Hello! The system I have built using a SuperMicro H8DCE motherboard was working great for about three-four weeks after I installed two AMD Opteron - Italy 275 CPUs. Yesterday, however, the system randomly rebooted and ever since then I get a message saying I have mixed processors installed in...

Hello, I have a problem with my Sony CRX-300A DVD/CD-RW combo drive... It takes a lot of time to browse (or even read) the contents of a CD or to copy it on the hard disk. I thought it might be caused by OS drivers or its configuration (Windows XP), but the same problem can be observed when I try...

I have a floppy on which I`ve transferred info from Word documents, then deleting the info from Word. I`ve brought up the info from the disc numerous times but now, when I try to load it, am getting the message, "The disc needs formatting. Do you want to format it now?" If I say, "No" the disc...

I've been a DIYer (on the subject of upgrading my PC) now I have a ESC K7S5A Pro MB Athlon 1800 (1.15 GHz) 1 G ram * Nvdia Riva TNT2 Ultra video card with 32M ram Canopus ACEDVio vid cap PCI card LG GSA 4040B multiburner

Would a Radeon 9800 Pro (non-PCI Express card) work with, say, the Abit AA8XE motherboard?

Is it just me or do notebooks just run very hot. I bought a new Inspiron a while ago and the temperatures are off the charts! If anybody gets the same problem could they tell me... that way I'll know that I didn't get faulty Hardware. Thanx in advance

Hi, I'm an Intel guy trying to make a leap of faith to AMD. Can anybody recommend a setup for Opteron64? What is the speed range of Opteron64 (min- max GHz)? What is the difference between Opteron and Sempron? What chipset to use? Which mobo vendor to use? What are the precautions and...

Hi, I'm told from several sources/friends not to connect some appliances to the UPS, like printers, but not provide some explanations. So, what kind of appliances I couldn't connect to the UPS? Can I connect, say, my TV, DVDPlayer, stereo systems, etc. And why? TIA

I have this SCSI-2 controller with a Seagate Barracuda Hard drive. I want to add more drives, but because SCSI has evolved so much I don't know what drives will NOT be compatible with SCSI-2.

Hi, I'm interested in buying such a HDD, but I notice that they're enclosed in a container that probably doen't have enough air circulation. Don't they heat up and then go to hard drive heaven? I Would like to buy a HDD, encase it in a home made airhole-riddled case and connect it somehow.....you...

Hi Just wondered, was installing an Nvidia 5900XT 256MB card, which demands an extra molex power input, for someone in their Dell (2.5GHz P4, who knows what else) PC. The new card caused BIZARRE patterns of red and other-coloured lines on the (analogue-input 15") LCD screen, over the top of...

I have updated my Lite On (LTD-166S) DVD drive with incorrect Firmware of my CDRW drive by accident. Now the bios and Windows 2000 does no longer detect the DVD drive. I tried to force the bios to find it but this did not work. I have the latest Windows Firmware for the DVD drive but can't flash it...

I am experiencing a problem for quite sometime. Very time i boot my computer there will be a popup which irritates me. Are there anywhere to solve it?

Hi, I'm having a problem with my computer, I hope someone can help me. It is a Duron 1 GHz on a Soyo K7VTA-Pro motherboard with 128MB of RAM, with Linux Slackware 9.1 and Windows XP installed. This computer is hanging when I turn it on, it can happen before LILO appears, it can happen when LILO...

I am having problems with the floppy drives... they are getting useless to store portable data and the limited storage space is not worth eanymore for my work. which entails saving data and retrieving it in another PC when I'm travelling.. But I do not want to lug a laptop either as I think its...

What would your home-brew do that an off the shelf laptop would not? Chuck wrote: I'm looking to make a computer that will use desktop components, in a portable format. Most of the components won't be a problem at all. An all-in-one motherboard removes the need for using the PCI slots,...

I have been having a problem with my computer and I think it is my hard drive. Two weeks ago and before that many times before, I have had to reinstall windows because i would get a message at startup that a certain file in windows/system32/config had become corrupted or deleted. i am constantly...

ii have an elitegroup k7sem with 2 128mb ram chips in it and its got a 1.7gig cpu. is this just not enough ram? it is running SLOW! ? Please help. Thank you!

Dear Group, I am using a 1.2Ghz "AMD Athalon" processor in a machine that I have built, and by the way is running fine. The question that I have is during boot-up, I noticed that Windows is displaying the processor as 900Mhz rather then 1200, and when I check in Device Manager, it show the...

Dear All I have installed on my computer a CDR. After my disastrous installation, my CDRom ceased to work and the CDR has never worked. I think that all connections are done correctly, however both devices (CDR and CDRom) do not work. I have tried all configurations of the jumpers master and...