"GSW" wrote in message ... Over the past few weeks, and with more and more regularity, my system hangs accompanied by the sound that was playing at the time, on a very short loop (ie dadadadadadadada). The only way...

Does anyone know of an online store that has the low power (55 watt) single processor 2.0 GHz Opteron (the 146 HE) CPU -- either the boxed or the tray version -- in stock? The part number for the boxed version is OSK146ATBOX. Many online stores list it, but it always seems to be backordered, on...

The 240EE is a low power Opteron CPU that runs at 1.15 volts rather than the 1.5 volts of the standard Opterons. Does anyone know whether the SK8V will detect that the CPU is a 240EE and, accordingly, adjust the CPU voltage to 1.15 volts? -- Bob Day

On Sat, 16 Jul 2005 15:50:08 UTC, David Mahon wrote: When you do come to replace yours, look at: http://www.upsbattery.co.uk/ (owned by the following) http://www.mdsbattery.co.uk/ rather than directly at APC - who charge 2-3 times more for the same cells in their...

In experimenting with overclocking a new system, I've noticed that the CPU temperature displayed varies very quickly with load. Running orthos gets the temp (displayed by PC Probe II) up to 129F within a few minutes. Stopping orthos results in the temp dropping within seconds to less than 100F....

Hi, I have the ASUS A7N8X-X mobo which has 2 IDE ports (like most others do). My present configuration is like so: 2 HDD's connected to IDE 1 as master and slave, DVD witer connected to IDE2, then a SCSI CDR writer to a SCSI adapter. I have a small IDE HDD , 8.4Gb, which I would like to add to the...

This is off topic but I'm looking for help in saving audio cassette music that I can burn onto CD's. I can play them via Line In on my sound card but not having luck in finding and saving them. Can someone recommend a group where I might find some help ?

Can anyone tell me if I can plug a fax machine and seperate phone into a phone outlet using an adapter at the same time and have them both work (of course not at the same time) or must they be switched in and out individually as required?

Hi, I have a dual Xeon Windows XP Pro machine with hyperthreading enabled. I run an application that is specifically designed to run on a dual processor machine. When I run the application and look at the performance graphs in the task manager, it says I'm only using 50% of my cpu resources. ...

I have an elderly relative who is not computer literate and used a "Mail Station" for several years to send EMail. This is a device that allows one to send and receive EMail over the phone lines. It looks like a very small lap top but has no computer functions other than EMail. Her unit recently...

I'm confused - just bought a new PC based on AMD 64X2 4400+. Its mounted in a MSI K8N Neo motherboard, with a Gig of RAM. If I log in with the first user account I created in Windows XP the CPU speed is correctly reported (by "My Computer"/Properties. MSI's Core application and CPU-Z as 2200...

I have an E-Machines T2742 that will not power up after last shutdown. I changed the power supply and checked out the front panel push button switch. Is there a relay or something on the main board that controls that function that I would be able to change?

I bought 3 Logilink IDE to SATA converters from ebay, and after having tried one, it doesn't appear to work at all The drive I plugged the converter card into was my Hitachi 160Gb Primary Slave drive. I connected the SATA cables then booted up the machine , but the said drive was now not...

I thought that it was a zif connector or type of, but after looking at other zif connectors, molex type, I am now not so sure. It's on a Compaq CQ60 laptop, and there is or will be a power ribbon coming from underneath the facia and fastens to the connector in the picture. The connector has a...

The FX5200 is a low-end DX9 card, but it may lack enough raw power to run DX9 features. The 4200 is from the previous generation; it's pretty fast (and sometimes overclockable to near spec 4600 performance levels). It's DX8 only. You don't mention your CPU/RAM, so I can't guess whether your card...

I recently installed a new Toshiba SD-R5372 DVD R/W drive for my Win XP (sp 2) computer and switched the existing Mitsumi CR-485GTE CD R/W drive to be the slave drive. Both drives seem to be working okay. I also installed Roxio's Easy Media Creator 7 (with the Dec 14 update)...

I've got an older 200 MHz computer that I keep in a vacation home that my wife and I use occasionally. Large MS Word files with tables are hard to edit and scroll very slowly.. I know the computer is slow but could I improve things by adding a newer video card? The current card is an ATI Mach...

I'm trying to install a 5.25" 1.2 meg floppy drive in a PC but cannot get it to work with the existing 3.25" 1.44 meg floppy drive. I've tried every combination in the bios that I can think of but so far no joy. Can someone point me to some online information on installing floppy drives? Thanks...

I bought a 8 GB thumb drive and am finding that data becomes corrupted when more than 1 GB is stored. If there is less than 1 GB of data stored, it works fine. And it also works fine if I copy more than 1 GB of data onto the drive until I remove the drive from the USB port. After the drive is...

I installed a new Toshiba DVD R/W drive on my Win XP, sp 2 computer and am having trouble having the computer assign drive letters the way I want. Prior to the new DVD drive, a Mitsumi CD R/W drive and a SanDisk memory card reader were installed and were assigned D: and E: respectively. During...