if anyone is curious I documented all the steps and components that I used to build a silent air cooled pc for games: http://silentgamingreview.com/components.htm Silent Gaming Review http://silentgamingreview.com

Is it really possible to "Quarantine" three system hard drives from a single hard drive when that hard drive is used for internet related purposes?(The idea is to keep them from from viruses, hacking, ect.). Thanks a lot. Darren Harris Staten Island, New York.

Would your hand get cancer in the long run? Wireless charging means there is energized EM radiation coming out of the pad! :) -- @~@ Remain silent! Drink, Blink, Stretch! Live long and prosper!! / v \ Simplicity is Beauty! /( _ )\ May the Force and farces be with you! ^ ^ (x86_64...

I've been trying to get win98 loaded on my bro's pc. This is where I'm at so far...After having trouble using a bootdisk and getting errors, I just hooked his HDD up to my PC running winxp. I formatted his HDD in FAT32. Not sure what to do now. How do I go about getting win98 loaded on his HDD...

Setup a my old computer for a friend (Intel PII-450, 128ram) and installed win xp, but am not happy with it as it seems too slow (I have used a friends celeron/128mb which is faster!) I therefore think that running win ME or 2000 is the best option but am not sure which one to go for. Can anyone...

"Why I Will Never Buy a Hard Drive Again" https://www.tomshardware.com/news/cheap-ssds-are-killing-hard_drives,37563.html "It’s been years since I was willing to work on any PC that boots from a mechanical hard drive. Once you get used to the snappy response times and speedier gameload times...

Opened up a friends computer and it is very badly covered in dust. Managed to get most out, but the video and audio cards are very dirty - the printed circuit board side is covered in dust - would it be safe to remove them and then use a household vacuum cleaner to clean the dirt off. Thanks Rob

I'm looking for a PC w/at least a 3.4Mhz processor, 1 Gig RAM, 128 Meg Vid. RAM and 80 gig hard drive. A 2nd 10k RPM 80 gig HD would be nice but I think it'd be cheaper to by that on aftermarket & install it. I'd also want a 17 or 18" LCD. I'm looking to spend $1400ish. The machine will be used...

Hello, My experiment with building a DreamPC has pretty much come to an end. I am now fed up with it's problems. The top 5 problems/killers a 1. Dust 2. Overheat

Ok, so I have decided I NEED to get a new PC. My Promise controller is not compatible with my ECS PVM4MM2 V5.0 MB (if someone knows a card that is, that would be good). I am leaning toward an Intel Based chipset either Asus, Abit or ? with several PCI slots. Right now, I am looking for a MB...

I have physical hard drive "C" with Win98 and physical hard drive "D" with WinXP in a dual boot setup. I want to injstall a new, larger physical hard drive "D". I have tried to follow the procedure for cloning a drive using Norton Ghost. I disconnected the cables from "C" and connected the new hard...

Hello Experts :-) These were the new components: 1 ASUS M4A88TD-V-EVO -USB3 2 Corsair 2 GB DDR3-1333 PC3-10600 CL9 Value Select PC Memory Module (VS2GB1333D3) 3 Corsair Memory 750W TX series ATX Power Supply 4 AMD Athlon II X2 255 - 3.1 GHz - AM3 Socket (ADX255OCGQBOX)

Unfortunately, my kid lost his boot disk recently and I had to reimage WinXP and now it's time to add all the freeware back. Silly me - in addition to no backups, we don't have a well defined list of freeware that was installed - so, we're starting from scratch, again. :( I wish I had kept a...

I threw out my Linux Pentium Two today, bought in 1996 or 1997, in the trash, after busting with a sledgehammer the Seagate 2 GB (yes two gbs!) HDs and the 48 MB RAM. I found out how the RAM was configured, after all these years: four sticks--I kid you not--of 16x2 and two sticks of 8x2 = 32 + 16...

Anybody know of a utility that syncs Windows clock and calendar, like through the Internet? Thanks.

Hello: We have a 15 year old son who we want to limit his computer activity after school, while he's home alone -- before we get home from work. We used to be able to just use a key to lock the keyboard with old 386 and 486 machines. But they don't make this like that anymore. Now we have two an...

If one has multiple drives, in a single system, and the normal boot(C) drive's power plug is disconnected, will the other(D) drive automatically become the boot drive if it also has an operating system installed? Are there any short or long term negative effects to switching between boot drives...

Thinking of using on an old 1998 laptop PC that presently has a Pentium II, with a built in generic Dell modem, USB mouse, 512k RAM (!), DVD/CD, running Windows XP fine now (very slow), some distro of Linux. In another thread I got into a debate about what's the best distro for a simple new Acer...

Hello, After using the mouse for a while I get these sweat spots on my table. Other people get sweat spots on their mouse mat. Very digusting annoying stuff. So the idea is to:

....almost have my 1st full machine finished. ...trying to decide on whether to put in a floppy drive. I can easily foresee needing the bay that a floppy would occupy for a harddrive instead (removable tray, etc.). From what I gather, the only likely thing that I would need a floppy for would be to...