System AMD 2000+ A7M266 MB 1 GB PC 2100 Ram Geforce 4 ti4600 128 Meg Video Card. SB Live 5.1 Plat Western Digital HD 100 GB 8mg Buffer I just installed the new HD. I did a clean install of the Windows XP home

"Brian" wrote in message ... I use my computer mainly for games and the internet, but recently it clearly isn't fast enough for the newer games (it's also been crashing a lot and I've spent so many hours trying to...

I have a Win-XP PC based on a soyo mb and an athlon 1.33 processor. It has been running fine for about 2 years. This past week, it began doing stop/system dumps and, at times, just rebooting. The system also is now prone to freezing up at times throughout the day. Here is what I have looked...

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Not really, unless you buy a Dell. It's a restore cd that OEMer's send with their systems. Even if you could get it working in another pc you wouldn't be able to activate it.

Hey! It's time to retire my SB Live Value...so which card should I get? Creative Audigy or Turte Beach Santa Cruz? Newegg is offering the Santa Cruz for 40 bucks right now....Audigy is 60ish. Faustus Dave King -- Faustus

Boba & Ilinka wrote: For home use (E-mail, surf a net, spread ****, word processing) are there any sense to switch to Linux? What is good site to download Linux? On existing hard drive could I add additional partition without erasing existing data? Any comment welcome. Boba...

STRYDENT do an inksaver program http://www.strydent.com Has anyone here tried it? My printer isn't all that good and needs replacing so I can't really test it yet. I got an E-mail from ACCSEE who send me mails on

In the manual for the Biostar M7VKQ. PRO, it doesn't tell what the max Mhz speed is. The biggest one in a bundle was an XP2100 or 2200+. If anyones gotten a bigger one working that would be great to know. Otherwise I'll put a 2100+ in it. _________________________ When your PC gives a little they...

My father in law's pc got drowned during some recent flooding in Florida. It's a mini-tower & roughly the bottom half of the case was under water. I'm thinking that taking it apart, washing all the boards in warm water with a mild detergent, rinsing in distilled water & letting it air dry for a...

problem not resolved. :( here is a re-post (four posts total): the first post: hi. my system specs are as follows: intel p4 2.53ghz 1024mb ram DDR333/PC2700 ati radeon 9700pro (agp)

Sorry to cross post; this ended up in the wrong newsgroup. I have a AMD Athelon XP 2400+ on an EP-8RGA+ board with Kingston PC2700 RAM (2 x 256). When I first assembled the machine I set FBS = 166 and dropped the multiplier from 14.5 to 11.5 as suggested by Bas Ruiter here to avoid overclocking...

I'm building my first homebuilt PC and having trouble figuring out the front panel connectors. The instructions in the ANTEC SLK3700AMB case manual say the reset switch connector connects to the motherboard with "the label facing the front of the case, and for all of the following connectors...

On Sat, 26 Jul 2003 17:44:38 +0200, wrote: Anybody who has an Aopen HQ45 or HQ48 Pro case and could tell if this case has any airholes in the sidepanels or something. On the picture here http://www.aopen.com/products/housing/phq45pro.htm it seems there are no...

Does defragging a drive, which actually is a RAID 0 setup consisting of two HDDs, work? I defragged last week my RAID 0 drive and basically things got ugly after that - Windows files corrupted, BIOS changed, etc. ~ Adrian ~ --- "If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars." J....

Has anyone built a PC using this motherboard? I'd just like to compare specs. and ask a few questions regarding fan selection, out of the newsgroups if possible. Thanks. ~ Adrian ~ --- "A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on." Sir Winston Churchill...

Consumer put me in my place by writing A while back, I acquired a 10 GB Western Digital harddrive. It appeared to be functioning very well, but I tried it today and the BIOS doesn't even identify it! Sometimes I see the light turn on and I've tried booting ten times (warm and cold). I...

Hi, I just purchased a used HP Visualize x550 workstation running 2 Xeon PIII 550's/512Mb/9.1Gig Cheetah scsi etc. As this was a used computer it was sold clean, without any OS onboard. I am using the machine primarily for digital audio/video apps and wish to use Win XP. Upon installing XP...

"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...

OK, I just stopped by to ask this... Can a low temperature damage my HDD? I have a Maxtor 60GB 7200rpm HDD and, well, its temperature really tends to get very high, even with an open computer case (you can barely touch it, it's about 60 C, I guess). Since all my other components also need a lot of...