I am looking to upgrade my system, which I use mainly for music-making, to one that will also let me watch videos (DVD and DivX). I would also like to spend as little as possible. My current system is: Some VIA AT motherboard AMD K6-2 350MHz CPU 192 MB SDRAM AGP Port:

Oh, it's free (for personal use) too. "Mitchua" wrote in message ... Just get pretty much any Linux distro (such as Mandrake) and start fooling around. They pretty much all come with Apache2 (the server...

"Jenny" wrote in message ... I changed out a cd burner on a Dell 4400 for the cd-rom drive. It is a cheap Cyntidyne from Staples ($60 with $40 rebate) 52x24x52x on a WinME. Now every time Dell starts, it says it can find...

I have started doing video and DVD authoring and found it was time for a new system.... I am having a system custom built with the following: Kingwin KT-424 case in black GigaByte® GA-8KNXP 800MHz FSB Motherboard 3GHz Pentium® 4 Processor with 800MHz FSB 2 gigabytes of Mushkins Black DDR400...

Steve wrote: I'll be ordering a system with the ATI All-in-Wonder 9000 Pro (http://www.ati.com/products/radeon9000/aiw9000pro/index.html). I like the card because it is relatively cheap, has on screen TV viewing capability, and enough memory (64 MB) to drive the somewhat low-fi games I...

Hey guys, thanks for all the great inputs on another thread I posted. So far, I'm still looking at ATI cards, nVidia's high-end workstation cards look great but price is too steep for me, besides, I will have to buy a capture card to work with my VCR. As for ATI, I'm interested in the...

I know this is a little off topic, but i couldnt find another newsgroup that was on networking. i need 50ft of CAT5e cable. whats the difference between patch and UTP? what do need for a basic cable router to pc network? thanks!

"TAB" wrote in message ... If I have an older motherboard that only has a 2x-4x agp slot, what will happen if I use the GeForce 4 Ti 4200-8X. Will it scale to the 4x slot? Or will it not work at all or be buggy? ...

Hi! I am building a transportable pc and I am trying to lower the height of the case by half. I am considering replacing the standard p/supply with a notebook p/supply a/c adapter. Is it workable? What about the connectors? do i need to do any modifications or get any convertors? What about video...

Update: I think I'm going w/ Matrox Millennium P650 card, 64MB is little short to my liking, but considering its 2D capabilities and 8x AGP support, I can't complain too much. Does it work well with GA-8knxp? unbekannt wrote...

Hi there I have an issue that is driving me insane! I've just bought a new DVD/CDR/CDRW combo drive for my W2K PC. It appeared to physically install ok, and all leads are (I assume) correctly in place. I have followed the manfacturers advice and set the new drive to "master" and the existing CDR...

I have recently installed a new MB and CPU (Athlon XP2500 and Asus A7N8X-X The computer is running fine except that when I look up System Info or on boot up, my CPU is displayed as XP 1.1 Ghz. Have I done something wrong on install that my CPU is running slower? Thanks....Ed

Which is best when buying hardware - retail box or OEM (what does this mean). Sorry for daft question, but it just had to asked!! Paul D, Worcestershire, UK The Sunshine County P3 700mHz MS-6178 256MB RAM PC100 Maxtor 30Gb HDD

Hey guys, I'm new here, but I would like some people's advice. I am going to build my own custom desktop, and I would like some advice/suggestions. Here is the list of things I've decided on. Any help is appretiated :P -Surge Protector--------------------------------------------------------- ...

Hi, I have a lengend qdi 440BX motherboard which is need of memory upgrading I tried installing 512Mb but it only swaw 256Mb when I installed 256 is saw 128Mb any idease ? Regards Matt

Hello, The last time I have built a PC was all the way back in last century, 1997 to be exact, and after a short and very brief surfing on the web, I have come to realize there had been soooo much change in the PC industry since then, which actually wasn't that much of surprise. I am just...

"zalzon" wrote in message ... Two questions : 1) Which motherboard is better? I got to choose between the two for my Athlon XP 2400. a) ASRock K7VT2 MB http://www.asrockamerica.com/Products/K7VT2.htm

Can I put an ATX motherboard into a DELL Dimension XPS D233? It's a PII 233 DELL tower. Has anyone tried? Thanks

I added a Maxtor 6E030L0 to my PC and removed the old drive. I used MaxBlast to partition the drive because fdisk would not work after configuring the Phoenix BIOS drive to AUTO. The new drive is on its own IDE cable. My machine is now unstable and it sometimes gets the blue screen of death...

I'm planning on building a new P4 machine that will be upgradable for at least 3-4 years. This will be my 1st build, any insights will be greatly appreciated! Here's what I intend to use this baby for(I am no gamer, so gaming aspect will not be a consideration): Graphic/Video editing Web...