I bought a 500w Ultra XConnect power supply and notice when I walk into the room with the PC a slight smell - like plastic/rubber burning. Not real strong but I do notice when I walk in the room. Is this normal or should I exchange for another? Wasn't sure if maybe it takes a few days to break...

hi guys, just got an 'new' (old) hard drive - Samsung SV4002H - and i'm just trying to work out what all the jumper settings are for.... anyone know? (would i be better house this drive in my external USB hard drive case, and swapping it with the IBM drive i've already got in it?)

Hello My new Acer Aspire 1682 wlmi has two 30GB hardisks and I was wondering if anyone has experience or ideas on how to convert it into a Raid 0 configuration? Also what's the best to back up the files already on there.... will an image work on a reconfigured hard disk?

I notice that Kingston has a specific warning against using PC133 in this machine, and recommends the slower (and more expensive) PC100 parts. Given that I am not contemplating mixing, but complete replacement (I want full ECC capabilities) can anybody explain this warning? -- Chuck F...

I know I know...this is an age-old question, but...has anyone experienced heating problems with a Pentium 4 processor? AMD processors used to be running a lot hotter than Intel's until the recent past, but for the latest models, Intel's seemed to heat a little more, from what I've read. ...

if i buy a processor, would i need to buy a cooler for it too, or is it included?

A customer wants to run 2 monitor off the one computer. One will be the standard computer monitor while the other will show a power point presentation all day and night. Is it possible to do this without the mouse being able to go onto the other screen or applications accidentally being dragged...

I'd like to add a DVD player/burner to my configuration, but I'm not sure I'll able to burn regular CD-Rs and CD-RWs... Any clue? Thanks, -- Justin. http://www.opera.com/m2/

I have a homebuilt system running 3 HD's: 2 SATA Raptors in a RAID 0 config, and an older IBM ATA Deskstar for storing back up data. The ATA disk is partitioned, with 5MB being allocated for Windows (XP Pro) virtual memory. When running Diskeeper (ver 8, updates installed), the RAID...

Motherboard: Abit NF7-S v2.0 Processor: AMD Athlon XP 2500+ Barton Memory: 512MB (two 256MB stick filling 2 of 3 slots) Problem: +3.3V line is at 3.79V. Might be too high but what to do? I had not ran my hardware monitor utility for awhile that shows voltages, fan speeds, and...

Anyone know of a chain store or other places you might be able to recycle a Viewsonic monitor? I haven't asked Viewsonic yet, but I will next. Clark

The clock on my friend's computer jumps an even 3 hours every day or so. He resets it and a day or so later it is 3 hours off again. Anyone have any idea how this can happen? Thanks

Heres my PC spec 2.53ghz Pentium 4 GeForce FX 5500 256mb DVD Drive CD ROM Re-Writer 80GB harddrive. Windows XP Home Up until recently I had two sticks of 256mb DDR RAM. Everything was fine

I'm helping a friend upgrade his computer with an S939 A64 3000+ and an MSI 480M2-IL mobo, using the onboard video, no expansion cards, 80GB Seagate Barracuda PATA. Since he already has a Win98SE CD, I tried to install that and ran into trouble in the final stages. It always hangs at the...

Query 1: =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D We have 4 machines with 3.06 GHz P4 with Intel D865VHZ M/B, 1 GB Kingstone RAM and Fedora Core 3 installed in them. This morning I noticed the OS is reporting temperature "too high" in the login console. I rebooted the machine and tried to...

I have a few old HD's (IDE Type) lying around and they still work. I was wondering is there a unit out there that would handle these old HD's similiar to a raid controller that I could get to handle these drives but yet treat all of them as one hard drive?

"Stu Cooper" wrote in message ... I see that Maplins are doing an offer for twelve 1800 mAh NiMH AA cells for about £10. Is this the bargain it seems or is there a catch which someone here might know about? ...

Is it possible to calculate the maximum download speed of a PII/266 MHz system with a 66 MHz front side buss? Would it be possible to obtain all of a 4 Mbps cable modem speed offered by a cable ISP? Using NIC, not USB. What are the other limiting factors? Thanks...

I currently have 256mb ram (ddr 333) and i bought another 256 stick to boost it to 512, but every time i add it, when windows loads it gives me the blue screen with page fault or some other error, pfn_file_list corrupt and a memory dump, and it says Windows has been shut down to prevent damage to...

...and now it's dead. I did manage to make it boot for a while but most of the keyboard was dead. Then the computer shut down.. :-( Any really useful suggestions? cheers