piotr Makley" wrote in message ... I am running a Duron in a Syntax...

i just built my mom a computer with windows xp. she knows absolutely nothing about computers. i could barely teach her to get online and send/receive email. does anyone one know a decent site or maybe an interactive CD or something that i can direct her to or get for her?

What are the best antivirus and firewall programs that won't cause conflicts with each other? Norton, McAfee and ZoneAlarm seem to cause as much trouble as they prevent.

has anyone else ever gone to one of these? have you ever found any good deals? seems like everything is either junk or current stuff you can get cheaper elsewhere.

what's the easiest way to get files off your computer from another location if that's all you need to do, get an occasional file not run anything, if your system has an always on DSL connection on a home network and uses XP Pro? router is a dlink DI-808HV.

you can get a ATI 7500 (not the all in wonder) for about $45. "Rhys" wrote in message ... Hello, Looking to get a cheap AGP card which must be fanless (dont like noise!). Performance not much of an issue coz I won't be...

Anyone ever seen a black version of the MS Natural Keyboard or similar keyboard?

http://www.48bitlba.com/ "blackbat" wrote in message ... Having trouble installing a new Samsung SP1604N 160Gb hard drive. My mobo is an ASUS A7M266 with BIOS flashed to latest (1007). The BIOS auto-detects the hdd as...

Issue: Unable to install SB16 or Live Value in FIC VA-503+ with Windows 2000 Background: Can see issue history in previous news posts "SB Live Value (CT4830) in FIC VA-503+ on W2k" and "SB16 PCI (CT4740) on FIC VA-503+ running W2K" System Board: FIC VA-503+ v. 1.1a (Via VP3 586B chipsets) System...

Have 2 hds master and slave on ide 1 have a dvd-r as master on ide 2 want to add a pioneer dvd rom which is the 120s which is udma66 where should i fit it? is it ok on the same ide as the dvd-r ( also pioneer) cheers

I used the live update to patch my bios but somewhere along the way it failed. When I restarted machine I get nothing, no screen etc. I found the AMI Bios recovery information and downloaded latest bios, renamed to amiboot.rom etc etc. I restarted machine. Hit Ctrl - Home and the disk is read. ...