I see computer mice (is that the plural?) being sold as optical, or laser. Is there a difference? Does laser mean it's wireless? I have an optical mouse, but my new desk's surface gives it hell. I had to cut out a cardboard box, and tape it to my desktop to use the mouse, but this looks ugly, and a...

I have to remove an Athlon XP CPU from my Abit motherboard in order to send the motherboard back to Abit for warranty replacement. To remove the CPU, I will have to remove the heatsink/fan that came with the CPU. There is a thermal pad on the bottom surface of the heatsink. When I reinstall the...

COmputer hangs at "DMI Pool Data Verification" before OS is initialized. After 5 - 8 resets, it offers to open in safe mode. Clicking "normal" gives an ok boot. I would like to fix this DMI Pool hang before upgrading from Win98 to WinXP. :\

I recently purchased an ATI X1600 Pro AGP, a video card with dual outputs (one VGA and one DVI with VGA adapter). I had casually asked about this before and was told that the secondary monitor does show artifacts after entering a full-screen game, like all my prior experience with using two NVIDIA...

I'm going to be building a new PC from scratch this weekend or so. I am planning on buying an AMD Opteron 165 with an Asus A8N-SLI motherboard. I have never overclocked a cpu, memory, or gpu. I would like advice on anything and everything anyone would happen to know about. Is the A8N-SLI a good...

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I have an ECS nForce3 v. 1.0A mobo with BIOS 1.0F (Sept. 2005) and am having trouble getting Kingston PC3200 ValueRAM to work reliably at the default BIOS settings. If the 1T/2T parameter (burst mode timing? The manual doesn't say) is set to 1T, this memory will fail diagnostics, unless the...

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Hi, My Pc recently stopped working one morning. The LCD monitor displayed the message no video input. I checked all connections - all ok. I've replaced monitor - Same thing happened I've taken graphics card to shop to check - they said it was fine. (however I did no see this for myself) I have...

I have an ECS nForce3 v. 1.0A mobo with BIOS 1.0F (Sept. 2005) and am having trouble getting Kingston PC3200 ValueRAM to work reliably at the default BIOS settings. If the 1T/2T parameter (burst mode timing? The manual doesn't say) is set to 1T, this memory will fail diagnostics, unless the...

I have a 40GB Seagate ATA100 HDD on my primary IDE port. A DVDRW drive on the secondary IDE port. I'm wanting to add a second HDD as a Win98SE OS boot drive for older games that don't work under WinXP. This HDD is ATA66. Should I add it to my primary IDE, or to the secondary IDE? Not sure if it...

A friend of mine is really broke, but was able to recycle/borrow/scrounge some parts to build a pretty decent PIII dual-proc. system with a rather high-end video card (for it's day) to be used mostly for Internet use (!). I've verified everything is compatible, no missing pieces, and I'll help...

I am looking to get some Corsair DDR PC3200 for an ASUS A8N-SLI Premium mobo, but I want to get the 1GB RAM that has the metal cooling strips on the side of the memory chips. I have such Corsair ram in my current system (2x512), but I can not find these 1GB chips anywhere. Can anybody help?

HI everyone, I was wondering if someone couldhelp me out. My computer lost its display a couple of days ago, the monitor itself when not connected to the pc comes on with the display change features, so I think it is good. I have two kingston 512 chips that are less than a year old. The MB is a...

Hi There, First post for me. I will be building a computer using old systems. I will build it at a non-profit computer recycling/donation center in Portland Oregon (www.freegeek.org). There are about 200 used systems that I can choose from. The used systems are all ATX with Pentium 3s. The...

I replaced my motherboard and everything Is fine but my monitor does not detect my PC. So I cant even get to my bios. This would be my third socket A motherboard I install. And this Is the first time this happends to me. I dont see a connection on the motherboard for my monitor. I have it connected...

I am having trouble setting up my dual monitors. Monitor # 1 is a 17" CRT driven by an nVidea PCI card. Monitor # 2 is a Sony 65" rear projection TV driven by an ATI 9800 pro. I have been trying to use UltraMon but it does not seem to work for what I am trying to do. Here is what I am trying to...

A friend has got four x 3.06 GHz Xeons. We hope to build a couple of PCs with these (one for each of us, not to sell). We have bought from eBay a pair of Supermicro X5DPL-iGM dual Xeon motherboards, but need to find an extended ATX case. Any suggestions for what one to get? We do care about 1)...

How do I figure out what the beep codes mean on my Toshiba P25-S670? It's one long and two short. I called a "premium service provider" and they say I have to bring it in. I looked through all the forums and such, and they only talk about a Tecra or some such, not this model. I already tried...