I've just been moving an old motherboard into a old case for a friend (as I like my case) and stupidly I didn't remember where those annoying little cables that power the lights and buttons fixed in. Is this standard, if so where do they go?

What can I do to quiet the fan noise in my PC? I've got an AMD 4800, Asus board, and Lan Boy case. Maybe a Zalman water cooler? Thanks for any ideas.

Here's what I'm looking to purchase. I'm hoping for some feedback in case there are any glaring incompatibilities or omissions that I've overlooked. Also, I have a few questions toward the end. M/B: EPOX EP-9NPA+ ULTRA nVIDIA nFORCE4 ULTRA CHIPSET SERIAL ATA300 ATX FORM FACTOR...

I am going to be building my first computer since I put together an old 486 year and years ago. This is for a general purpose home office PC that will be used for just about everything: financial number crunching/graphing, photo editing, audio recording/editing, some gaming (perhaps more with new...

I have a Fortron 350w PSU that's a few years old and recently the fan has started making this weird mechanical noise. I tried taking it apart, but there's no way the fan can be removed. I tried lowering the speed of the fan, but that didn't help. Would it be advisable to maybe try to carefully...

I lost a PSU in a system that I built about a year ago. The stock PSU came with the case and is some cheap "450 watt" Asian brand (Okia?). This is a P4 powered system based on an Asus P4GE-MX mobo. The PSU was making some fan noise over the past couple of weeks. At any rate, I started a download...

My pc is turning itself off. system temp: 37 celsius Cpu temp: 88 celsius Cpu fan: 4115 rpm system fan 2712 Ist this normal for gigabit 2600 that is not overclocked?

I recently bought a second XFX 7800 GT Card for my rig. Since I enabled SLI I have not been able to see my BIOS screen unless I take out one of my 7800 GT's. This is very frustrating. I am running an A8N32 SLI Deluxe Mother Board with 2GB of Mem. My monitor is a 5 Year old Dell 17inch LCD. I am...

Decided to splash out on a decent 19" screen - but which one? Not a gamer but would like a very good screen...cost no object (within reason). The ones I have in short list at the mo a- NEC 1970NX Viewsonic VP 930 Iiyama Prolite ...any thoughts on those or any others appreciated. Thanks.

I have just noticed several directories in the root directory of C: drive. I checked the names with Google and the ones I've checked are all apparently valid directories used by windows XP or installed programs. I have just had a low disk space warning and rebooted and cleaned up the C: drive....

whats the difference between the two i want to be able to certain files that go to the folders that i change on a regular basis, also i want to back up files that i add to the folders

I have 2 x 512mb Kingston memory, XP Pro, AMD 64 3700+, 2 fast drives and AIT AIW 9800 pro I have captured in MPEG2 format and will need to convert these to DVD format (i.e. VOB files etc.) Will I benefit from more memory? Also, what are the advantages of going over 1gb of memory?

Here goes muttin?...my HP Pavilion zv5000us series laptop took some spills....and well, it's power jack is jacked. I and my two hands of thumbs attempted to fix it cuz, "I can fix it". After about ten complete dismantle or disassemblies later, I have this....a led "charge" light that works great...

"Skybuck Flying" wrote in message ... Hello, I came across this fix in the past I think but I didn't try it... maybe because I didn't believe it would work... or maybe because I didn't wanna loose any memory/gigabytes....

(A) Is there any consistency in where various motherboards have their "system" or "case" temperature probe ... the one read by the mobo maker's software ... or by programs like Mother Board Monitor or SpeedFan ? (B) Is this a reading of the chipset (not the CPU) temperature ever given...

I have an ABIT KV7 mobo and the northbridge fan has gone out. I've been looking around for a replacement, and can't find an online store that sells them. Then I found this link: http://www.short-media.com/review.php?r=153&p=4 and this seems to say you CAN'T buy a replacement fan for it! Can anyone...

Here is some info on my comp before I list some temps Windows XP Home Edition 5.1.2600 CPU Type AMD Athlon 64 3500+ MB Asus A8S-X (3 PCI, 2 PCI-E x1, 1 PCI-E x16, 4 DDR DIMM) MB Chipset SiS 756, AMD Hammer RAM 1024 MB (PC3200 DDR SDRAM) Video Card NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GS(256 MB) Monitor Proview...

Hi again guys!!! My nephew wants me to build him a gaming computer. I thought you guys could get us going in the right direction. I'm out of touch with the latest and greatest items so I need help. I know you guys will come up with better items with lower prices, especially since I don't think...

My current system is getting long in tooth. I built it 4 years ago and it has done very well. I'm ready to get a new system and I'm not sure if I should go with a Dell or build another. The Dell's are very low cost, reliable, and quiet these days. I'm looking for a _quiet_ machine with ports on...

I have a 2 boxes containing 3 pcs of WinXP Home and Pro each - brand new and sealed. They are marked as "to be sold only with a new PC". Is it OK to sell these at eBay with a piece of internal hardware such as cable etc? Any guidance will help. Thanks Reply email is valid.