I'm going to attempt to put together a system that will use a mirroring application for backing up. The system will have three drives of equal size in the main case.(And if I go SCSI, three more in an external case will be used for less important data storage). The main three will all start out...

By April or May next year i will have enough saved up to buy all the bits and bobs for my next PC. Is it worth me going for a 64 bit cpu and associated motherboard, or stick with a 32 bit system? I will want my new PC for games for entertainment, and I also intend to learn 3D Studio Max for...

Hey my NEC floppy Drive is staying on all the time..... Any suggestions How to Fix this...... it is also not accessible either..... Can I correct this or is the Drive Shot???? I have a 1800+ AMD Athlon and 133Mhz DDR ram and a K7S5A MB version. 3.1 Is there a Bios Update to Correct this problem...

My dad has a shuttle based pc and my brother is trying to use the onboard firewire on it to edit some dv material. When he plugs the camera in it doesnt come up in xp with camera found, but does say DV IN on the Canon XM1. And of course Premiere Pro says the dv device is offline. Any ideas...

Hey. What's everybody's opinion on my splicing a couple of device power cables onto one of the lines that comes out of my 300-W power supply, so as to let me have up to 5-6 IDE devices (with added controller, of course; my power supply has only 4 + FDD). It'd look something like this (boy, I hope...

Just put a system together and now when I boot, it doesn't give me the post beep. I tried it without the hard drive, floppy, and cdrw connected and it beeped. As soon as i hooked up the other stuff, no beeps. Anyone have any ideas??? It's a christmas gift, so I have to get it running by Monday...

Agreed; these chips "ain't no great shake" compared to even a Duron if you are building new. But if you know about the "last gasp of the K6's / almostAthlons" ; these are choice - AMD K6-II+ 550MHz CPU $39.99 http://www.softwareandstuff.com/h.cpm.amdk62550.html AMD K6-III+ 450MHz CPU $59.99

wrote: Will this motherboard fit into this case below?? http://www.newegg.com/app/viewProductDesc.asp?DEPA=&sumit=Go&description=13%2D131%2D455&searchdepa=0 http://www.newegg.com/app/viewProductDesc.asp?DEPA=&sumit=Go&description=11%2D116%2D150&searchdepa=0 thank...

Hi: I have a Gigabyte 6VXE MBO (It's quite an old board, I think it was built in '99 or thereabouts). I am having some strange problems... when i turn it one, sometimes it gets to the POST and sometime not. What could possibly be the problem?

k7vta3 mobo has built in VIA VT1612A audio codec. I know how to install hardly failed before. This mobo I can't do it. I tried many drive including the website from manfucature. It never worked. Does anyone know about this?

I downloaded it for my via chipset (ABIT KD7-RAID) and it won't run. Gives an error about not opening files successfully, or something... And, YES, I did unload the Hardware Doctor before loading it. Any suggestions?

I posted here and a couple other forums about a Soyo motherboard and not being able to get it to accept memory in more than one DIMM. Finally gave up and did this instead: Gigabyte K8N Pro w/AMD64 3200+ 1 GB (2X512) Kingston HyperX CL2 PC3200 DDR 2 WD SATA Raptor HD Radeon 9800 Pro (OEM 128...

Trying to get this @$##@# thing working will not Except a WD Hardrive and I trued updating the Flash too regarding it..... this model will no except the Harddrive.... might it be a good Idea to use a Drive that you know it likes to Store the Updaters and flash stuff? Signed Frustrated

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I'm trying to trouble shoot a Compaq Presario 4560. Symptoms are when the power switch on the rear of the machine is switched on the Green Power LED lights up immediately and the Green HDD activity light stays 'solid' green for about 15 seconds and that's all that happens. There is no video what...

AMD Retail v OEM and warranties Some questions regarding AMD retail and oem chips. 1 If I buy oem from shop what happens after 30 days? (some sellers advertise 30 day warranty) after 30 days tough luck if cpu breaks, this illegal? 2 The price difference is very small between retail and oem so...

I just bought a 2nd hand computer real cheap. It has a (super 7?) FIC motherboard (PA-2013) supporting an AMD K6-2 500mhz CPU and 256megs SDRAM at 100mhz FSB speed. The usual periphials include a sound card, video card, modem, etc. It's running Win98SE. So far, it hasn't crashed on me yet. How...

Could someone point me in the direction of a website (with illustrations preferably) that can help me in building my first PC? Also, what's a good place to buy parts? Ebay? Newegg? Thanks.

Just built a computer for mom and swapped a couple of her 'old' 40 conductor ribbons as I didn't have the 80's with me. Does this hurt anything? Should I be sure to run all of one type of ribbon?.......thanks, ron