"Replacing x86 firmware with Linux and Go" http://www.osnews.com/comments/30097 "The Intel Management Engine (ME), which is a separate processor and operating system running outside of user control on most x86 systems, has long been of concern to users who are security and privacy...

Hi there, I have used a number of Radeon AIW cards for capturing video from both analogue & digital inputs. However, I now need a faster graphics card and since ATI no longer manufacture AIW cards, I need an alternative. The grahics card itself is no problem. I intend to get a Radeon 4850 or...

Hello, This websites/review of the speakers/satelites of the surround sound system gigaworks s750 mentions "polarity" and "phase". There are two wires for each speaker/satelite. One wire is "marked" with a red ring around it. I remember one red ring got lost... so I am not sure if I reconnected...

I have a laptop (Toshiba) in which one of the USB ports seems to be dead. Do USB ports can go independently bad or could it be a Windows 7 issue like a driver or such? I don't see any exclamation marks in the device manager. mac

I ordered the MB, two sticks of DDR3 RAM, and an AMD Phenom II X4 965. I put it together using the case, HDDs, and DVD drives that I currently have. When I fired it up, I did not reinstall XP because I wanted to see what it would do. Surprisingly, XP came up and changed a lot of...

Soyo Dragon2 KT880 Motherboard, Socket A, W/ WinXP SP3: Will this recognize drives over 137 without any fuss? What about SATA drives if it has always had IDE (the board does have SATA, but it's never been used)... will the controllers/drivers and such be there if I just go to BIOS and tell it...

Hello! I am thinking of replacing my current motherboard, CPU, RAM, etc. to an Intel i7 950 CPU, its motherboard, and new RAM. I am still going to use my old, updated Windows XP Pro. SP3 (don't need 64-bit and newer Windows at this time since my old softwares still work). Is this going to be...

Once or twice I've got away with splicing the extra 4 pin connector onto the existing wires - so why not just patch wire the extra pins on the print side of the MOBO? I did have a spare 24 pin PSU - but it looks like some inconsiderate git has 'borrowed' it!

Since we now have pc's that can boot off of anything and in addition we have SSD drives and all sorts of other choices... why can't Microsoft make an OS and an appropriate drive that would be immune to any type of malware infection? You could have a read-only boot drive dedicated to the OS. The...

Hello, Here a little update on my DreamPC of 2006. Today I decided to close the last two holes of the case as well. (I had a rare system freeze/**** up the other day during Civ3Conquest, probably heat-related? or maybe GSM related ? radio interference ?) I did this so the motherboard...

Kicked back on the couch just now, put my laptop on my knee .... started surfin they HEEELLL!!!! Thats hot! Seems like for some reason the CPU cooling fan has stopped working. At that point the Laptop died. I took the CPU cover off and found the fan - still spins freely when tried - but I guess...

=A1Hola! I own a Socket-7 MoBo (GA-586VX). Once upon a time I had to replace a quality CPU fan/heatsink-combo having a metal clamp by a replacement combo. That replacement incorporated a plastik-clamp. It required a lot of sheere force to be applied to the socket. Now -- wanting to replace the...

Hi - my system refuses to run unless I disable level 1 & 2 cache in the BIOS I have an ECS P4VMM2 and P4 1.7 Ghz The system fails straight after POST unless I disable the cache and then it seems it behave itself, albeit extremely slowly. I think its a CPU related issue but would be glad of a...

Hello, I'm in the early stages of choosing components for a new PC. First I've chosen a Vantec power supply because there're the ONLY make that I've seen with a AC outlet on the back of the PSU (which is very important to me). (The model I'm referring to is Vantec ION 400W ATX). My question is:-...

I am building a HTPC, and I am starting to think that I should have planned ahead better. It's a microATX mobo, so it's only got 2 PCI slots, and now I'm wondering if I'll need more. So far, my Winfast TV IN card is using one of the PCI slots. I'll be getting an AGP video card for the TV OUT, so...

I got a PC here which refuses to show signal on monitor, mate says his kids flicked the voltage switch on the back of the PSU, down to 130v with out him knowing and when he switched it on there was a slight pop, I open up the PSU and the SM fuse has blown, so I stuck in another PSU and powered it...

My computer is an AMD Athlon Thunderbird 1333Mhz motherboard is m830lr with sis735 chipset I was using my computer and it froze up. So I turned it off and went about doing other things. When I tried to start it, the next day, I hit the power button and nothing comes up on the screen. The monitor...

my current rig: Asus P4S533 M/B, P4 , 1 gig ram, GF4200Ti (o/c 275 core, 550 mem) I'm thinking of an ATI 9800 pro or should I wait for the Nvidia 6600 (will it be available in AGP?). TIA

Okay, I know this isn't the most appropriate group for this, but I AM a homebuilder, and some of the OS newsgroups are brutal. I've been using MSN access for about 6 months. In the past month or two, I've noticed I am losing connection to the net. At first it happened maybe once in a 3 hours...

"Kevin Weinrich" wrote in message ... Does anyone know who sells the new(?) Biostar M7NCG Pro motherboard? I've seen reviews, but know of no vendors. Thanks, Newegg just lowered the price $5 to $99...