Hello gents, sorry for the cross posting, not sure which forums this effects, but I currently have several boxen: dual g4 1.25ghz, athlon xp 2000, and a dual p3 933 and I want a new rig for DVD to DIVX conversion specifically. Encoding DVD video to DIVX on my dual mac g4 takes something along...

Hi, I have that motherboard, but I have a question that I can not get any answer from Asus or the Mobo's instruction I already have the nVIdia SATA controler fill, and when I try to add another to the second SATA connector set, all I get is an error message telling me that there is no proper...

Hello. It looks like my very old 19" Samsung SyncMaster 931BF monitor is dying since it has problems turning on (black screens, flickers to black and display fast, etc.) on multiple desktop computers. It is time to find a replacement. -22" horizontal width max(imum) due to my limited desk...

Hi there, after installing a new ASUS P4P800SE and a Geforce FX5200LP I can't get WindowsXP to show the second monitor. I have two Samtron 91S TFT, one connected to the D-Sub Port and the other to the DVI port using an adaptor. Both monitors work and show identical desktop. Can't expand Desktop to...

In , on 03/28/2004 at 06:17 PM, Jean-David Beyer said: But more likely, it would go down by executing wrong instructions, using wrong registers, wrong addresses, etc. Only if the designers were on crack. The technology to detect...

Hello, Last night i checked my computer hard-drive and it was 75 gb free space and now today it is 63.3gb free, I have also selected every folder in my C: drive and clicked properties and it shows that my harddisk actually has only used 30gb I have a 111gb drive (meant to be 120gb) So do the maths

I switch on computer (dual boot), Windows XP starts to load then freezes after logo screen and before start menu screen, Windows 98 freezes just before desktop appears. Sometimes I get to the desktop before the freeze happens. Have occasionally lost display and twice got random colours all over...

I'm currently building a PC to play games, last thing I've not decided on is a power supply, simply because I don't know! I've seen them with prices ranging all over the place from £10 for a 400w to £70 for a 400w (UK). What I'm wondering is, if I go for a cheap PSU, apart from noise and heat...

Someone is testing out some LVD SCSI drives I gave him, and he told me that the data rate with the cable I gave him is 40mb instead of the advertised 80mb per second. He said he thinks that some sort of "Active Negation" terminator is needed, and I was wondering if someone could elaborate on what...

Greetings! I have a single screw, within a black "plastic" configuration, that holds the metal left panel of my Sun Ultra 30 computer system. The screw went in too tight. And, in trying to remove it, I have really seriously "messed up" the phillips head of the screw. (Stripped didn't...

I have a Dell Inspiron 6400 which is 1.25 years old. When I first got it, the fan worked great, and you could feel the air being blown out the back. Now you can't anymore, and the laptop's getting very hot. There was a lot of dust on the intake vents, and I blew the dust off of those, but it...

I am trying to design a new computer because I am unsatisfied with current models. The first thing I have to do is redesign the motherboard: it will probably require me to repackage at least some of the microchips. First, however, i need a little help. If anyone would be so kind, please e-mail me...

Was wondering if someone could give me some insight on this one. I currently have an AMD Athlon system with an AverTV Studio TV card which I use to record digital video. It´s normally plugged into cable TV, with a signal booster where the house cabling meets the street cable. Yesterday I bought an...

Hello, The whole point of this is just for fun and to get an idea of what people are really running these days, so tell us: How big is YOUR hard drive(s)? I have A WD 200GB plus two raided (RAID-0) 60GB making 320 GB total on my main computer. My second computer uses a WD 40GB, my server has a...

Hi, I have change my motherboard an A6N266-VM for a A7N8X-E Deluxe, and ever since the system is rebooting all by itself, I have made every upgrade possible including a BIOS upgrade to the latest version. What could cause these problems BTW. I'm using XP Pro with all Windows Updates installed

OK, I give up. I need some advice on selecting a multiple OS Boot Manager and Partitioning Tool. I am overwhelmed by all of the information I have found (see below) so I am appealing to those of you that have been down this path before. Thanks in advance, Errol

i've three drives, a new HD a new CDRW and an ancient CD ROM... and two connectors on motherboard, which should i put with which? was advised put HD and old CD on one cable, new CDRW on the other, what do ye recommend??

I'm looking into getting a faster, bigger hard drive. The drives on the shelf at the local computer stores all list ATA/100 or ATA/133. I see articles on the net on IDE/ATA vs SCSI. So, is ATA the same as IDE? If not, what's the relationship? I'm running an IBM 300PL 550mhz PIII, Win98 first...

Here's the problem, I have an IBM Netfinity 5100 with a ServerRaid 4x Ultra 160. I originally built the server with three drives in a Raid 5, everything was fine, no problems. Recently I purchased three additional drives and fully populated the cage, the problem is when I run either the Mini Config...

I put in a new 40gig Maxtor HDD in September and it's worked fine...This afternoon my comp was acting a little cranky and I decided to reboot it. It was going fine, the drive needed a check disk, so I let that go. I checked back and it had a blue screen "INACCESSABLE_BOOT_DISK" error. Rebooted. Got...