I was just looking at the BIOS chips on a few motherboards I have laying around here. The one on my ~2000AD board is the same type I had on my first IBM clone from 1990 - a big one you can remove easily by hand. On my ~ 3 year old mboard, it has a little socketed thing called a PLCC with 32...

....perhaps an unusual video card question. I'm about to order parts for a new business type machine. ...already posted the specs here a few days ago. ...only 1 question that I still haven't been able to answer. I'm looking at a Tyan motherboard. Tomcat n3400b (S2925) for an AMD...

I inquire this question once and awhile.. Is there a standard benchmarking software accepted as standard and undoubtable? The once and awhile check in searching has revealed more and more software... On another note, its been a year for my 6th home pc and use distributed.net client as...

Hi, I have an Intel DG965RY motherboard that insists on running it's 'AUX FAN' at 4200 RPM which sounds like a jet aircraft taking off. It runs the outlet fan at a respectable 3200 RPM, which is nice and quiet. Either I'm too damn stupid to figure out how to control the fan speed on this mobo...

So what is used for overtemp alarms? Or do people bother? Or is this now hidden in the OS somewhere? I have the P5B-E, an ATI card, and run XP-Pro. Asus has tools but I don't know how to make them wake up on the tray. ATI has the CCC but I don't see a temp alarm in it. Thanks.

Is there a keyboard & mouse (without video) switch to use with 2 computers? Since the monitor has 2 video inputs, I don't really want a KVM switch.

Using one of those cute monitor programs I noticed my hard drive is going up to 50C, idles around 44C. Is this hot as hell like I think it is? Is there a way to stop, limit, prevent my hard drive from getting so GD Hot? Also, why are drive made this way?

I recently hooked up an external Memorex cdrw (52x32x52) to my laptop -- which already has a cdrw/dvd player in it. The idea was to rip cd's into iTunes faster via the external (not to do 2 at once). But it draaaaags when ripping, something like 2x. I've seen lots of writing about SCSI and IDE...

While I was fishing around trying to figure out why my hard drives seem slow, I saw that in my Device Manager there are two primary IDE channels and two secondary IDE channels showing up. One of the primary channels shows the mode as being ultra DMA 5, I presume this is the 'real' one. The other...

Hey, I forgot to include a link to where I found the best deal on the Spire 300,000 MTBF 400 Watt PS. I spent about half an hour comparison shopping, and the best deal I found was he www.shop4tech.com $39.99 including shipping, no tax here

....about to order the parts for a new machine. I'm looking for opinions or for things I may have overlooked. I want to keep the price to about $1600 (the below comes to $1636 from Newegg), but if there is something worth buying I can go slightly higher. The primary purpose is for business type...

Hi folks, I'm running into a strange problem with my PC hanging (freeze) apparently when the CPU load drops suddenly from 100% like when exiting a full load application. I've poked around a little in searches but found nothing conclusive yet to help me with this problem, I hope someone here...

I am trying to connect a Zalman Heatsink/Fan model CNPS9500 to my ASUS Motherobard model P5NSLI. My confusion is the following: The heatsink has a 3-pin female connector on the end which is suppose to be connected to the CPU Fan power connector on the motherboard. However, this motherboard...

Hey folks. Getting ready to build a new system and this is my first with the new dual core chips so I'm not sure what bus speeds match the ram speeds. What speed RAM do I want if I am using a Core 2 Duo E6400 at 1066mhz? I know with the P4s I would have an 800mhz CPU so I would get PC3200 at...

Hi again. I am wondering what Video card to put in my new core 2 duo system. I never really got into graphics too much but it looks like I'm going to be forced to with Vista's requirements and such. What is a good card? What things am I looking for? Thanks!

Turned it on this morning and all I now get is a quiet fast clicking sound. The front LED light wont come on either anymore.

hi, i have a pc in my office room,its an old pc by compaq 4 yrs old,runs xp professional,it do not have a s video slot.i have a projector in my basement and i would like to connect my pc to my projector.is it possible at all????can i wirelessly do something???? can i connect physically,are any...

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Well, it looks like I'm going to RMA the LG H42 18X DVD burners I got from Newegg about a week ago. It takes these drives on average 25 to 28 minutes to rip a 6 to 7 GB DVD video. The drives just can't rip faster...

Hi, Bill. I found myself in a very similar situation recently, when trying to add a couple of new drives to my roughly 3 year old system. Prior to that, the system often would only come up properly the second time it was turned on. After adding the drives, my onboard sound quit working, and a...

Hi Guys, yet another problem. I have bought a Vibe EN306-TV3.5 Multi media player Dvix,Mp4,Avi , AV S-video USB external enclosure, and put in a Samsung 400Gb HDD. Ok, my problem is that my computer keeps saying that the device has malfunctioned and window does not recognize it. I am running...