For a long time I am trying to get my PC quiet, unsuccesfully. I am running a good ol' AMD Athlon 1.4 (Thunderbird). The temps were too high (65+ even in idle)with the original no-name HSF that came with it so I asked for a better HSF. The guy who sold me the machine gave a another no-name HSF...

hi..my problem is.. every time i come out to switch ON my pc...i got this BIOS setup entering...so i need to set all these b4 i can start working on my pc..i need to set my CPU speed...the date and time...so how can i solve this...plss help me..thanks in advanced!!!

hi..my problem is.. every time i come out to switch ON my pc...i got this BIOS setup entering...so i need to set all these b4 i can start working on my pc..i need to set my CPU speed...the date and time...so how can i solve this...plss help me..thanks in advanced!!!

Has anyone heard about incompatibilty between Antec and nForce chipsets. I know plenty of you will have this combo and obviously most won't have a problem or we'd hear about it more here. I've got an Epox 9npa+ Ultra and a 450W Antec smartpower PSU (part of Sonata II case) and an Athlon 64 3000+...

I'm attempting a new build with an Athlon 64 3000+ on an Epox 9npa+ Ultra board. The mobo has 3 Ledion indicators which supposedly show whether there is a problem with the Chipset, DIMMs or the CPU. On powering up with RAM (2x512 PC3200), CPU and graphics (Gainward 6600 PCI-e) the first two LEDs...

G' day I also have the problem with the monitor going into stand by while the computer keeps running, if I unplug the monitor then plug it back in I get the 640x480 4 colour mode. But this only happened if I have the Hyper-threading turned on in Bios and I try to play Links LS 2001. If I have the...

I have purchased the Asus P4C800 Deluxe Motherboard and I have not been about to get my mind around the setting up of the IDE ports. I am guessing that the IDE ports are ready to use by default but I am not sure. All that I want to do at this time is to connect my 2 hard drives and 2 CR-Rom drives...

I Installed the new P4C800 motherboard tonight but It does not boot up, I get 2 beeps and the computer starts to bootup but after the splash screen I get a blue error screen that flashes so quick that it cant be read and the computer goes to the multi choice screen where it ask's me if I want to...

Hi, My name is Yong and I am a grad student at the University of Toronto. I have a 5-question survey about a research project called "Active Badge", and I am writing to invite you to participate in this survey. The survey consists only 5 questions and can be found...

ASUS CUBX Motherboard. Maxtor 40GB HDD. Intel Celeron sub-1ghz processor (but don't let that stop you helping me :) Hi, I'll try and be concise... My old HDD broke down so I've just bought another one (maxtor 40gb). The HDD which broke was the system disk, no partitions, so I'm starting again...

My fan seems very loud can I get a quieter one? what is a good quiet one to get? I'm pretty sure it isn't noisy hard-drives thanks muchly mark

I'm about to switch my 8KHA+ motherboard out for another one, i had bad caps. I can still boot the old one. I'd like to transfer my custom bios settings to the new board. Can someone recommend the best way to do this.

I recently came into an 80g HD that I'd like to use for backup storage. After installing it I noticed that it was divided into a 60g and 20g partition. I formatted both in XP, hoping that maybe that would cause them to combine, but no dice. Is there a way to get rid of this partition?

just installed a new Maxtor 200 gig drive, moved files using Seagate program. But now, the old drive which was 140 gig, is reading as only 31.2 gigs. Bios reads the drive correctly. Using win xp SP2. Tried formatting, but it remains at 31 gigs. Any suggestions would be appreciated. thanks...

Ok, here's the deal. My girlfriend has bought this: http://www.powerspec.com/systems/system_specs.phtml?selection=6002 and I am at a loss as to how to upgrade this thing. Since I end up using it a lot, I do want to upgrade. Getting another machine for her is not an option right now. I did add...

Hi Another question please. I have a computer from Microcenter and altogether it works nice and I am in the process of making it nicer. It has one rather annoying feature. On bootup it displays brand of computer and an Intel logo. This is before windows begins to load. I would much prefer...

currently have one IDE hard drive on my main IDE controller (C drive), a large USB connected drive and two DVD burners. If I install a Sata drive, will it become the drive for my operating system (assuming I copy stuff over) or what drive letter will it take. thanks b

I am buying a new computer and will take a few components out of the current computer (running win xp). I have heard that if you take stuff out windows will assume that its been moved and will have to be re-activated. I have upgraded the current computer with memory about a year ago and will take...

Am building a basic computer for my girlfriend. Low level Pentium, 1 gig ram. Nothing special. Am I better off adding ram and letting the integrated motherboard video run the video, or should I install a separate video card? Not sure if there is an advantage one way or the other. she does not...

Hi , whenever i try to downlaodany file from a website opened in mozilla firefox i get the following error download has been blocked by your security zone policy please help what should i do