Considering the fact a mainboard is a very complex part of a computer that you would want to know is factory fresh, how come mainboard boxes are not factory sealed? If that's because configuring has to be done after the factory, how come the company that configures the thing does not seal the...

"SHRED" wrote in message news:mT9Yg.1307$rS.73@fed1read05... Is it best to have the 2 hard drives on a cable (master/slave) or split them and run one cable with the hard drive and the CD burner (master/slave)? keep HDs on one and CD/DVDs on the other, don't mix.

Last week my computer stopped POSTing. I pulled all the cards, drives, etc and tried to boot the sytem with just cpu,ram,PCI video, and mainboard to no avail. So, thinking it was the motherboard, I pulled out the cpu (pentium 4 northwood 2.4GHz) and popped it into a known working system. The chip...

Ok, so I have a custom built computer that has always worked great until today. Problem description is below. Here are the specs: AMD Athlon 64 3700+ Asus A8N-SLI Nvidia 6800GS 1GB (2x512) DDR400 2 internal Maxtor SATA drives (200GB+250GB), 1 external Maxtor USB drive (250GB) 500w or 550w (can't...

I had need to upgrade my old motherboard/cpu for a processor with the SSE2 instruction set and I didn't want to upgrade my AGP card for a PCIe card (which greatly limited my mobo choices). Old CPU: Athlon XP 2800+ Old Mobo: MSI KT6 Delta New CPU: Pentium D 915 (2.8 GHz) New Mobo: ECS P4M800PRO-M

Hi, is it possible to exclude items from the USB removal icon in the system tray. At the moment I can stop the SATA2 hard disc and the motherboard on-board WiFi I would prefer that these don't show of a family member might accidentally remove them when trying to eject a memory stick.

I am in process of upgrading from and AMD 64 and an MIS board to a 745( D , Core2 duo). right now I run an ATI 9800 pro 128MB and I wonder, SHOULD I just go with a PCI-Ecard? What I am asking is this..how much better is a low end PCI-E card than the 9800 pro that I have now? Can someone outline...

The +5 V on my Antec P/S (TruePower 380W) had been operating fine (4.8 - 4.9), but over the last few months it has slowly stepped down, and now remains, in the low 4.5 V range. Is this normal or has the P/S gone bad? I previously owned an Enermax 300W P/S, with the same hardware components, that...

I updated my nvidia amd nforce drivers with 6.86 nforce winxp international. The nvidia ide driver didnt install properly and now I have the microsoft ide and the nvidia sata. I tried to remove and reinstall but I got unsigned nv ide drivers. How do I install the newer nv ide driver? Thanks

I desire to upgrade my system to one that uses the AMD Athlon 64 Dual Core CPU. I see that most motherboards now use the SATA hard drive technology. As my present system contains an IDE drive that I would prefer to maintain, I am asking if there is such an item as a motherboard that accepts...

I have a Dell Dimension 5000 and Logitech cordless mouse & keyboard everything was working fine untill i moved the computer from one room to another. Since moving the computer to another room and plugging it back in, the keyboard and mouse do not work. The machine switches on then ask for you to...

Microsoft has announced their Licensing terms for Vista, which are VERY different than for XP. Users will be very limited in their ability to ever transfer Vista to a different computer. Read about it he http://www.techweb.com/wire/software/193300234 -- DaveW ----------------

Hello, My PC recently had a spy ware problem so I reformatted the drive and reinstalled everything. (OS and applications) After reinstalling the computer worked fine for about 3 days, then one day it went crazy! The CD-Rom door stared opening and closing and then the mouse froze. So I...

I have two very small, old hard drives, that I would like to put to a different purpose. The drives are both 1.4 gigs and have mutiple partitions (they are old - 1.4 gigs was a lot when these drives were in their prime). When used together the drive can boot up into dos, Win3.1 etc allowing...

Will the newer socket 478 Prescott/Celeron D boards support the older Northwood CPUs? I have a 2.4GHz Northwood chip that I purchased about 3 years ago. Thanks, Sarah

Hi, desktop icon text readability!! I have asked in the XP newsgroup but no has been able to help. I wonder if anyone here can help? The text under the icons on my brand new Win XP system are difficult to read.

Please help I cant figure out where this clicking noise is coming from.I switched cases this last weekend (because of a power supply and i needed a new case) and it didn't click before.It has begun clicking only every once in a while maybe once a day for about 5 clicks then a couple more. It almost...

I got Compro DVB-T300 PCI digital TV card. She has problem with CPU utilization but it be working. The PC she has P4 1.8Ghz, 1Gb RAM, Audigy2, GeForce3, the HDD be RAID 0 configuration. She has 60%-70% utilization when TV card is running. My wonderment festoons about this being normal? Gracious...

They are quite easily replaced, I would advise to get one with power rating or Wattage equal to or more than the one you are replacing. Supposing its a 300 watt PSU and you replaced it with a 400 Watt unit. The 400 Watt unit would not draw any more power than the 300 Watt, being a higher rating...

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