I'm ditching my Abit KT7-Raid and 1.1GHz TB and thinking of going for a Gigabyte GA-7N400-L1 and a 2500+ Athlon XP (333MHz Barton core) with PC2700 RAM as it's a reasonably priced combination. I just have a few questions before I get the credit card out; 1. Does anyone have any comments, good or...

Soundblaster PCI 128 Cards are cheep, I am not sure about video cards, are Gforce 2 cards that cheep now? bruce little wrote: Hi all. I have a home-built system and I have been using an old Cirrus logic PCI video card. After trying to run some new games, it has become painfully obvious...

=A1Hola! I own a Socket-7 MoBo (GA-586VX). Once upon a time I had to replace a quality CPU fan/heatsink-combo having a metal clamp by a replacement combo. That replacement incorporated a plastik-clamp. It required a lot of sheere force to be applied to the socket. Now -- wanting to replace the...

Hi, I am going to being installing my old hard disk, which has Windows XP onto a new motherboard w/ CPU. As you know, extreme changes in hardware configuration for an Windows 2000 or XP computer, will result in a "Stop" error. Is there anyway to avoid the "Stop" error? thanks

Is SATA designed as an interconnect between chassis ? Will there be an external SATA connector at the back of my server ? -- Al Dykes -----------

With a large drive (120GB or larger) with NTFS and XP what would you recommend as the best way to divide up these drives for optimum performance? I've read where it's a good idea to place XP on a partition smaller than 20GB, but what about the rest of the drive....for optimum performance should...

Does anyone know of a software utility that I can use to monitor the temp of my video card. ASUS-Geforce 4 ti 4600.. Thanks..

On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 13:32:05 +1000, Tony Roe wrote: Hi, My new PC has an Intel D875PBZ motherboard, which has only two IDE ports. I'll be booting from a SATA drive, with a DVD-ROM and CD-RW on the IDE channels, and I expected to also add UDMA100 removable drive...

A friend of mine gave me her laptop, a IBM ThinkPad i Series Model 1161 with screen problems. The screen appears very greenish and sometimes pink/purple flickering. At first I thought it is a typical videodriver problem and installed all the latest drivers. I soon found out though that the...

The last PC I built was about 3 years ago, my current Tyan Tiger 133 with dual P3 850MHz cpu's. It has 512MB in it (4x128MB PC133). Needless to say, I'm ready to upgrade. But, I need a little assistance to be brought up on the speed of things. I am looking at the following: Intel Pentium-4 @...

Hello I have a 4m ATI vid card and I dislike paying 30 bucks plus s/h for adding ram to make it 8m. It is in my Sony Vaio and has a header on the card for an external module to provide a/v and SVIDEO outs/ins. The header looks like an old timey lpt header on an AT board. Did all early ATI's...

Hello there, I know this post is offtopic, but seeming as I need some advice, and the monitor newsgroups are completely deserted I thought that this newsgroup was less OT than others.. sorry if u dont agree Ok my problem is that im building a pc and the specification is all black (got the case and...

I'm looking for a manual in .PDF or other downloadable format for a Micron Millennia Pro2 Dual Pentium Pro circa 1996 or the Micronics W6-Li motherboard that's used in this PC.

A couple of years back, someone was asking about disabling onboard VGA in order to run a PCI based graphics card. My question is this: Did anyone succeed and if so, how? I want to install a TNT2 Tornado and am having problems. TIA Rod

bankruptcey stock sale. everything listed here is new. Intel P4 CPU Boxed. $175.00 each. Maxtor 120gb Hard Drive ide 7200 rpm $95.00 video cards, mother boards, and many many other parts available.

Hi I'm interested in setting up a simple Hard disk test/diagnostic work bench for Hard disks from the pc Windows world. (I'd also be interested to hear of similar solutions for other operating systems) (Can one use a standard pc for this?) Can one attach a new hard disk while the computer is...

Win2K doesn't have scandisk. It uses Checkdisk. It's usually best to let it run, but it will tell you to press a key to skip it just before it starts. If you're talking about WinME (or just about any 9x OS) use MSCONFIG to disable it.

I've priced out a custom build for a guy but he wants to go with a prebuilt system like HP, Compaq, Dell, etc... so I've been trying to find some online retailers to compare with our local shops. Does anyone here have any websites to suggest? I've tried tigerdirect.com, dell.com, gateway.com, and...

Many people say AMD processors heat too much too fast compared to Intel products and thus they cause computers to crash. Is that true? How much more heat does it generates compared to an equivalent spec. Intel processor? Is it true that professionals avoid AMD processors for these reasons and also...

Hiyah, A friend of mine has a problem with their PC, sadly they can't connect to the net to post this themselves, so they have asked me on their behlalf. If anyone can help, they and I will be most appreciated, thanks !! Okay, the problem is the PC turns on but the red light (by the drum/tube...