Hi all Just wondering if anyone can explain the benefits of buying a laptop with a P4M 3.?Ghz processor over a Pentium M 2.0Ghz? I understand that the M processor is "more efficient" than its 2.0Ghz would suggest but what is the equivalent speed of a P4? The machines I am looking at have up to...

Sorry to bother all of you, but I have just bought an intel 845 MSI motherboard, 1gb of memory, hard drives and everything, and can't get the computer to see the cache ram. its a 2.4ghz celeron processor with the pc-133 sd ram. I have XP Professional installed, and have tried Home Edition too!!!...

I've got a D865GBF based-box with the most recent BIOS update. I'd like to add a second SATA controller to add a third hard disk. I have two PCI-card SATA controllers: an Adaptec 1205SA and a SIIG SC-SATR12, both Silicon Image based controllers. Niether appear to function properly when added to...

Hello, I just installed a machine with a P4 3.6GHz CPU. The MOBO is an ASUS P5GDC-V Deluxe, WinXP Pro SP2. I have a SATA HDD connected to the primary SATA connector and a DVD ROM connected to the Primary IDE connector as a master. The machine runs OK but disk access is extremely slow. I ran a...

Hi Guya, I am planing to build a high performance workstation. So I know I want a dual chip system with SCSI. Form Intel's site it appears that Xeon is a better chip BUT the current Xeon available here in Toronto is mainly 533 Mhz FSB. These days the P4 with 800 FSB AND higher clock rate is...

With an Intel D865PERL mobo using their supplied, onboard sensors and supplied Intel Active Monitor, it monitors three zones. Processor zone, zone 1 and zone 2. Where on the board are zone 1 and 2 located? IOW, where on the mobo is it monitoring? TIA Pic.

Hi, Does anyone in here have the boot-cd for the SKA4 Intel Server Board (to create a service-partition) ? If yes, please reply to bipsen (a) andebakken.dk - (to avoid too much spam ;-) ) - I'd really appreciate if I could download an ISO dump somewhere... Regards,

I am willing to pay top dollar for new Intel D815EEA2LU motherboards, the silk-screened "U" UNIVERSAL version with 6 USB ports most commonly known for supporting Celeron processors. I am also willing to pay well for boards that are in excellent condition. Please contact ...

I have an abit vt6x4 with via apollo pro 133 chipset. I have the latest bios that was available for that board. It is a slot 1. The processor is a PIII 1.0 ghz slot 1 (no adapters). video card - diamond viper 770 ultra 32 meg ram - sdram - 512 meg - 133 The bios says will support PIII to 1 ghz.

Hello I use a mainboard ASUS P4P800 DELUXE with a sound card a-trend harmony 6000, I have only stereo 3D, and I look for a good driver and AC3. someone help me?

I've got a D865GBF based-box with the most recent BIOS update. I'd like to add a second SATA controller to add a third hard disk. I have two PCI-card SATA controllers: an Adaptec 1205SA and a SIIG SC-SATR12, both Silicon Image based controllers. Niether appear to function properly when added to...

Having some trouble with my home desktop. The NIC is attached to the motherboard, first it just Started displaying network cable not connected. I reinstalled drivers etc, but the problem persisted. It started working for a little bit, but then went out again. Then I put in another NIC into a...

Hello, I just installed a machine with a P4 3.6GHz CPU. The MOBO is an ASUS P5GDC-V Deluxe, WinXP Pro SP2. I have a SATA HDD connected to the primary SATA connector and a DVD ROM connected to the Primary IDE connector as a master. The machine runs OK but disk access is extremely slow. I ran a...

HvS wrote: About three months ago I put together my new (dream) PC and have been haunted with instability problems. Things like freezing every few minutes for about 10-20 secs then continuing, CorelDraw freezing completely when loading a large JPG and programs taking looong times to...

I hope I have posted to the correct group for this I apologise if not but please point me in the right direction ! and now to the question.. I have a spare PC which has HOLCO shuttle mainboard,AMD K6-2/CXT 5OOMhz,Chipset- VIA APOLLO MVP3 PCI and the BIOS is Award Modular v4.51PG. I have a Intel P4...

hi , yes you can configure VLAN on windows , There are two ways :- 1). if your ethernet driver suports tagging than you can enable that from the management utility supplied along with. Intel PRO 100 do support VLAN. 2). Write your own driver iff it does not support ,

Thank you all for your responses. Called Intel phone support, diagnosed for 3 hours, and was unable to solve the problem by verifying latest BIOS upgrade installed, correct driver updates installed, etc. One attempt even involved rolling back the BIOS to a previous version. My impression...

I believe this is nothing but a bx440 board with a creative platinum blaster chip integrated. The cmos was reset with the power cord plugged in numerous times which caused the comp. to boot. Eventually the comp. would not boot at all, just giving a series of long continuous beeps. I believe he...

Okay I've read Intel's website where they say you must update the bios on certain Intel motherboards if you're running a P4 processor with an 800 fsb. However, they don't say why you must update the bios and what will happen if you don't. Anyone know why they're saying the bios needs to be updated?

I bought an Alienware in July 2002 with the 2.26 Ghz Intel D850EMV2 chipset. Can any gamers tell me if there is an appreciable increase in performance with the 3.2 Ghz? Obviously, there is some. But I am curious if it would be worthwhile to upgrade anytime soon. I'm going to move to a 9800...