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I just built a PC last night, and I powered it up this morning for the first time. The bios recognizes the HDD as 80GB, but when I run FDISK to create the primary partition, it thinks there's only 10GB available. I've used Win98 to format 20GB drives before, but never one this large. Is the HDD...

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WinXP Home My daughter is experiencing unexplainable blue screen crashes and the machine automatically reboots. The error message is not on for long enough to read it, but she did catch a glimpse of part of the message, "machine_check_exception" ..................... There is no pattern to what...

X-No-Archive: yes Just upgraded my processor from a P4 1.7 - P4 3.06ghz. The problem is Windows 98 SE always locks up at the same point at the start. I established that the system is stable by putting windows XP on an external hard drive and running PRIME95 & MEMTEST. Both ran fine for hours...

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Hi, Can anyone guide me to find information on the meaning behind these alphabets, 2.8A, 2.8B, 2.8C and 2.8E? I could not find it in the Intel web site. If 'E' represents the latest/ bug fixed version and 1000KB cache, why is 2.8C (512KB cache) CPU be the most expensive among all in the...

Richard Shim, Michael Kanellos and Evan Hansen wrote for CNET News.com on April 21, 2004 that China is softening efforts to establish its own Wi-Fi security standard and will adopt stringent new piracy prevention policies. According to sources close to the negotiations, China agreed that it will...

Hi All, I am considering a design for a embedded Intel Pentium M processor (1.1GHz) and am looking for compact chipsets that will do the job. I have looked into SIS (661FX) and VIA (VT8606 Twister T) chipsets that I may be able to use but cannot get hold of datasheets and app notes associated...

Found the following availability matrix of Microsoft software for 64-bit. It includes both Itanium and x64 software. http://blogs.msdn.com/draper/archive/2004/04/21/117517.aspx Yousuf Khan -- Humans: contact me at ykhan at rogers dot com Spambots: just send mail to above address ;-)

Do I need to reinstall the win2k server if I upgrade from Celeron 2G to Northwood or Prescott P4 ?

Hello All, I have recently downloaded the Intel CPP compilter (version 8) for linux and think I have it set up correctly. The only question I have is with the include files.... do I need to set any sort of environment variable (C_INCLUDE_PATH, or CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH) so that it searches...

I have been messing with the cooling on my system. I have an option to put a fan in the top of my coolermaster case. Do I want to use it as an intake or exhaust? Open to suggestions from the bright minds here :o) thanks..

Hi all..took off my stock intel fan and heatsink , went with a Zalman-CNPS7000A-AlCu. I used the thermal paste provided with the zalman unit. My temps are a little higher now. Idle is 44, 37, 38. 44 in cpu zone. Fan at around 2400rpm. Under load after running some games my cpu zone was around 50c....

I download a patch for my motherboard system bios from Intel only to find the .bio file has an "(H48): Invlalid reserved string in the flash image header". My motherboard id SE440BX-2 the BIOS version is AS4EB2X0.05A.0006.P05 (The latest is a P17) needless to say I'd like to update the system bios...

Mike Clendenin and Patrick Mannion reported on April 19, 2004 from Taipei, Taiwan for EE Times that China and the United States will face each other on Wednesday for the annual U.S.-China Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade. For the technology community, the meeting will show clashes between...

My next door neighbor built a system with this motherboard and now after a few months of use, the computer all of a sudden will not post. After some troubleshooting, we discoved that the PS2 port was causing the computer to hang. Afet he took the little usb-ps2 adapter off of his mouse and just...

I have a D865GBF motherboard with latest BIOS (P15) that will not resume when I use the OS shutdown to turn off the box. The green led light is on, and the etherent port lights are on, so I know the mobo is getting power, but I can't figure out what to do to get it to restart. Even with the...

Okay, I know it isn't the approved and validated combination. I just need a sanity check before I resort to buying an SR2300. I picked up a new SR2200 chassis with a single 350W PSU. I've also got two SE7500WV2 boards, one SCSI (slightly used) one ATA (new), a 2.2GHz Xeon (SL624), and 1GB of...

I have a Intel d865perl motherboard. It had P12 bios. I tried flashing it to P15. After I flashed it the system wouldn't boot. So I downloaded the recover bios P15. I did what is said (popped the case and took the jumper off and let the computer read the 3 1/2 floppy. It fixed itself. I thought it...