I have a friend. He is trying to get an Ethernet adapter to work with his old machine. He says that he has 98 but he needs 98 second version. I assume that means SP2 for 98. The computer works "fine" with AOL, but he wants to use broadband. Is there a way I could download SP2 and put it on a...

I feel a slight current when I touch the back of my casing or harddisk when the system is on. Is this dangerous or damaging for the motherboard/system? How can I rectify this problem? thx.

Hi there, I have a PC built for me, and I installed Windows XP SP2 on it. I presume I need to put a firewall and antivirus on it to ward off worms and viruses. I am more concerned about the firewall. I installed ZoneAlarm Free Edition, and it worked al'right. However, it always bothered me by...

I see in the manual for my new motherboard - an MSI K8N Neo - it says to remove the power cord when inserting and removing cards and DIMMs. Is this good advice or excessive caution? With my current board I never did that. -- Derek

Hi Everyone. We had lightning hit across the street from us and my PC got zapped along with other items in the house. Yes, I had two surge suppressors to no avail. My home built PC is running a Intel D915GEV MB with four WD 250GB hard drives and a PCI-E ATI All In Wonder video card. The PCI-E...

The following is my first home built system (proposed): Goals: Home theater, versatility, fast, quiet. Budget: $2000 $80 Full Tower Case http://www.directron.com/ma01bd.html Black is awesome. Full tower allows me to put this on the floor next to my digital piano (Clavinova CVP 109) and have...

I got my resolution AS high as possible right now. I read/heard the higher the resolution, you get a drop in performance? 1280 X 1024 right now, what's a good one for performance? Or does it matter????????

There has been quite a bit of press regarding the Intel dual core CPUs. Are they available to the Build It Yourself market yet? Any ideas regarding the subject?

I know what it is, but do they have a registration number or code so it's legal and I can get updates from MicroSoft? I'm building a second machine and I assume if I use my registered copy of WinXP from my first build, on a second machine, I won't be able to get updates.

Windows XP Home (SP1) I originally had and still have a 15 GB HD, using NTFS, which had the OS and everything else on it. I just installed a Maxtor 80 GB DiamondMax Plus 9 Model 6Y080P0 ,which has a 5 MB Buffer, configured (with the jumpers on the back) as a slave. It shows up Computer Management...

I recently upgraded my system and now have a new AMD Athlon 64 3200+ on a new ASUS K8V SE Deluxe mobo, with a new Enermax 470W "Noisetaker" PSU. Ambient temps have been consistenly in the 65-75F range, and for the couple of weeks I've had the new hardware running, the mobo and CPU temps have been...

Can someone give me an idea of what the minimum hardware requirements are for a PC that will be used mostly for internet, as well as playing DVDs? (I have a 900Mhz, 512mb XP system). I ask because the system I've been using gets progressively more sluggish after a reformat and re-install. There...

Anyone who's built an AMD64 system might be interested to know you can now get a trial 64bit copy of WinXP from this site: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/64bit/downloads/upgrade.asp

File attributes: Date Last Saved 13/11/23 Date Created 13/11/24 That's one thing Windows has always done wrong and always will.

Hello, This morning I turned on my computer, then walked away... and then as I was away I noticed how the graphics cards fan kept spinning at top speed. I thought something must be wrong because normally they spindle down... after boot. And indeed something was wrong... the screen did not come...

On Thu, 08 Jul 2004 15:47:28 +0100, Lem wrote: snip Am I being too complacent? I've never used one. I've never had a surge blow anything either. My next door neigbour as one for her PC, but makes SFA difference. Of

Hi, Having had such great replies about which processor to buy, now is my chance to ask about which motherboard. I've decided to get a Pentium 4 3.0E Ghz 800Mhz Prescott CPU, but my supplier (who will be doing the actual system build) has loads of P4 motherboards. I've narrowed it down to these...

I switch off my computer twice a day or so because I do not use it for many hours and would do well to save the electricity. I opted for a fast computer with a huge display instead of one I could just leave on. Anyhow, I know how much a computer costs me per day so let's not argue over it, because...

Right now I've got my case fan sucking cool air into my case from the back and passing it over the CPU. I set it up this way because the power supply is blowing warm out out the back of the case. I'm wondering which is better, having a case fan suck in cool air, or blow out hot air? The fan is...

Is there any need for a floppy drive in a new system? If, for example, I were to use an Intel mb that has its drivers on a floppy, as I have heard that the DP35DPM does (go figure!), what would the workaround be? USB? CD? I figure I would rather not put in the extra cable if it is not needed....