Hi, I'm currently running a P3-800 Slot1 100FSB CPU on a Gigabyte BX2000 motherboard/Win2K with 1GB RAM. For most of my purposes, the performance is fine, except that average time to encode a 700MB DivX file takes 5-6 hours (ATI Radeon 7000 32MB video card). Does anyone know if I'd gain much...

Hi, I have a J-542A Motherboard and I have recently purchased 256 MEG( 1 x 168pin DIMM). The problem is that only 128 MEG is being registered/counted by the computer, I cant understand this. My OS is Windows XP Pro. Thanks for your help

I forgot I changed my nic. Here is my follow up: Thanks Rich that makes sense because they are different. I did format the hard drive in the different computer with the WinXP CD but still got the blue screen. Should I just format it in the newer computer then reinstall in the other computer and...

Dear Andy: I have had a few of the kt7s5a motherboards by ECS. I think they have had some bad batches. I ended up returning mine for replacements. Currently have the pro version, but only as a backup. I ended up putting some more money down and got the Lanparty motherboard and am using it with...

I would appreciate some expert opinions on the systems sold on this site. I am contemplating buying a high-end unit, but am not a HW expert. Thanks for any replies. http://www.stores.ebay.com/store=14814705

I'm thinking of a widescreen LCD for video editing and would really appreciate some input. Has anyone any experience of the Philips 170w4p and Samsung 172w? Comparisons? Thanks in advance.

Hello I have a MSI FX5600 - Model No. MS-8912 I have driver 4523 installed. When I go to Live Update3 on MSI - it wants to install driver 4403........ Before following blindly........ is this correct? Thanks John Hellingsworth

if you RW on a DVD will all the data be erasred or will the data stay like on a hard drive -- Krish Sharma Brisbane,Australia www.users.bigpond.net.au/sharma-family www.the-ultimate-website.com

Hi, I have a GeForce 3 Ti 200 from Leadtek. It's a 2x/4x AGP card (as the pins show). I'm wondering if the card will be OK on a AGP 4x card like the ones for Pentium 4s... Will its voltage fit the 1.5v requirement? I couldn't find anything on Leadtek's site... TIA! Bruno

I have an extra computer I want to install XP on. Stupidy I installed the HDD from it in my primary computer and installed XP on it. I then re-installed the HDD in the extra computer and got a stop screen. I even tried Win2000 and it did basically the same thing. WinXP was installed on the extra...

I have been reading negative reports on Kingston HyperX KHX3200K2 CAS 2-2-2-6-1 in comp.sys.intel newsgroup. I don't intend to overclock this (Intel 875PBZ board) but do want to use the above memory timings. Anybody here have experience with these modules? -- Aloke

Does anyone know whether I can replace the electronics with only a board from an identical drive or is there any commonality between drives. IBM DPTA-372050 20.5GB It would be handy to retrieve the data off the dead drive. Rgds Dave

Please HELP .... I accidentially delete the harddrive partition and kindly please advise how I can recover it ASAP..... Million thanks in advance, indeed!!! Arion

Need Hardware Wizard I am not a hardware guru, but have built a few PC's. I have a Dell Dimension 8100 with onboard controller, one 40 GB HDD, CD-ROM, DVD burner and IOMEGA ZIP drive (total of four devices the max for my onboard controller). I wanted to add a second fast hard drive for...

Hello. I've a HP 710c printer. On this days the color cartridge got empty... it was 1am and I needed to print something at the moment. So, I thought on a solution... putting some drops of water on the ink exit...so, this drops, mixed with the dry ink, will allow me to print what I needed. The next...

I have a Clevo 2700T (rebadged Excel) I have a firewire ADS Pyro external enclosure (any of 3 hard disks) and a Datafab MD2-FW-USB 2.5 inch enclosure and a firewire DV-8 Sony camera. Also have 2 desktop Pc's, one with a pci firewire card (Texas chipset) and the MB port on my other machine (MSI KT4...

is this sound card internal or external or both http://us.hercules.com/products/showpage.php?p=57&b=0&f=1 -- Krish Sharma Brisbane,Australia www.users.bigpond.net.au/sharma-family www.the-ultimate-website.com

I am building a new PC. Will be using the 875 chipset motherboard. Question is, go with Intel or Asus. My previous experiences with ASUS (particularly on the AMD, VIA chipset) were not that great. So, is there a compelling reason to go with ASUS if I do not plan on overclocking? Thanks! Dan

God I'm sick of helping 'friends' with their PCs. I need help with this latest one. A while ago I upgraded an old Kaiyo machine for a (financially challenged) friend from an AMD 686 100Mhz to a P166MMX, bumped the RAM up from 8MB to 64MB and slapped in a 256Kb COAST module and added a PCI NIC so...

g'day all Quick question: does the brand of USB flash drives count for much? well-known brands vs. generic brands thx D3