I'm wondering whether its better to have the chassis fan blowing air into the case or out from the back of the machine - there's no other inlets to the case since its a bog standard Tiny ATX case. I'm not thinking of upgrading the case or cutting holes in it, before any of you suggest that idea....

Hallo, bij een ACER LCD scherm zag ik de volgende spec.: Input signal a.. Digital (DVI/D) AV (S-video/Composite analog) Is het juist dat ik dergelijk scherm kan aansluiten op bijv. een DVD?

Hi all. A friend of mine would like to built his own new machine. Mostly for gaming. AMD or Pentium ?? He would like a P4 about 2.0. What mobo should he get? Must be 8*AGP .I built my own AMD with a FIC13 mobo, but i dont know all that much about Pentium. And prob about 2gig of at least PC2100...

Hi, want to do bios update with the ax6bc rev2.2 mboard. D/l latest bios ax6bc259. Run it from dos and the following error appears: Message: fail due to emm386 or qemm! Tried previous bios ver ax6bc258. Same message. What's going on?

what hardware do i need to start file and print sharing network i got a pc with an ethernet card which is connected to a dsl router with four hubs, and a laptop with internal ethernet, mac miniport bridge and iee1394 adapter i can send files to laptop via desktop but not vice versa. it keeps...

Hi there, I was recently searching on the web for a diagnostic utilities package and cam across one review on cnet. It was claimed that this bootable cd had pretty much every utility a test technician would want and is commonly used by repair companies to test machines. I wanted to get a copy but...

I'm debating to use either a 400 watt or 500 watt power supply for my Athlon xp system. This is a name brand, amd aproved power supply. I know the 400 watt is enough power for my system, but I was wondering if I were to buy the 500 watt power supply instead would it drain my electricity than the...

I have a P3 800 Mhz. with 384 MB Ram, and a 30GB Hard disk (donno which rpm) running on Windows 98' with an 8MB VGA card .I have several questions: 1) How can I check the RPM of my Hard Disk 2) For multi-tasking which is better: more ram / more hard disk space / higher rpm for hard disk/ faster...

Hi, I've just removed my Cyberdrive CD-RW drive & replaced it with a pioneer DVR-106D (multi CD / DVD writer), the drive works fine and I've successfully backed up a DVD (DVD X Copy) & written data files to CD using Windows XP. Nero 5.5.5.6, however, doesn't seem to see the drive as a CD burner &...

On Sun, 23 Nov 2003 12:54:45 +0100, "Marcel Hartgers" wrote: Hi, My pc (AMD 1.4 G Windows XP prof 512 Mb) is 1 year old. The last month or so it freezes totally after the first cold start. After a few hard reboots, when the system warms up, it goes well for a period of...

What is the best way to set your case fans (3-4 fans) all in or blowing out or somewhere in between

On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 15:42:27 +0000, Ewan Sinclair wrote: You would be trying to power up the device way after the hardware detection phase of Windows bootup sequence and way past when any driver for it would load and detect the device. How easy would it be to fake the presence of the...

I'm trying to find some info on the Power Man Model FSP145-61GW ATX power supply. Designed for a M5SAA mobo. Dimensions are 6"W x 4 1/2"D x 3 1/2"H. Fits in a Protek Model S-7 case. There's no power at all when switched on. Even tried shorting black & green wires per...

Anyone know if you can buy a USB to PS/2 converter? I need to convert a USB keyboard to a PS/2 so that I can use it with a KVM switch. Thanks for any advice.

Yesterday I bought a brand new Sharp LCD monitor. Today, I accidentally sneezed and now there is a big smudge on the monitor where I wiped it off (sorry for sounding disgusting, but there is a big smudge) I need to know how to get rid of this smudge, it is rather annoying as it was brand new...

hey, I'm experiencing weird crackling and static-ish noises with some games. Most popular games like Quake III, Need For Speed Hot Pursuit 2, FIFA 2003 etc sound okay, as do MP3s and general Windows sound events. But a few games, Pacific Warriors 2, V-Rally 3 (the demo), etc are giving me...

Hello, I have in my computer a CD-RW and a DVD-RW ( this as master ). Before that i had a CD-RW and a CD-Drive only (this was as master ). My problem is that for both situations or even if I only put one drive ( let´s say the DVD-RW for example ) at some stage my system stops reconizind the...

hello ppl, I have a compaq presario 1245 laptop (pentium2) and I used to be able to enter the euro sign by pressing the ctrl, alt and "5" keys at once, but now it doesn't work anymore. Any ideas on how to solve this or what the prblem might be? I am using windows ME. thanks in advance!

I have just found this group today and I would like to ask if anybody has any experience/opinions of a manufacturer named Tevion. It's just that Aldi are selling a 15" TFT monitor for £170 next week and I am interested. I have 'done a Google' but most of the sites it brings up are German and I...

On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 02:05:36 +0000, sdeyore wrote: Building an Intel D865PERL w/P4@3Ghz. When do i update the BIOS? Before I install the os, using a bootable disk, downloaded from Intel site? When you are building a brand new system IMHO it is good practice to apply any BIOS updates prior to...