I am building a p.c and have inserted some known connections from the power pack to the motherboard, My questio, can connections from the powerunit go to any like pin on the motherboard, as there are more than one of each type of pin connector. I know the 4 pin power to the drives, are all the...

Hi , I am building a pc and am a bit stumped with the connection ends of the cabling inside the case.I have inserted some of the ones which I know go where. My question is, If there are more than one connection on the motherboard which are alike, is it possible to connect any like cable end...

Hi I was able to get a used external Seagate 4mm tape drive (STD6401LW) and I would appreciate some help with the configuration. I purchased a used AHA 2940UW to work with the drive. The tape does back up, but very slow and many soft write errors. Can one of you please tell me the correct settings...

I built my machine about 2 and a half years ago based around a Gigabyte GA-8S655FX-L motherboard (socket 478) with a P4 2.4 GHz processor. I am not an experienced techie and I have no sophisticated test equipment. It went wrong a few weeks ago and having considered several possibilities. I am...

All, I have about 2 large boxes (3.0 Cubic Feet Boxes) of floppies\diskettes various formats from 360K to 1.44MB Floppies. I have been into IBM PCs since IBM XTs roamed the earth as the main machines. I have a DVD burner and I would like to back these all up to DVD Media. I looked at the backup...

Fixing to purchase an AMD Socket939 CPU for the system I've been building. (I have a very limited budget, and it would be stupid to scrap the mainboard, & memory for a Socket AM2. Too long to return $85.00 mainboard, and $85.00 memory now) I see that the AMD 64 3800+ (2.4Ghz with 512KB L2) cost...

"Skybuck Flying" wrote in message news:... Hello, For some reason my card reader is not working. I have been having some problems with the power button of this CHIEFTEC case. When I try to turn on the power button it sometimes hangs a bit and I notice how the...

Hi , I have an project where in i need to share a USB mass Storage Device among two HOST PC's. The hosts would not use the Shared resource at the same time. So I planned to use 4 SPDT Swithes to switch the Storage device when ever required. When I did implemented this, I found that the Mass Storage...

Looking for some schematics of circuits that can decode MFM data stream to binary. Not looking for FDC chips. Thanks.

Hello, I have an old Compaq Presario 5000c which has a Duron 800 Mhz processor and 128 MB of RAM. Is it feasible to upgrade this computer? I was thinking of putting a new economy motherboard in it, (PC Chips (M810LMR-Ver7.0) Athlon/Duron/XP Ready SiS730S Chipset w/Audio/Lan/Video UDMA-133 Micro...

I have an Intel D975XBX Board with 2 SE Hard Drives which are set in the IDE mode, not RAID. My first HD has the OS and programs and Data and the second acts strictly as a back-up. I recently noticed that I keep "Loosing" the backup hard drive. If I shut down and restart, it comes back (at least...

Hi, I have had my self-assembled PC running for almost a year now with no problems. However yesterday I switched on and noticed vertical artifacts on the screen during the boot sequence, which remained when I got to the login screen in Windows XP. I rebooted a couple of times to see if the problem...

Hello everybody, Does anybody know where i can find a PD/CD Rom drive to read PANASONIC LM-R650A PD Cartridge, I have a project in this PD Cartridge but i can not read it. where can i find a PD/CD ROM bearing the PD mark? I live in Turkey, but i could not find it here. Any help will be highly...

Looking at UK dual core prices Intel seem to be much cheaper than AMD ? Novatech - http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/products/a561x1y0z1p0s0n0m0 Intel prices range from £85.67 to £318.41. AMD Seem to go from £199.50 to £436.34 Traditionaly Intel were allways more expensive so why the...

I'm the guy who asked about upgrading the Compaq a few days ago.. The reason I'm using it in the first place is that the computer I replaced with the Presario, stopped working. Like an idiot, thinking that I could test to see if it was the motherboard, I took the Athlon XP 2000 processor out of the...

http://forums.nvidia.com/lofiversion/index.php?t8171.html Several of us have reported data corruption with nForce 4 based motherboards. I'd like to share my experiences with you. I hope nVidia's experts read this forum and finally offer us the right solution. (9 very long pages of forums)

Hi, My friends computer keeps shutting down when she tries to boot it up, what happens is it starts to boot, but when it get to the windows screen it keeps shutting down. The strange thing is if she leaves it alone after around 15-20 mins it boots up properly. I don't think it is a virus as it...

Check out these 2 screen captures, from the same instance of CPU-Z: 14: http://tinyurl.com/fbafb 16: http://tinyurl.com/eq2lv The FSB keeps vacillating between 14 and 16 and the CPU speed gets recomputed every time. The BIOS clearly indicates a P4 3.2 w/HT and Soft Sandra indicates

Recently, i received many motherboards & power supplys. Their condition are unknown. They may be bad. I know that a bad motherbard could damage a CPU sometimes. Is there any way to test an unknown motherboard without frying the CPU? also, Is there any way to test an unknown power supply without...

We have a server with 4 PCI-X slots and are looking to buy a fax card for it. The card we found is uPCI (universal). Will the uPCI work in a PCI-X slot? Thanks.