My toshiba laptop motherboard with a 3.06 P4 M (Prescott) fried. Can the CPU be used in a desktop motherboard? SL7DT (Intel Mobile Pentium 4) Processor typeIntel: Mobile Pentium 4 Processor number: 532 Part number: RK80546HE0831M Package type: 478-pin FC-mPGA4 Processor speed: ...

hi, i've to test some laptops with wirelees configuration. On a HP nc6320 & intel 3945 ABG there a functionnality that switch wifi nic and lan nic... when i plug lan connector, wireless is set to disabled.... great tool ! on a HP nc6000 & intel 2200 ... this isn't exist. Intel 3945 and 2200 are...

Hi all I will tell u every thing i did.. see if u can help me.. i have an intel d850GB Mother board. I had win98SE installed. but i was not able to install video driver.. i was not able to upgrade to xp also.. so i decided to update the BIOS and did that with the latest one from

From what I can tell, the Intel Chipset Software Installation Utility version 6.3.0.1007 is the last version to include any support for Windows 98. There doesn't seem to be any other version between that one and version 7.x.x. (why does the readme say "NOTE: For the list of supported...

Got a question for you guys, I got a p5dh deluxe and i havent seen it put up against any of these mobos like the bad axe! That being said maximum pc mag said that the intel mobos have features for the new core 2 duo and will support the quad! so am i to understand that my p5w does not ad up and...

I'm building a new system based on the Bad Axe and the Core 2 Duo E6400 (2.13GHz) and my current system has a P4 2.8GHz. Someone told me that if the two PCs use the same graphic card, games will run slower on my new system because (1) games ignore the 2nd core and (2) thus game will be powered...

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This may be a dumb question, but... does the new Core 2 Duo show up as 4 processors?

Considering building a new system for my wife. Therefore it MUST be stable. Looking at a Core 2 Duo 6300, 2 gb of 667 memory, ASUS P5LD2-VM R2.0 mb, no video card, and the rest of the usualy suspects (DVD burner, hard drive or two, etc. - nothing special) What would be the minumim PS needed to...

Hi. I've got pentium D 915 and motherboard intel D945GNT. I worry about temperature of the cpu: - when idle, temp. is about 45-47 degrees Celsius (cpu fan: 1000 rpm) - when 100% use of cpu, the temp. is about 59-61 degrees Celsius (cpu fan: 1400-1700 rpm). The cpu fan is intel box. Cpu isn't...

I'd like to get mac os X on a dual core without paying the Apple tax on the HW - has anybody tried installing the latest os X on a new dual core HP Dell et al ??????????????

Hello Everyone, Recentely I purchased a box having D945GNT as motherboard with Intel P4 3GHz and WD2500JS as SATA HDD. I loadded the SATA drivers during installation of Win XP using the F6 key. After the installation, When I view the configuration using Intel

An Interview With Cell Architect Jim Kahle Thursday, October 26, 2006 The PlayStation 3: An Interview With Cell Architect Jim Kahle Dean Takahashi, 12:01 AM in Dean Takahashi, Gaming Microprocessor_party_035 Jim Kahle is the chief architect of the Cell microprocessor and the visionary behind the...

Just moved from RC1 to RC2 and a couple of nagging problems are still present: 1) I use external USB drives to store digital photos and the drive is not being recognized unless I reboot the computer with the USB2 drive connected. Works fin with XP-Pro SP2. When I turn on the drive in Vista RC2...

http://tinyurl.com/ydtq7k (nytimes.com) http://games.kikizo.com/news/200610/063.asp http://tinyurl.com/yadece (teamxbox.com) http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=68767 it seems Microsoft will try to design its own multi-core CPUs. the same thing was said shortly after Xbox1...

I've bought an Antec P180B to build a Core 2 Duo/Bad Axe system. According to the manual, two tool boxes should have come with the case. Mine came with only one (it was inside the lower HD bay). What I have is: 1. Rails for 5.25 & 3.25 drives. 2. Top fan spoiler 3. A few brass standoffs and...

Hello, I have been buying servers with Adaptec and LSI RAID cards for years. These are real RAID cards, no use of the host CPU, great preformance, etc. I need to build a server that supports mirroring. My Pointy-Haired Boss doesn't want to spend the money on a real server. He wants me to buy a...

My Intel Bad Axe motherboard has an onboard 12v 1x4 PCI-e power connector, which powers PCI-e cards. I, of course, connected a power cable to it. Now, my X1900GT card has a 2x3 PCI-e power connector. Should I also connect a power cable to it???

I heard that the 80286 had 20 bits in for each address in memory but an address bus of only 16 bits! How did I access an address in memory with this limitation?

Intel has a BIOS update for my D102GGC2 board. The update file is gc1074.bio. (Note the .bio extention). Intel says: "2. Using software capable of uncompressing and writing an ISO image to a CD, burn the data to a blank CD. Note: Copying the ISO image file to CD will not work; the...