Hi, I am having a hard time installing Win XP on my computer. It boots from CD and after I choose the selection, the system hangs at "Press any key to boot from CD" screen. The system is ASUS CUSI-M motherboard Celeron 1.1GHz

Hi, My old MB corroded and I put in a new one. This is the first time I've done this, but I think I connected everything correctly. The first time I started up the computer, everything turned on, but I got no picture on my monitor. The second time I turned it on, everything worked fine--monitor...

What would be the better buy for a gaming enthusiast who can't afford a really good card - a GeForce4 Ti4200/64MB 8x or an FX5200/128MB (plain or ultra) at approximately the same price ? Would the difference be quite noticeable in actual usage ? In what way would the non-DirectX 9 compliance of...

I build a computer for christimas and I still haven't got it working to the way it should be. The computer runs slow at just about everything. It will freeze up during games and the hard drive lights will come on and stay on. I have all of the latest drivers for everything. I also found out a...

I have a question. I recently went to visit a pc repair shop. I was there about a job but thats a different story. I was told something about cables and drives. I cant remember exactly.

I bought a new SATA hard drive a couple of weeks ago -- and I've been trying to install it since. It's a Maxtor 250Gb SATA drive (the one with a 16Mb buffer). It works fine as a slave drive to my old (PATA) drive but whenever I disconnect my old drive and try to do a fresh install of Windows (XP,...

So I'm playing a little game this afternoon (World of Warcraft if you must know) and all of a sudden withut warning or anything my computer shuts off. No power. I push the power button; Nothing. Nada. I begin to become a bit concerned. I assumed it was the PSU (ThermalTake Purepower 420W,...

Using windows 95, I know, I know but the customer don't want to upgrade now. The problem is that he bought a USB printer as he have USB ports on his IBM machine but windows 95 as OS As far as I know, win 95 didn't know about USB but in the devices manager, I see that he have a USB hub root...

My aunt's second hard drive died. It has all her data. The system boots okay using the first hard drive where the OS was installed. Yeah, she's one of those typical users that never backup anything and thinks hard drives last forever. The second hard drive is a Maxtor 40GB (I won't know the...

I need to get 512mb sticks of 3.3V, unbufferered SDRAMS, and have the opportunity to pick up some from "Viking Components". But the only info I could get is the following: PC133 Compliant 98407760 512MB PC133 NON-ECC CL3 DIMM Can anyone tell me if this is unbuffered?

I'm running an old 450MHz CPU on an Asus P2B motherboard. Up until today the computer was working fine. I just got back from my Christmas holiday, during which I left the computer unplugged while I was away - about 10 days. I also turned off the heating in my place as well - so the apartment got...

This is the first time I am trying to build a computer. This computer would serve as my backup computer just in case my main computer goes down or dies -- mostly spreadsheet, word processing, email and internet. I was given an Asus P5A motherboard with an AMD-K6-2/500AFX CPU. And I have most of...

Hi, When I boot up my system and then connect via my dial-up connection there is no problem. The problem occurs after I have disconnected and then want to connect again later. Each time I get an error message ERROR MESSAGE 676 THE PHONE LINE IS BUSY The phone is not busy and the only way to get...

Subject says it all. I hadn't really planned on buying a new power supply (I currently own a 420W semi-generic), but when I think about the 6800 Ultra's original recommended wattage, plus the fact that I'll be trying to overclock the Ultra, ram and cpu, I begin to suspect that I may need something...

Hi, I have a wiring loom with at least 25 wires, and I need to check voltages on each of them. They all terminiate into a couple of plugs, in which the pin sockets are far too small to get a mulimeter probe into. It's simply not practical to cut each one, test, and re-solder (not to mention...

http://www.newegg.com/app/viewProductDesc.asp?description=11-144-089&depa=0 Doesnt look to bad. Nice ampers on the rails too. Love the looks and design of the case. What do you guys think?

I have a computer that is running Win XP-Pro. The other day I installed Framework 1.1 with its upgrade. This had to be done in order to use an interface software for an external scientific calculator for the machine. It is the TI Voyager 200, that I have to interface with the computers...

How fast dus a CD-rom turn ? And suppose that a 1 speed CD-player turns (just as example) 100 rounds a minute. Is a doubles speed player then turns 200 rounds and a 48 speed 4800 rounds a minute ?

I have started to use my computer a lot lately, more than usual and noticed it crashes now and again for no reason. I have tried everything to clean it up but it still occurs. I thought maybe it could be down to the constant use being an issue with the processor. How can you tell if the processor...

Just want to know if anyone has one of these 100+ cfm sunon or panaflo fans. I'd like to know how loud exactly they can be a full speed and how quite and performing they can be at minimum revs. My application is to cool a watercooling HW Labs xtreme radiator. I went watercooling to have a dead...