Hi all, I'm looking to get an inexpensive video card and found one with the GeForce4 MX440-8X Video Card, AGP 8X, 64MB DDR at a local store. I don't play any video games, so frame rate and such are not important, but I need sharp text and graphic. How are the quality of the text and graphic on...

Sweetsafter putting a barebones computer together all works except the floppy drive, the light stays on and it will not respond to any commands. am running windows xp and it reports that the device is running properly. Any Ideas?

Any of you video card experts consider this a good deal for someone not looking for the bleeding edge? GeForce4 Ti4600 for $145 http://www.compgeeks.com/details.asp?invtid=G4TI4600-TD8X&sourceid=qDTeP8TgxiCdAkoYxXA7

I'm thinking of building my own PC. I've been researching cases and motherboards, and I think the Antec Plus660AMG case and either the Intel D875PBZ or Ansus P4C800 boards meet my needs. However, looking at the pictures of these components on various web sites, it does not appear the boards match...

Hi, can anyone help please. I have a 3 year old Compaq TFT5000 flat panel monitor. The monitor now appears not to be working as the PC comes on but there is no picture. There is an amber light on the monitor and there is faint image every time you turn it on or off. But the amber light remains...

A previous posting showing the same problem however the final solution was not given which I would be very grateful if this could be supplied - I hope it is ok to request the solution like this as any help would be gratefully received! "Memory access violation in module kernel32 @ xxxx:xxxxx" (NB:...

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Hi there I've just splashed out on a lovely new Matrox Millenium P650 AGP video card that won't work with the computer I've just built. Basically it appears not to have enough power to boot up. Is this more likely to be my PSU or my motherboard and its ability to deliver power to the AGP slot?...

My system when it loads the operating system, after everything loads it locks up. I've wiped the hard drive clean and reloaded everything twice, no change. I've tried a different hard drive (with a different OS), video card, and checked every memory module in each socket, and still no change. I...

my monitor has been flickering for quite awhile now. Does it have to be the monitor thats going or could it be the video card? It's flickering and sort of changing color from its normal brightness to bland/dark/greenish. Almost like a dull black and white. Sometimes it will stay that way for a...

i'm thinking of adding a SATA to my setup of 2xATA/133 drives of 40 and 80 i guess I want to have the SATA as the boot as it should be the faster of the lot - but i'm not too sure of the background of SATA is it true you cant view the contents unless you use some special driver or something? so...

Money is not an issue, i got myself a Mitsubishi 2070SB 22" monitor today and it rocks! Now i want to ensure the purity of the video signal from my graphics card to the monitor, i am looking for any links to sites that people might recomend. Thanks in advance.

Hi! I got an acer aspire laptop, I have just brougt a new CPU to replace the old one, but, once I have sobstituted the old one, I've no idea on how to unlock the Socket of the cpu to insert the new one. Someone can help me? there is only an "open" and "close" mark on the ZIF socket but really...

I'm reinstalling XP to see if I can figure out why I get these lockups. Does anyone know of a PC Health/Monitor package that I can install that might give me some hints as to what piece of hardware is barfing? Thanks BLink Brian Link in St. Paul ---------------------- "Just because we have...

I've posted this info. on my web page, in case this message comes out poorly formatted, it can be viewed there (http://home.cwru.edu/~mel/computer/computer.htm). Thanks for reading! I am building my 1st computer. I want to use components reliable and affordable, I'm not necessarily interested in...

I've been using a Microsoft Intellimouse Optical for a couple years and just outta the blue the other night the mouse starts working hit and miss. I attempted a re-boot, it gives me the screen where I select re-start and after a few seconds I get a box saying point32.exe will not close...

¤jº~¥Á±Ú wrote: If running Win98 or Win2000 with a very old MB, which only handles no more than 8g HD, and partition no more than 2g. How to deal with a new large HD of 20g? BIOS upgrade not an option? Most hard drive manufacturers make something called drive overlay software that you can...

I've got two computers built with the Antec "Performance Plus" Case . It's a great case, but I recently realized that these two computers are pretty loud. I was wondering if there are any relatively cheap and easy ways to make these computers quieter ("cheap" meaning costs less than buying...

I am considering upgrading my PC to use an Asus P4C800-E motherboard and 2G of Kingston KVR400X64C3AK21G dual channel DDR. Is anyone using this combination?

I just built a new computer and set the bios but I can't get pass the following information: A:\echo off NWCDEX.EXE Verson 2.81 CD-ROM file handler. Copyright (c) 1992, 1997 Caldera inc. All rights reserved. Drive X: Driver 'generic' unit 0 Drive Y: Driver "generic' unit 1 Command or filename not...