Hi, My sister wants me to build her a new system to replace her aging P2 350 system. Cost, of course, is a consideration. I have an eide hard drive, flopy, cd burner, and cdrom for it. She's gonna use here existing mouse, keyboard, broadband modem, and monitor. DVD isn't required. So what I'm...

Hi, Lately I've been fixing a lot of old P2's running win95 or 98. These are boxes used by children in their homes. I volunter to fix them when they stop booting, etc. They are gradually learning not to put tiddley winks and baseball cards in the floppy drives. I was wondering; could I use...

Hi, This is a hd from a HP laptop. It has personal data on it that hasn't been backed up. I'm going to try to backup the data and then return the hd to HP. The HD in question is faulty, but it still spins, so I may have a shot at it. A friend swapped the replacement from HP with this one, and...

Hi, At a local screwdriver shop I spoke with a guy who was editing video clips, and he wanted to know which CPU handeled that better. I told him AMD just because they cost less, so for the same amount of money that a P4 cost, you could buy a more powerful AMD chip. But, the more I thought about...

Hi, I put a nic card in my old P200 compaq tonight, with 64 megs of ram in it, and connected it to comcast broadband via my router with a cat5 cable. Then I set up an internet account and a mail account using outlook express. Then I updated win98 at Microsoft's website. Here's the funny thing I...

Hi, Here's the system: Asus K8V-X mobo AMD athlon 64 3000 cpu 256 DD400 ram This is a new build for my sister who constantly changers her mind! Anyway, the above is bought. Next case: She wants a tv turner in it.

Currently looking to upgrade a 1k Celeron system to a 2.6k Celeron. After the new MB/Processor is installed, the system would retain the following existing components; 1x 56k modem 1x nVidia Vanta 16 chipset AGP card 1x CDRW 1x DVD-ROM 1x 5400rpm HDD

My question is, my old 486 pc has an EPROM bios chip, and firmware.com do a replacement EEPROM chip on a daughterboard to make the computer Y2k compatible etc. Anyway, would it be possible to get a copy of the new flash bios, and have someone write it to an EPROM chip therefore doing away with the...

hey i`ve seen this LG TFT http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=158951 and it seems well spec'ed. question is, is it actually as good as it seems? i know the general rule of thumb where ya get what you pay for, but i`m looking for a pair of no-frills 19" TFT it's primarily...

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Hi.. I've got a dell 640m notebook.. I have 1 gb of memory.. I think that it's a bit slow when I'm starting 3 or 4 programs at the same time.. (using windows xp) I've been told that it possible is the hard drive that is to slow -

hi.. can I use a sapphire x1650 pro agp graphic card in my k7s41 mainboard - I do not know wheater the voltage is correct or not? Peter

J L Williams wrote: Hello folks, I'm new here. I've just come looking for a group like this. I'm thinking of building a new computer for my wife. Where might I get most help to decide how to do this myself? I've seen a couple of sites that look good......are there any that you'd all...

Terry Wilson wrote: I'm building a PC for my sister's kid and would appreciate any advice. Actually, I'd like him to assist in building, as I am recruiting future members! PC to be used for gaming and voice recognition, with an eye towards stability and longevity. Case - newegg

Lord Gazwad of Grantham wrote: A little while back I had my first ever hard drive failure. Well, that's not strictly true, I RMA'd a drive once which was acting funny; Another one failed but it was borrowed for troubleshooting, the trouble was it was already ****ed so I was no better...

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How did you manage to get 521MB RAM?? I would always recommend lots of ram for what your doing, the more the better really. "Bill" wrote in message ... Use XP Pro, AMD Athlon XP 2100CPU and 521MB of DDR RAM. Do a little home...

I installed a PCI card which upgraded my 1.1 port to a 2.0 port. It was working for awhile - but now seems to have reverted to a 1.1 speed. Is there a way (utility maybe?) to clock the transfer speed of my 2.0 USB ports? Thanks..........