Hi, A month or so ago, I built a PC with these components: - Antec Sontata case w/380 watt PS - SuperMicro P4SGA+ motherboard - Pentium 4 2.66 GHz 533 kHz FSB CPU - Zalman CPNS7000-AlCu CPU cooler - 1.5 GB of DDR266 memory - Two Maxtor 40 GB hard drives

Hi All, I've been given an ECS motherboard, P4S5A/DX. It has an SIS645DX / SIS962 Chipset, 4X AGP Slot; audio and LAN on board and takes socket PG 478. I would like to hear from someone who has used this type of mthrbrd to see what they think of it; like how does it compare with ECS K7S5A...

Ok, this is a really weird problem. I just installed a new hard drive on my Asus A7V266-E mobo and now when I boot up, I get the message "Keyboard is locked out - Unlock the key" after the POST. Here's the strange part, when I lay my PC on its side, I don't get the message and the PC boots up...

Because my 333MHz K6-2 computer didn't need any, but the case I've just got for my new Athlon has grilles at the front and back that I assume are for fans. So do I need one? Do I need two? Should I just wait and see how hot the thing runs first, or is that hardware suicide? I did remember to get a...

I'm looking to build a few Pentium 4 machines, using the 2.4GHz 800mhz FSB P4 and I was wondering what the preferred P4 motherboard is. (I don't say 'best' since that's highly debatable) In this instance these are desktop machines for people who do a variety of graphics and office applications such...

I am currently in the process of paying off on this one, but was wondering if anyone had comments or experience of using said monitor? I was looking for a high end model with high quality, did i choose...

Hi all, I have a bunch of drives hooked up to my new MB (Asus P4P800) and just recently checked in WinXP that my primary drive Western Digital WD1200JB was running in PIO mode. I swore when I put together the system at first that it was running properly at UDMA5. I can't seem to get it into this...

Hi, I am using Mozilla and would like to know how I go about making Outlook my default. Everytime I hit an email link in Mozilla the email for that browser comes up and not Outlook. Help would be appricated. Kevin

I have the opertunity to buy 11 Win-95 comps left over from an auction . Are they worth anything at all ? Am planning on fixing them up , and donating them to the needy in my area . tim

I have just set up a P4 2.8 on a MSI 875 Neo with 512mb ram. I have tried to install win 2000 but it hangs just past the startup logo screen. I tried win 95 and 98 too and get the same .... after the windows logo, the screen goes black with just a flashing cursor in the top left corner and no key...

On Thu, 04 Sep 2003 10:51:01 GMT, "H.Wartena" wrote: This computer has 2 HD , a Cd reader and a CD writer. So the IDE is full. Plugging in a second IDE controller results in conflicts. I can not see a type # but it is a controller for a AT slot and it has 7 jumpers marked...

Hi folks, OK, so I personally like the fans, and I don't mind the noise. I find it comforting to know they are whirring away in there moving air over my components. But the wife wants it quieter. It's true, when it's just sat there, not doing much, it doesn't need so much air movement, compared...

I need advice on USB Card Howdy doody folks, I'm stumped on this one. Sure seems like a simple thing, but I can't figure out where the ribbon cable for this USB card plugs in. Got to be something obvious I'm missing. Take a look at this sketch of the card. I would sure appreciate a hand on...

I want to replace the noisy old fan and heatsink on my Socket A Athlon 1.4 - the wife complains about the noise. Got a Nexus heatsink and fan, great. But I cannot find any reference as to how I should remove the old thermal compound that I put on the kernel of my CPU for the old heat sink....

A friend of mine is putting in server in the office and connecting 12-15 pc's to it. We are buying the server new , p4 2.4, 2gig ram and have a company to setup the network and install the software. They are trying to sell us the thin client workstations, used p-166's with 8 meg video and a nic...

Is it worth dishing out the extra bucks for the 8mb version of the Seagate Barracuda 120GB IDE hard drive? I'm looking for preformance but most of all QUIET. I have 2 noisy sub-40GB drives now and I'm looking for something as quiet as possible, with a bit more space as well. I hear the Seagates...

I'm just about to install a retail Athlon XP2500, what I want to know is, is it worth investing in some form of thermal grease or is the pad that comes with the heatsink ok? Also, have anyone had faulty retail XP2500? I have heard moans that there are a lot of faulty OEM versions out there cheers

I couldn't find a display/monitor group so I'll try here. I have a Samsung 172N LCD display. So far I'm not real pleased with it. It's fine for everything except black on white text. If it's displaying black on white text and move the window horizontally the test will appear to become lighter...

This is my first time attempting to build a PC and I must say tha this news group is a great way to come on board. A big thank you to all the contributors. Now my question. Can a motherboard with a micro-ATX form factor be easily mounted in a case that has a standard ATX form factor or would there...

I've got some Kingmax PC2700 which will run at 200MHz but not stably. It'll do 190 easy tho. Think it's worth running at that speed even tho it runs AGP and PCI out of spec? I don't need to overclock the FSB in order to run my XP1700+ at ~2GHz cuz the multipliers are all availbale up to 12.5x on...