As part of my ongoing fight to get that one POS Asus Nforce motherboard going properly, Asus tech support is telling me that I have to make sure that my power supply is ACPI 2.0 compliant. I know this is nothing but a bull**** excuse, something they're telling me to get them off their backs,...

I was just wondering: If the cache (L1&L2) of a processor are completely invisible for the programmer, being totally controled by hardware, why does Windows (not sure about linux or other O.S) give the option to activate these and even more, why do you get a better performance. Can the Cache be...

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Hi there I am trying to add memory to an IBM PS/1 Model 2123 The IBM PS/1 Model 2123 has 2 MB of non removable RAM and two connectors for 72-pin SIMMs. From what I have found on the web, it can handle SIMMs up to 8 MB each, giving a total of (2 * 8) + 2 = 18 MB of RAM. I have tried installing...

My kids have a pretty old PC (a P4 1.6MHz) which has a single PC133 DIMM module fitted (128 or 256Mb, can't remember). I happen to have two old 64Mb PC100 DIMMs from an old PC kicking about at home - would it be OK/feasible/sensible to fit these in the two vacant slots on the kids' mobo? I...

A few weeks ago, AMD published the SPECint2000 score for the FX-53: http://www.spec.org/cpu2000/results/res2004q3/cpu2000-20040628-03181.html SPECint2000_peak = 1700 SPECint2000_base = 1601 I see that they used Intel's compiler on Windows XP Professional. Please correct me if I am wrong. Windows...

Hi: Below is an example of "parallel Hz" http://img56.imageshack.us/img56/2427/clocksignalexample8is.gif If each clock signal is 1 Hz, and you have a billion of them, staggered such that every 1ns part of the CPU can start, and finish, an instruction - making the effective 'clock rate' 1 GHz.

Very detailed and technical play-by-play of somebody discovering a rootkit installed on their system by Sony Corp.! You gotta wonder what somebody could do if they weren't familiar with the low-level details of a Windows system, like this guy was? Mark's Sysinternals Blog: Sony, Rootkits and...

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Hi all, I'm getting a bit desperate about the following problem, hopefully someone could point me into the right direction: I'm not a computer hardware expert, but I usually am capable enough to build my own PC with the components I prefer. Friday last week I bought new components for my PC. My...

My old Dell is rapidly failing on me so I am in the market for new PC. I will be running 4 19" LCDs to start and might replace one of them with a 24" WS LCD. At any given time I typically have 20 IE browser windows open, plus 5 Word docs, 5 PDFs, 2 excel sheets, outlook, and calc. I might in...

I am planning on upgrading my home brew computer from Win98/512MB to WinXP Media Center/1GB. I currently have two sticks of KHX3200K2/256MB and I have the timings set to 2-2-2-6 with MAT/PAT enabled. According to Memtest86 I am getting a write speed of 2570MB. I see that Kingston no longer makes...

Hi, I'm trying to assemble a PC with moderate-to-low computing power, hoping that I will be able to get something with as close to ZERO dB of noise as possible. I thought the Atom processors were designed to use no fan, but the available MB/CPU combos I've seen sport a big heat sink with fan. I...

Hi! I have severe overheating problems with my Pentium IV 550 processor (at the normal frequency of 3.40GHz) so I'm looking for advice on how to best underclock it (to diminish heat production as much as possible with no degradation of system stability and only a relatively small performance...

I'm about to build a small form factor PC for gaming and am looking for some advice. So far the parts I've selected are as follows: -Shuttle SN25P Barebones Case/MB (socket 939; Nforce4 Chipset) -Athlon 64 3500+ (which I hope to overclock to around 2.5 GHz) -2 x 512MB PC 3200 Corsair XMS Extreme...

I've been a way from the computer building seen for a while and don't fully understand PCI express. I'm wanting to upgrade my video card and there are more PCI express cards out there than AGP. Do I need a new board to run a pci express graphics card? If so then that cuts $80 bucks off my graphics...

I learned in my basic digital logic and design courses that the clock rate determined the rate at which flip-flops/registers could read in data. My question is how can a GPU running at say, 500Mhz, clock-in AGP data at a rate of 2+GB/sec? I suppose if the registers clock in data on the rising...

I've been looking over the AGP 3.0 spec. and noticed there appear to be 8 pins dedicated to SBA and that SBA is a one way bus (from vid card to AGP port). This is about all I was able to get out of the documentation though. Is SBA merely the method by which a video card xfers addresses in the...

i have a old compaq uwave motherboard spinoff from the fic az11when i install my agp card i get a blank screen after running evest and wincpuid they both told me my agp was disabled ive upgraded to the latest bios from compaq but theres no options to set agp to primary or to enable or disable it....

I have a two year old Dell 8200, basically has the i850(not sure if it is an E or not) chipset on it, with a 82801A south bridge. I really don't follow much in the hardware world anymore so I get to ask dumb questions. I was hoping to increase the graphic power of this box, it currently has an...