ASUS used to use AWARD bios before the AWARD/Phonix merger. Now, they seem to switch back and forth. Along the AWARD CMOS setup, the default was always LBA. Now, it is very strange. On my A7N8X, it is LARGE when I select the Auto. On my P4PE, it is LBA when I select the Auto. LBA used to...

(Peter) wrote in message ... I have a Dell Dimension 4100 PC running WindowsXP Professional ver. 2002 SP-1; the BIOS version is A10. Everything works fine, except beginning a day or so ago, every time I boot, the process...

guy2003 wrote: I recently upgraded my old Pentium II 450 machine from NT4 to XP Pro. I don't seem to be able to get rid of that annoying "Limited Virtual Memory, etc." indication at log on. According to Q316528 from Microsoft, I may need to download the Intel Application Accelerator. ...

I have a 440BX with Win XP Pro on it, and I've never seen the type of errors you are talking about. If you get a brand new drive, make sure you use it as your main drive because it's going to be way faster than your old drive. Use Norton Ghost's DiskToDisk option to make a clone copy of the old...

If you're talking Pentium 4, try http://www.centrix-intl.com/ and do a search for "retention kit" ... only $5. On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 03:24:35 GMT, wrote: The retention module (that rectangle plastic thing) is broken. My mobo is Gigabyte 8IEXP. Is there a way I can get a...

While assembling my PC with an Intel D845GEBV2, I put a 512 MB RAM stick in bank 1 and left bank 0 empty since I had plugged in the AGP card first and the AGP retention mechanism was occuluding memory bank 0. Though everything seems to be working fine, I wonder if there are any performance issues...

It seems that they started selling it in Asia. Is Iwill DK8S selling here in the US? It appears only MSI Master-F is selling among all the announced motherboards for Opteron 2xx series CPU's. Beside MSI, is anybody really selling Opteron boards in the US? Thanks.

I have a broken Compaq Pressario 716EA with an AMD Duron 'Mobile' 1200. I have reason to believe the cpu is causing the trouble. To be sure I want to check by swaping the cpu with a working one, but I only have a common Duron(DHD1000AMT1B) and an Athlon (A1400AMS3C) avaible. I didn't find enough...

I bring to this posting considerable humility. I've been very curious about the Japanese Earth Simulator vector processor, in particular the length of any given vector module. Today, an article on nanowires from the Hot Chips conference gave (or implied) some of this information. Question: am I...

This IS Inquirer so this must be taken with a large grain of salt, until and unless other more respectable websites confirm these things, but for now, here is what good 'ole Inq. is saying http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=11002 Big Blue to make NV36, NV40 chips TSMC to make ATI chips

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HP Pavilion 8765c Amd Athlon Thunderbird 900 mhz Microsoft Windows XP Version: 5.1.2600 Service Pack 1 bios - PhoenixBIOS 4.0 Release 6.0.G date: 03/27/00 (ptltd - 6040000) chipset - AMD 751 rev 37 (irongate) super i/o - VIA 686 rev 34 found at port 4h (vt82c686a) If you have a Hp solutions...

On 4 Aug 2003 15:33:58 -0700, (MB) wrote: Okay, my system melted down so now I am looking to replace the motherboard and CPU. I have decided to go the Athlon XP route. I have tentatively narrowed down the motherboard choices to the Chaintech 7NIL1 and Asus A7N8X (deluxe??)....

On Mon, 04 Aug 2003 14:17:08 GMT, "Felger Carbon" wrote: snip. Interesting papers, if you're interested in supercomputing and vector machines. The dollar amounts of the awards ($43.1 million to Cray) are given by

On Thu, 7 Aug 2003 13:13:38 +0530, "Sabyasachi Basu" sabya_01 AT hot mail DOTcom wrote: Both 98 and XP keep freezing constantly, sometimes even minutes after booting. I have installed the VIA 4-in-1 driver but things havent improved. Download memtest86 and check that your RAM are working...

On Thu, 7 Aug 2003 13:13:38 +0530, "Sabyasachi Basu" sabya_01 AT hot mail DOTcom wrote: I have just put together a PC with the following configuration: 1. U8668D-Z4 VIA P4 M266A + VT8235 Motherboard 2. ATI Radeon 7500 128MB Graphics card 3. 512 MB Simmtronics 266MHz DDR RAM 4. Seagate 80GB...

* Can anyone program a bios flash rom for me ? If so, I'd be exceedingly grateful. The task consists in flashing a motherboard bios into is prom. let me know !! thanks

Can I enable to use RAID 1 function on i865PE chipset motherboard with Celeron (Northwood-128) CPU ?? Can I use the RAID 1 function on Win2k Server ?? Thanks

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On 20 Aug 2003 10:47:51 -0700, (carsten r.) wrote: I'd like to extend my PC (DELL Dimension 8100) with new 512 MB RAM. Dell recommends a kit with two Kingston 256 MB Sticks (KTD-DM800/512). Could i use each "RDRAM PC800" module/stick (for example Samsung non-ECC...