http://www.foxbusiness. com/story/markets/industries/retail/circuit-city-liquidate-remaining-stores/ "Circuit City (CC) has reached a deal to be fully liquidated after failing to find a buyer or a refinancing deal. The electronics retailer reached an agreement with liquidators to sell the...

Hi, Stan, my brother-in-law just phone to ask about replacing the noisy cpu fan in his amd system. He bought a new fan for $10 and said it has 3 wires on it. The one in the system has 2 wires on it. He asked me, the family computer whiz, if it was OK to plug it in. hmmm.... "Ya got me...

I also noticed when the green power light blink/flicker like crazy, it takes about 2-3 seconds to turn off/go away after switching the PSU off. On 12/1/2009 9:39 PM PT, Ant typed: Hello! I came home to my already powered on old Linux computer desktop (leave it mostly 24/7). I woke it up...

I'm using AT&T and they have a package deal that they say will check out your computer online and get rid of all virus and malware etc problems for so much per month, but they want you to agree to a contract of a year at a time and they're already charging me way more for the service I have than...

Amanda Williams wrote: "Godzilla Pimp" allegedly said in : It's hard to do because they're so dumb. Most of the time they have no idea what you're talking about. GP

The battery is a good choice to start with. at least you have eliminated the PSU, you are thinking on the right lines. Failing this remove all except the CPU, RAM & Graphics and see if you can get the bios to boot, you should get a message saying 'Please insert Disc' or something to that...

Maximum PC says DDR3 is on the way next summer, which will require new motherboard and ram again. My opinion is it won't be mainstream in MBs or RAM till 2008. I would say anyone with a 939 system stay put till then. Flash the bios and put a 4200 dual core in, be happy. -- Love and Teach, Not...

Would an inexpensive digital multimeter give me more accurate readings for voltages from the PSU than the built-in sensors that I see displayed by programs that monitor them? I recall someone somewhere saying that built-in sensors weren't that reliable. How much should I expect to pay for a...

Hi My Boot drive is 60G and my old BIOS saw that OK and Fdisk partitioned it OK some time ago. For extra storage. I bought a Seagate 120G drive and my then present BIOS would not see more than 32,248M of the new drive. I then used Seagate's DDO which worked OK for a few days and it did enable me...

No wonder I ended up with this multimeter -- a no-brainer, fly-paperweb for catching people after they've flitted away an old multimeter, wont to pick up the first thing that catches their eye. Which I did. Instant gratification. Aneng pretty much dominates low-end, cheap functionality with...

wrote: I need advice. I'm upgrading my PC. It's only 2 years old, but I need more power. Currently my PC has a sub-300 Watt power supply. I would like to upgrade and get a 400-500 watt power supply. However, the units I've looked at have a depth greater than 4.5...

Hi, I just purchased a used HP Visualize x550 workstation running 2 Xeon PIII 550's/512Mb/9.1Gig Cheetah scsi etc. As this was a used computer it was sold clean, without any OS onboard. I am using the machine primarily for digital audio/video apps and wish to use Win XP. Upon installing XP...

Hi, I got a Biostar M7NCD motherboard that says it can support 400Mhz FSB. I bought a new AMD 3200 XP+, 400FSB CPU and 512MB PC3200 Memory to go with it. I wanted to run it with FSB speed of 400Mhz. The default BIOS setup is for 200Mhz FSB and the BIOS menu does not let me change it to anything...

What's the difference between the two MBs? I have an broken A7N8X Deluxe and a -E that works fine. The former has a "feeper" sound device and an AGP warning LED and certain things such as the CD Audio header are in different places. The CMOS setup on the -E seems nicer -- it has the...

Hi, I'm currently getting some parts together to build a second PC, and I have a question regarding cooling. A bit of background.... I also have a Dell Dimension 8300, which doesn't use the 'normal' cooling setup for the CPU of a heatsink with fan mounted on it, but instead has a large heatsink...

I'm building my dream machine (as much as I can afford) and hit a new error message for me. The system is Intel mobo D975XBX2KR w/ Core 2 Duo E6600 and video card Matrox Parahelia APVe which is a 128MB PCIe x16. It copies the XP pro cd without a problem (horizontal bar at bottom goes to 100%) and...

I want to create a cd-rom boot disk and flash the bios on this Soyo motherboard so it will work with service pack 2. I’d like to do this with a cd-rom since I’m building this system without a floppy drive. How do I create a bootable and flashable CD-ROM? -- Posted using the...

Hello, I'm replacing the fan & heatsink on a 600 mhz Celeron socket 370 CPU and was unsure if I needed to clean the old thermal pad residue off of the chip? If I should, what would be the best method? Thanks in advance, Troy

I'm working with a security camera that's using this tiny rj-45 like connector on its cable. Anyone know what its called? Its looks exactly like an rj-45 but its just smaller. Six pins. No luck with web searches. -- Mike Block Banner Ads Now http://everythingisnt.com/hosts.html

My first homebuilt is alive and well, thanks to all the great info on this newgroup and the customer comments on newegg.com. For those of you looking for "known-to-work" configurations (I know I was during my investigation) this is mine: MaxTop Mid case w/350W 2Fan CSX147 Shuttle AN35N...