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.

Hi A friend asked me to fix her Dell XPS 600. You try to turn it on, the fans spin, and it shuts itself off after a few seconds. I have searched the web and found several posts in message boards where people have the exact same problem with this machine. Here is one of my favorites, twelfth...

I had a bad experience with a Gigabyte power supply that I bought from Newegg, so I posted a review of it reflecting my opinion of it. The manufacturer's response seemed humorous, so I thought you might enjoy it. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817233010 My favorite part of...

Hi, A 'lot of diffuse hardware problems' is a story too long to recite. I was reluctant to upgrade to a BETA BIOS. When I did I thought I'd bricked the machine. After a nights sleep, I realized the upgrade had reset to defaults / PCI monitor rather than PCIe. Now hardware works perfect....

Actually, if you want to hot flash (a "not for the faint of heart" method to recover a bad flash), you'll need to set the BIOS to cacheable in order to pull the BIOS chip out while it's running. -- Please de-spam my address if replying to me -------------------------------------------- "Adrian...

How to remove on/off button and troubleshoot or replace. Currently it sticks when pushed in, it would sometimes pop back to regular "on" postion and power up and process..now it will power up but won't processs, sometimes get the error screen that that starts the countdown to start in normal mode...

On our standard 56k dialup modem (in the UK, this is), we only get ~38k when we connect. Are there any ways to correct this? I've considered calling the phone company and asking them to turn up the gain, but I've also been told that this wouldn't make any difference. Drivers etc are all up to...

I had a motherboard with a built in IDE RAID Promise chipset. I used two drives for RAID 0 (now I know this was a bad idea). To make a long story short, the system board is shot and I can't get another with the same RAID chipset. Even if I throw the computer out, I really need to save my data. My...

"Speaker For PC Interanal BIOS Computer Motherboard Mini Onboard Case Buzzer Board Beep Alarm NEW." https://www.newegg.com/p/pl?d=Speaker+For+PC+Interanal+BIOS+Computer+Motherboard+Mini+Onboard+Case+Buzzer+Board+Beep+Alarm+NEW. This is a cheap option that can be added post hoc. Is it worth it?...

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My Western Digital external USB 500GB disk has been working for months on a variety of Windows XP Home & Professional machines but all of a sudden, it is found in Windows but Windows says it's a RAW disk with no data. Can a virus convert a perfectly good disk into a "raw" disk (whatever that...

can any1 tell me if this modem has fax on it plz http://www.pcnextday.co.uk/product_detail.asp?stype=5&productcode=2110-3010&group=MRIM&pgroup=MOD&ref_site=kelkoo

I'm looking at installing a SATA RAID 5 system in my home PC to provide a means of data recovery in case of hard disk failure (I'm thinking this will be cheaper in the long run than installing a tape drive for a Tb of data). When the 400Gb drives are released I'll be looking at getting 4 for...

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My system is a year-and-a-half-old Dell Dimension 8400 running WinXP, with a Dell wireless keyboard and mouse, and is left on 24 hours a day. Unfortunately the mouse, which requires two AA batteries, uses up batteries very fast, so I'd like to replace the mouse with a more efficient one (but keep...

I just found an incredible thing. A *standard* *ATX* Packard Bell. Does anyone know if these are any good? -- I believe in having an open mind, but not so open that my brains fall out.

I have a desktop and a laptop, both with Windows XP and fairly fast GHZ CPU's. I have followed the instructions very carefully and in the device manger I see on both computers the Bridge USB. Yet, when I click on the desktop icon for PCConnect it does bring up the PCLinq (that's how they spell...

Olen päivittämässä w2k professionalia. Winupdate lataa tiedostot kiltisti, mutta asentaminen ei onnistu, vaikka oikeudet ovat järjestelmänvalvojaoikeudet. Onko kokemusta vastaavasta?

Same guy - second problem! I think I blew it this time. I bought a Gigabyte GA-F2A88X-D3H ATX FM2 motherboard from Mwave.com and a AMD A10-5800K 3.8GHz Quad-Core FM2 CPU from Amazon. I wanted to install XP and W7 on the same system, and multi-boot. Now I find that I can't install XP - I get a...

I've built a "basic" PC desktop, I mean 150-200w max for "basic" including my monitor, with a Corsair CX450 PSU (OEM CWT RPS0053) with active PFC. Now I need a UPS but my budget isn't high to get the best (eg. an online UPS) so I'd like to buy a UPS with the best quality/price relationship for my...