A friend of mine has this old computer with a Jetway 720BF motherboard, 64MB of 168pin 100MHz SDRAM and a Pentium II (Slot 1) CPU (100MHz FSB) with 450MHz installed. The computer still does the job but I was wondering if it would be possible to tweak the thing a little bit. According to the...

On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 15:03:13 -0500, "Andy in NJ" SHORECOGS at COMCAST DOT NET wrote: I recently got a DVI to VGA adapter so I can run dual monitors on my ATI Radeon card. The purpose was so I could play Medal of Honor (which runs in full screen) and have the server monitor program that I use...

Yesterday I came to the machine, which is always on, but when idle, cuts off the monitor, and nothing would happen (nothing would display) when I used the mouse or keyboard. The first two attempted reboots didn't get Windows to load, but on the third, Windows started the system performed normally....

I'm gonna buy an Intel Desktop Board D101GGC motherboard and a pentium D 805 processor. Can I use my old kingston SDRAMs (one per 133 MHz and one per 100 MHz) with it? Did anyone here had this combo? How did it work? Hoping for a quick reply Bartek PS: Can anyone tell me what I will have in the...

Will Windows Power the Living Room? Microsoft's Home Concept PC combines video recorder, CD player, phone, and more. Joris Evers, IDG News Service Tuesday, May 04, 2004 SEATTLE -- Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard are showing off at a developers conference here some Windows XP concept devices intended...

Hi - I know memory mapped IO is about mapping device/controller registers to memory space in order to reduce the number of processor instructions (and simplify device driver writing) . My question is: are device registers mapped to virtual memory or physical memory? I suspect the former, and I...

I've got a HDD fantec external enclosure with esata II port and its own power supply. I've bought an esata-sata cable to connect this enclosure to one of my mobo's 6 sata III ports. Firstly I connected the fantec power supply, then its esata-sata cable and then I've started an ubuntu live session....

We have multi mode fiber in our office for network access and the Optiplex came with an Ethernet card only so we need either a transceiver which can convert the fiber to Ethernet or an internal fiber Ethernet card. 1. We have some spare internal cards(Allied Telesyn AT-2701FX PCI 100Mb Fiber...

I would like to know the way to reduce the speed of a fan inside a small device in order to cut down the noise from the fan. If I understand this correctly, I am supposed to do this by undervolting the fan from 12-volt it is now to something like 6-volt using some kind of "inline resistor" or...

I'm looking for a PC w/at least a 3.4Mhz processor, 1 Gig RAM, 128 Meg Vid. RAM and 80 gig hard drive. A 2nd 10k RPM 80 gig HD would be nice but I think it'd be cheaper to by that on aftermarket & install it. I'd also want a 17 or 18" LCD. I'm looking to spend $1400ish. The machine will be used...

This is a continuation of an old thread: Paul suggested I try an Intel E4700 CPU. So far I have only acquired a couple of Intel E4800 CPU(s), TDP 65 W. I cannot feel heat emitted, like with Intel Q9650 CPU. With it, PC would try to boot 3 times then give up. Now it tries forever, but gives...

We have two LG monitors(LG 55LN5600 - 55" Class ( 54.6" viewable ) LED-backlit LCD flat panel display http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=dhs&cs=19&sku=a7069206 and LG 47LN5400 http://www.lg.com/us/tvs/lg-47LN5400-led-tv) We want to connect them to a computer(Dell...

Hello all, I appologize in advance for crossposting in 3 different groups, but I'm unsure what the appropriate topic this issue falls under: First I want to say upfront that I am a systems engineer/builder/network engineer and have been dealing with hardware for years now so I am...

I have a MSI KT Ultra motherboard (VIA KT333 chipset) and an Athlon XP 2100. Normally this pc is running SETI 24/7. However, recently, on the occasional reboots, the alarm sounds because one or both of the fans are either not going round, or too slowly. Sometimes the CPU fan just takes a while to...

Hello You can't help to notice the significant change in hardware and software at the moment. A somewhat interesting scenerio is playing out. AMD has its x86-64 architecture, which can run 32-bit applications rather well, and promises to be able to run 64 bit applications, when they come out,...

Some people believe religiously in smooth laminar flow of fluid past an object to cool that object. But turbulence actually acts to scrub away the boundary layer of air (or other fluid) that surrounds the object to make closer contact between the object and the passing fluid. It is the...

I want to upgrade my cpu to an XP2800+. I've double checked and found that I can't use my current board MSI KT3 Ultra. I want a new motherboard then, still an MSI. I figure although most of my other components aren't bang up to date, I may as well get the most advanced I can. (I have 4x AGP card,...

When I first start my computer, there is a grinding/vibrating noise that sounds like it's coming from the power supply. It's not a constant noise but rather it comes about every 10 to 15 seconds. Once the computer is warmed up, the grinding noise goes away. I was hoping it was the case fan so I...

Hi, My short story/question is: Is FX5200 AGP 8x backwards compatible with AGP 4x ? My long story/question is: I have a Pentium III 450 mhz and 256 mb ram.

How to connect CAT 5 or 6 to a modular telephone jack? I need to connect an 8C8P jack to a 4-conductor telephone-style jack, at both ends of the cable.. Two basic questions: A) Terminology, Does RJ45 just refer to 4-conductor modular telephone line connectors, that are on the ends of the...