I have found the utility CTSPD that reads the SPD chip on dimms to be useful. However it doesn't work with some motherboards, returning the 'chiset not found' error. Does anyone know of an alternative utility that can give a readout of the SPD eprom on a dimm? Tony

I recently picked up a circa 1996 all SCSI Micron Millennia Pro Plus in like new condition for $40. It was supposed to be a dual PPro 200 but when I got it home and opened it I was disappointed to find it only had a single PPro 200 256k processor installed, 32MB of memory and a Bus Logic SCSI card....

Hello, apologize upfront for a rather esoteric problem - I have an AMD 1.2 Tbird, and KT133a chipset motherboard. When I place my system in standby, a bit-setting in the host bridge is flipped which allows the cpu too cool. My cpu normally runs at about 45C even when Idle, however when in standby,...

I know that this is not quite the right forum for this question but I get the best responses here. I have an older Chaintech 7aia0 (66ATA) version with the KT133 chipset. Its supposed to support "out of the box" durons to 900mhz and athlons to 1200mhz. I have been running a duron 600 without...

Hi, I have an IBM 6275-66U PC that lost power during a BIOS recovery. Now the BIOS is corrupted - when the recovery dip switch is set, the floppy is accessed and there are 2 beeps - repeatedly. No video. Nothing happens without the recovery switch set. I do not have a layout of the...

BIOS Date: 03/23/99 BIOS Type: Award Modular BIOS v4.51PG BIOS ID: 03/23/1999-SiS-530-P5SS-ME0C OEM Sign-On: P5SS-ME Ver 1.3lC 03/23/1999 Chipset: SiS 530 rev 2 Superio: Winbond 877TF (use 87h) rev 0 found at port 3F0h OS: Win2000 CPU: AMD-K6 400 Mhz MAX: 400 Mhz BIOS ROM In...

I have a XP1800+ CPU, and the Asus A7V333 rev. 1.02 motherboard. I want to upgrade the CPU. I found in a ASUS web page, http://www.asus.com/support/cpusupport/cpusupport.aspx : CPU Since PCB Since BIOS Athlon XP 2200+(Model 8) 1.01 1006 Athlon XP 2400+(Model 8) ...

Wondering if it's possible to run a Barton XP 3200+ in the K7S5A motherboard? I know that the motherboard and chipset don't support the 200MHz DDR FSB of this chip, but would it be possible to run it underclocked to 133Mhz DDR FSB for a little while, until a suitable replacement motherboard is...

The combantants were the Intel compiler, the Gcc compiler, and the Portland Group compiler: http://www.digit-life.com/articles2/insidespeccpu/insidespeccpu2000-opteron2.html

The low-voltage version of Itanium 2 will be here on Monday, Sep 8th. Meant for workstations: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/61/32692.html

Hi I'm looking to build a leading edge PC and wondered how I can use a SCSI U320 disk system with a P4 3.2Ghz with 800mhz bus. All the motherboards I've seen don't support PCI-X when supporting P4's.... Anyone got ideas on a 'best of everything' PC system?

The following self-extracting Zip is a Powerpoint presentation: http://download.microsoft.com/download/c/f/1/cf1806ad-5a4f-4f7d-a5b2-07fdb59a7adb/WH03_TPA56.exe or, http://makeashorterlink.com/?H22F42BB5 Interesting Highlights: -native 64-bit apps have no access to legacy x87, MMX, or 3DNow

Looks like the AMD Opteron is quickly becoming the favoured chip for large supercomputing applications, only a few months after introduction. Their latest announcement involves Los Alamos National Lab in New Mexico, which will build two separate computing clusters from these chips, one called...

I'm currently running a PIII-1GHz with 512MB sdrams which I think is suffice for my needs that including slight gaming only and mostly surfing. Presently, I hesitating on my decision whether to upgrade my Creative GTS-2 32MB DDR gfx card to a direct x 9 compliant such as FX-5600ultra. The problem...

I need to get a 256 meg stick for the above mentioned laptop. I see these specs listed: 256MB LP 1.15" 144 Pin PC100 32x64 SDRAM (16x8 MBGA) SODIMM as being compatible. I'm uncertain about the 16x8 MBGA portion, would a module with these specs work: 256MB Low Profile 144 Pin PC100 32x64 CL2...

I give it up. Can someone hlp me? Not even Tomshardware can give me the benchmark I need. Thanks a lot, Christian.

Might be OT, but regardless, worth a shot... Noticed that no matter how I set my regional settings (to use, for example 9/4/03 or 9-4-03, or to change 6:00pm to 18:00, or to change the 18:00 to 18.00), the date/time stamp looks how I set it up, and is arrangable in chronical order, as it should...

Mention was made yesterday in conversation with a PC assembler about DDR "2" appearing on AGP cards in the near future - being the next "leading edge" in the RAM technology. Is this the QD-RAM or QDR-SD-RAM that some have mentioned over the past little while? Reference was to 4...

I got ahold of an Abit KD7A motherboard that can use PC2100 unbuffered RAM. I happened to have 2100 Registered ECC. Will it work? Please respond here, the email address doesn't work anymore. Thanks in advance.

I have searched for benchmarks on the celeron 2.7 ghz. Does anyone have some benchmarks to post or a link. I know the earlier celerons are not not very competitive, but what about the latest offerings? TIA