My son just bought an ATI 9800 128MB video card (non pro version). His PC specs: (Homebuilt) WinXP Pro (no service pack) P4 1.9 512 RDRAM (800Mhz) 30GB Maxtor IDE 5400 ASUS P4T-E Mobo

I was thinking of purchasing a Clevo Barebones system on Ebay and was just wondering would the Hard Drive, Ram, and Dvd-Rom from my gateway laptop be usable in the Clevo system or are they gateway only pieces??? -- *********************End Transmission******************************** Send all...

anthonyi wrote: Hi, I'm using the heatsink portion of a Globalwin CBK II 58 with a quiet YS-Tech 80mm fan through an 80mm-60mm adapter. If I change the heatsink to something larger, like an SK7, and dispense with the adapter...is there likely to be a beneficial effect on my ...

In a related thread "CPU Failure?? - Using a K7t266 Pro2-RU M'board" Ive detailed some HW problem I'm having. May have to replace CPU and Motherboard. My biggest concern with doing this is the potential for me then to have to totally rebuild my XP Pro based software setup (horrible and very...

I want to know if there is a heatsink with my AMD K6 2 ( 500 Mhz) cpu? The guy who replaced my motherboard isnt sure himself!! I think he probably doesnt know what a heatsink is. The problem is the hardware monitor in my BIOS is giving temps upto 65 Celcius. I dont use my pc for more than an...

I'd be grateful for some advice as to the quality of the subject hardware. I'd never heard of them until my local PC supplier recomended them to me. Many thanks Paul B.

I recently put in a new motherboard, Chaintech Apogee Deluxe 7VJL which has an on-board LAN chip VIA6103 10/100Mbps or 1/10Mbps Home PNA 2.0. The problem is, I can't get the LAN connection to work. If I enable it in setup it is recognised by "New Hardware" (Windows 98SE)and I load the drivers, but...

PNP os installed to 'NO' in the CMOS? reset configuration data to 'enable' , your booting order is still set to the CD rom 1st so its going there FIRST change the order back to HDD 1st or remove the disk. "BruceM" wrote in message ... ...

My friends profit, from my hobby. When I upgrade, they get my old ****. And my old ****, is never really too old... Hehe. - Hugo Drax stood up at show-n-tell, in , and said: I actually give them away to family, My brother is passing by and is

What's the difference, if any, in having the BIOS configure PnP devices, or letting the OS configure them? Or, is this purely subjective? I was in my bios and happened to notice I had another choice if the OS did not feature/support PnP. Just curious. Thanks, -- Curt.

The morons on Tech TV were ridiculing floppy drives. Ha! For a lousy $10 you can: *Easily update your BIOS *Easily update the firmware on your optical drives *Clone a HDD with Ghost AND a lot of people don't want to spent $100 for WinXP (or steal it) so a

why do you need todo this? i have ghosted machines after clicking no. rob. "Ant" wrote in message ... Hi. I'd like to know how to force Norton Ghost to "identify" my new Hard Drive. The Ghost "identify hard drives"...

I am looking for an inexpencive motherboard combo for my daughter and have checked some sites out with no luck. Find mb's with no cpu or cpu's with no mb, some combos which have such no names that i'm not even tempted... Anyone with suggections would be appreciated. I have tower, cd, monitor,...

Don't use Shuttle MBs... Use Asus, Soyo or any other main brand.... Colin Phillips wrote: Hi, I'm just getting ready to buy all the components to make my new PC. I've swapped out pretty much everything in my past PC's except motherboards and CPUs, but I've never built one up from the...

would blue tooth work if i was upstairs on my laptop and my main p.c was downstairs. would they comunicate ? or does the dongle have to have line of sight...ie can it go through walls?

So I finally got myself a 64 MB USB flash drive. It's a cute lil toy. Can somebody please tell me why I freakin' need this thing? ;)

On my system here, I double clicked to play a movie and the mouse pointer suddenly reverted back to its default, then the entire display froze. Not even the mouse would move. Then after a few seconds, the screen went black and came back stating there had been a device failure. Thing is, I was...

So i recently installed the new Intel INF update and in device manager i clicked on each tab under USB device to see if Windows would find something better or leave the versions as is. To my horrow when i click on update driver it reverted back to older drivers that come shipped with SP1? Why...

I am trying to make up my mind on the Enermax CS-5107 tower and the Antec Plus 1080 AMG. Part of my dilemma is that the Antec comes with a 430w power supply at all the locations I've gone to, and I can't find a place to buy the Enermax CS-5107 Tower, which does come with two front USB...

Hi, I'm after some info please................. I have 2 networked Compaq Prosignia 300/330 desktop PC's. The first has a 1997-1998 66mhz 2 Dimm model motherboard currently running a celeron 300/66 slot 1 cpu. The second has a 1998-1999 100mhz 2 Dimm model motherboard currently