How does one begin to learn to code x86 assembly? I know where to find the IA-32 developers manuals, but how do I start writing assembly programs for a Windows PC?

"Franklin" wrote in message ... Last year Intel announced, BTX, the follow-=on to the ATX form factor. For example, http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=1876 What has happened to BTX? Has it been dropped? Has it been delayed? ...

"Tone-EQ" wrote in message ... Last year Intel announced, BTX, the follow-=on to the ATX form factor. For example, http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=1876 What has happened to BTX? Has it been dropped? Has it been...

"Key-Board" wrote in message ... BTX = Bit The (what's a word for "dust" that stars with X?) Blonde at my office responds: "jumped the shark"? AJ (hehe)

IBM has created a graphic showing the various Itanium sales forecasts over the years, where every subsequent sales forecast shrinks lower and lower, which can be called the "Great Leveling". http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/09/18/ibm_plots_idc_mistakes/ Original IBM...

Hi, Why does the northwood cost more than the prescott for the same speed chip? I thought the northwood would be cheaper since this is the older slower chip. Whatever. Just curious why a older chip costs more than the newer chip. Thanks,

Hi group, anyone know why my USB ports will not recognise a Lexar Media Jump Drive with a Microsoft Word file on it created on a Macintosh? It sees the stick, (Drive F) but I'm getting the error message: no disc in drive F: Anyone.....? ATB Nick

Just a reminder; Real World Technologies' will be holding an online Q&A/discussion session with guest Rajesh Kota, about Newisys' Horus chipset for the Opteron on Wednesday, September 22nd at 12-1:30pm Pacific Standard Time. There is a presentation on Horus from Hotchips...

On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 16:13:32 +0100, Franklin wrote: Is there a rough rule of thumb which indicates the price difference between an AMD system and an Intel system of the same power? In a word, no. I am thinking of just the processor and mobo. (I don't think memory...

I'm in the process of configuring a W2k server for general file/print sharing and for the same price have the choice of; A Single Xeon 3.06 w/1MB cache or a dual Xeon 3.06 Ghz w/512K cache each Anyone know which would be better? I assume the dual processor but it's only a guess. Thanks

I replaced the processor in my IBM Thinkpad A31 today, going from a 1.8Ghz to 2.4Ghz Pentium 4-M. When I replaced it, I noticed a layer of thermal grease that had been placed on the processor (I assume for a close contact with the heatsink, which was placed just above it). Unfortunately, I didn't...

Does anyone know of a cpu-temperature monitoring program that runs under DOS, or is part of a boot-time suite of apps? I want to monitor cpu temperature on a system with no OS installed. I would use the available Linux utilities to do this, but my Slackware boot disk doesn't have a kernel with...

is there something that checks the PC constantly and if it's down it will "push" the switch to turn it on? thankx.

Having some trouble with my home desktop. The NIC is attached to the motherboard, first it just Started displaying network cable not connected. I reinstalled drivers etc, but the problem persisted. It started working for a little bit, but then went out again. Then I put in another NIC into a...

Hi all... I ordered a Pentium 4-M from PC Connection, and it arrived. The thing is, it arrived, in an Intel box, but without the fan and heat-sync it was supposed to come with. I called PC Connection, and they said, yes, it was supposed to come with one. But they didn't know why it didn't. I...

I had a problem where my BIOS was not reporting my SATA or PATA drives correctly on my D875PBZ motherboard. Even though I have two SATA drives (Raid 0), it was only showing 1 in the BIOS. I also have 2 CD drives on the PATA (primary channel) that didn't show up at all. Windows still found all...

The previously named Windows XP and 2003 "64-bit edition for 64-bit extended systems" has now just been shorted to "for X64". Eg. Windows XP Pro for X64 or Windows Server 2003 for X64. Looks like Microsoft has decided on X64 as the universal moniker for all X86-64 marketing names. Yousuf...

Dothan laptop processors being cut in price. Sonoma laptop chipset still being delayed to 2005. http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20040923A1001.html Yousuf Khan -- Humans: contact me at ykhan at rogers dot com Spambots: just reply to this email address ;-)

Hello, I have a pc and a laptop. I know for sure that my laptop has usb2, but I don't really know if my pc has usb2. When I go to 'Device Manager' on my laptop or pc, I see nothing that tells me it's usb2. So I can't really know. Is there a way (a tool or so) to detect if I have usb2 on my pc?

Hi, I have a mother (Asus Digimatrix) that supports P4 and Celeron. Do you think it will also work with Celeron D? It is not listed as supported CPU. But, I thought Celeron D is fully compatible with Celeron. I purchased a Celeron D 2.4G. The mother board does not even boot. No beep and no VGA...