Hi, I`m looking for a silent (30dB) psu can anybody recommend one. I see Dabs have dabs value 400w silent ones for £17.50, anybody tried these? Seems a big difference compared the the Quiet PC 350w at £58.75. I may need two, one for my main PC a AMD2400+ full tower and for a games/general use...

**** Post for FREE via your newsreader at post.usenet.com **** Would it be possible to help compile a list of brands of bad power supplies so that I and others can avoid them (I also want to get rid of some in the machines we have)? I know that Deer and its several brands are bad, but what about...

Did you install XP Service pack 1? With AV 2003 sometimes you need to install it before XP Service Pack 1 On 18 Sep 2003 05:14:55 -0700, (jackie) wrote: i have win xp and have loaded norton antivirus 2003 the machined crashed while loading so I rebooted. Now the computer...

I'm thinking about building a high end system and I'm looking for advice. I built my last three computers. With each one, I tried to get ahead of the curve just a bit, but never really went with the highest end. Now, I'd like to spend a little more. I've been using a Gateway 700XL on a...

Hey all whats the best board out there for a socket 478 2 gig chip. I dont want anything on the board (sound video lan) if I can help it and it needs to take pc133 memory. just what the best board with the best performance and stable. thanks all for the info. Dave

I need a replacement HSF for a Celeron 800MHz. Website I looked at had 29 hsf?? Could someone tell me if this is a suitable replacement as I realise if I choose wrong one then cpu wont last long. Coolermaster DP5-5G11B Skt A upto 1.1 /370 upto 1gb & K6-2 600 Heatsink & Fan

as to what would cause this to happen? Also ****ed me off as her SD ram running @ 100/100 is faster than my DDR RAM running @ 266. Unless you have come across it before it will stump ya ;-) Clue.I used to have an Abit KT7 VIA board.

I have (2) 80 Gig SATA hard drives on order, which I want to put in a Mirror configuration. Will they be drives C & D? Will I be able to access both of them, or will only C be available?? Thanks

Been lurking in newsgroups and have just realised its a good idea to have additional partitions on hard drives. Glad to have opinion/ideas on how best to manage this. I have two hard drives installed, neither of which have more than one partition...and both only about 5% used at the mo:- C:...

the above is a 500 mhz system running win 98 from system restore is the ram standard or proprietory??...ibm tells me it is 100mhz sdram and costs $720.00 thanks for your posts topp topp

Does anyone know what has happened to Onstream tape back up? A couple of years ago they disappeared and went through bankrupcy but re-emerged. A couple of weeks ago they again disappeared and their website is nowhere to be found. I've been using their USB tape back up (Echo 30) and have found...

What is good/excellent laptop hard drive dealer?

Hi.. My performance so far,, I have now got the computer to recognise that there is a hard drive on the POST screen. I have tried booting from floppy and cdrom, After the POST screen it comes up with the next screen loading pmi/dmi data and then it gets to the point "remove disks or media and...

What is a case badge? Thanks, Thunder9

I will be putting in 2 LAN's in my (small) office, one, (LAN A), will consist of only two computers, the other (LAN B) will consist of 4 computers. LAN A centers around a USR broadband router while LAN B uses a simple network hub in a peer-to-peer configuration. I want to connect to both LAN's...

My homebuilt computer worked fine for about a year. Yesterday I loaded Partition Magic on my XP system and attempted to merge two partitions. The system crashed and would not reboot. Ultimately I did a low level reformat of the HD and tried to reinstall XP. When I try to boot the XP cd I get the...

Hi, I have an antec fan I got from somewhere. It has a 3 prong connector, and a traditional 4 socket connector (like what connects to hard drives). It works with the 4-socket, but not when the 3-prong is plugged into the mobo's "power fan" connector. However, I noticed when both are plugged in the...

I finally got around to putting a USB2 card into my old Cyrix running Windows 98 but because the USB 1.1 card is onboard the motherboard everytime I try to install drivers for the new one the system freezes (I'm guessing it's a conflict between the two because when I remove and try to reinstall the...

I am sorry for the n00bi clulessness of this post, it is a while since i was up on the tech. I have a 'puter built round an abit KR7-A, paired with a athlon 1.4 (xp maybe not sure) old skool proc anyway. I also have 768meg Ram (3x 256 sticks, pc2100 erm dont know anything else about it :)) I want...

Hi, I have a 128mb Sapphire Radeon 9200 (atlantis?) card. It says on the box it has vivo capabilities and apparently I can set up digital VCR to record video to HDD. Except I don't seem to have the digital VCR software! The box came with the card , a s-video cable and a CD-rom. Installing the...