A friend purchased a P35-DS3P mobo with two sticks of 1gb DDR2 RAM, a 3-pin Coolermaster HSF, and a PCI-E video card to upgrade an older P4 478 system in an ATX case. The PSU is a 480W Antec Truepower, and when everything is connected the only response is a quick flicker of the CPU fan--no POST,...

I have a Vipower USB mobile rack with a 300gb IDE drive enclosed that's formatted NTFS, used to backup important files for storage off-site. Once per month I update the files using a batch file (4NT) using this context for the copy command: COPY D:\TIFBAK\*.* L:\TIFBAK /U /S The problem is that...

I assembled two computers for friends recently, both with the new Dell 2405 widescreen monitor. One uses an Nvidia FX5200, the other an FX5500, both with DVI output--but when connected will not show any widescreen resolution options in DVI. I want 16:9 or 16:10 options, either at approx. 1280...

I have a friend with an Asus P4C800E-Deluxe mobo (Intel 875 chipset) who needs a very large amount of storage on one drive. It will not contain the OS or programs and will be designated as D:. I've ordered two 500gb PATA drives that I intend to set up on the Promise controller as RAID0,...

Does anyone know of an online store that has the low power (55 watt) single processor Opteron (146 HE) CPU -- either the boxed or the tray version -- in stock? The part number for the boxed version is OSK146ATBOX. Many online stores list it, but it always seems to be backordered or out of...

The 240EE is a low power Opteron CPU that runs at 1.15 volts rather than the 1.5 volts of the standard Opterons. Does anyone know whether the SK8V will detect that the CPU is a 240EE and, accordingly, adjust the CPU voltage to 1.15 volts? -- Bob Day

I have been trying to find out whether the Asus SK8N motherboard supports Chipkill memory error checking and correcting. Some newsgroup posts and websites I've found say yes, but the description of the SK8N on Asus' website doesn't mention Chipkill. Neither does the downloadable version of the...

"John Smith" wrote in message ... Hi: I am trying to find information on how to recover data from a nearly-dead HD. e.g. The HD spins and makes clicking noises. What I'd like to do is to find out how I can extract data from it....

"nobody" wrote in message ... Hi All, I'm having problems with the reliability of my home a/c power. What's the best value in a low-end UPS or perhaps a home built unit? Any pointers appreciated..... Consider an APC Smart...

On 10/27/2020 6:55 PM, skybuck2000 wrote: Did you know there is a "space company" in wuhan ?! Wow, now with this chinese space race and also spacex the possibility of bringing back a dangerous virus from space attached to some kind of space device is pretty real. If corona virus did...

My ECS Z77H2-A3 V1.2 motherboard with an I5-2500K processor worked fine for years, then started having occasional problems when turned on, it would not post occasionally. The problem got more frequent over months, until it finally is next to impossible to get it to post. When it does post, it...

I played with this a lot a couple years ago. I finally gave up when I started getting crashes on systems that had worked fine for many months. I found that the 771 to 775 stickers seemed to fail after long usage. The system would start crashing, more and more over time. I finally figured out...

I use my 4TB older WDMyCloud drive as network storage. It works great on my Win 7, XP, Vista PC's, but I cannot get it to work reliably on the 2 8.1 PC's I have here. It shows up as a "Storage" device when Windows File Explorer is brought up and "Network" clicked, and accesses the WDMyCloud's...

In experimenting with overclocking a new system, I've noticed that the CPU temperature displayed varies very quickly with load. Running orthos gets the temp (displayed by PC Probe II) up to 129F within a few minutes. Stopping orthos results in the temp dropping within seconds to less than 100F....

What processors can I use on this board ( Rev 1)? I DL'd the cpu list from Epox and it looks like I can use any Athlon with a 333 FSB. Also will the Semprons just drop in and work? The cpu list from Epox says it won't. Also I have a Celeron 2.7 ghz chip. Would I be better off just getting a mb for...

I have an existing system with a Pentium D 805 processor and an Intel D101GGC microATX motherboard. I like the system and the compact microATX box it is in, but I'd like to boost performance if it isn't too expensive. Thus I am looking for a replacement microATX board and processor (and it...

I'm looking for suggestions of a microATX motherboard for use with a Core 2 Quad Q6600. Going with Intel would seem to suggest an Intel DG33TL, but what would be better alternatives? -- Bob

I have an APC ES-500 backup battery on a newish homebuilt PC with 19" CRT display, 4 harddrives, and AMD dual-core CPU--not to mention the DSL modem, wireless router, and powered USB hub. As you can imagine on power failure--which rarely happens for real--I get a minute or two of battery life and...

I recently built a PC, my first one: - AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core 4200+; stock heatsink and fan - ABIT NF-M2 nView mobo - No video card, using onboard video - NZXT LEXA-NP case (Three 120mm fans, two blowing in, one blowing out) - 2GB DDR2 800MHz Super Talent T800UX2GC4 memory (no ECC, running...

In December I built a PC and installed an OEM Windows XP Pro x64 OS from Newegg. It included a "free" upgrade to Vista. In January I filled out the proper websites and forms and sent things off. The upgrade people, ModusLink (https://upgradeweb.moduslink.com/Vista/), seem to have any number of...