Background: A co-worker came to me about a month ago and asked, "I have this small, embedded PC with only three slots which are already full but I need an interrupt from an external signal. What can I do?" "No problem," said I, "you can use the printer port's interrupt." "But I don't know how to...

Terry Shannon recently did an interview about the future directions of OpenVMS. HP strongly denies they will ever port their OpenVMS operating system over to x86 extensions (AMD64, EM64T) from Itanium. Of course, just a few months ago, they were strongly denying that they would ever use...

Ed wrote : finding out the real performance benefit is extremely small - if it exists at all. I really like this -3% (that's minus) performance increase :) http://www.anandtech.com/chipsets/showdoc.html?i=2088 thats not the way to view it, try :

Have an Abit An7. It gets to the First Abit Screen, but keyboard and mouse are unresponsive. Have error code of A.0. or 0.A. Anybody help?

"Grumble" wrote in message ... In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips, R420 wrote: Grumble wrote... In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips, R420 wrote: Xenon is powered by a 3.5+ GHz IBM PowerPC processor R420,

Pozdrawiam, wassup mate? Remember the thread recently about GameCube games impossible to pirate, because the "mini dvd's are burned backwards" and you need a "special custom hardware" for printing the discs? Take a quick look at www.suprnova.org games-GC section. Download any game image you...

Intel "unveils" first workstation EMT64 on Monday: http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/06/22/HNintelnocona_1.html Is this chip going to be usable with Grantsdale / Alderwood / LGA-775? In other words, if I buy a Grantsdale system, is there any chance Intel will release an EMT64-enabled CPU that...

AMD has a PDF available explaining how Microsoft will allow existing 32-bit apps to be able to access the full 4GB of memory for user space. This is an upgrade of Microsoft's existing 3GB-aware Windows modifications, which itself was an upgrade from the 2GB standard Windows image. This is...

Hi, I have a problem with a Dialogic board "DM/IP301-1e1-PCI". I installed that board in a Piv 1.6Ghz Mainboard D845WN and I can't do it starts. The board's power requirements are 22.5W @ 5V, and using PC Wizard I see that the PCI slot used by the Dialogic board has this description: "In Use...

Hi, I have a problem with a Dialogic board "DM/IP301-1e1-PCI". I installed that board in a Piv 1.6Ghz Mainboard D845WN and I can't do it starts. The board's power requirements are 22.5W @ 5V, and using PC Wizard I see that the PCI slot used by the Dialogic board has this description: "In Use...

http://www.3dchips.net/content/story.php?id=3927 No information on any BIOS update from my motherboard manufacturer (ASUS) yet.

A lawsuit that AMD brought forward requesting that certain Intel documents be released to the EU in an ongoing anti-trust investigation has been cleared by the US Supreme Court: http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3371471 Yousuf Khan

I made the stupid mistake of purchasing a new P4 2.8 ghz CPU without noticing that it was a P4 "prescott" CPU and my mainboard will only accept a P4 "northwood" CPU. I put the CPU in the board before noticing this dumb error on my part, and of course the system did not boot up. Is the CPU now...

AMD introduced 4 new Athlon 64 and FX models. However each one seems to be designed for three different types of sockets. Athlon 64 3500+ and 3800+ are designed for the Socket 939, while Athlon 64 3700+ is designed for Socket 754. Meanwhile are now two FX-53 models, the older one designed for...

Guys, I have 2 Operating Systems on my computer : First is Windows 2000 Corporate SP4. Second is Windows XP SP1. I installed on each 4in1 drivers (VIAHyperion4in1451v.exe) When I copy a big file (about 100 Mbytes) from the DVD player to one of my HDD here are the problems : - With Windows 2000,...

Or will it just be Prescott from now on that get faster?

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1738&e=1&u=/zd/20040617/tc_zd/129827 Sounds like a familiar story, originally Centrinos had problems with their wi-fi too. Actually now that they have gotten their Centrinos working, why wouldn't Intel just adapt their Centrino Wi-Fi to be used on...

I want to upgrade my soundmax driver but I have a no name brand computer and I don't know what driver to install. I am running 98SE (with all the critical updates) Celestron 450Mhz. I see that there are a lot of versions like 5.12.01.????, will any of these work? I went to the soundmax site and...

In article mWB9c.103$Me.96@newsfe1-win, you say... There is a benefit to P4-Celerons however: o Upgradeable -- socket-478 allows plug-in P4-3.4-800-fsb someday I've read all the articles in this thread and they've left me thinking I may have made a big mistake with a recent purchase; i.e.,...

Anyone know? I'd like to buy one when it gets down to $100 (which is still quite a lot for a CPU, but whaddaya gonna do?). Tony