if i were to build a new machine with pci-express only, would it play my agp game: pro evolution soccer 2005? also am i right in thinking that pci-express is going to be the new standard graphics interface instead of agp? i don't play a great deal of games but i still fancy building a pc that is...

I have bought a new Seagate SATA drive as my system was very slow due to hard drive problem. However, I want to continue using the older hard drive as a additional storage. I installed windows on the SATA drive and both are connected as masters. But the startup is still slow as it takes time to...

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hey all.. I installed a SIIG 4 port USB bay hub in the pc's 3.5 internal device bay. problem. the hub is not very well secured in the bay. it slides back inside the pc if I push in a usb connector in. and due to the way its designed, only 2 (rear of the bay) of the 4 screws can be used. any...

A 2400 socet A system came to me with mega problems, turned out to be the HS fan not running making the AK77-600GN board shut down all at 59 deg C. I got it to work pretty well in most areas except for picture intensive and video of games refusing to work (usually locks up) unless the hardware...

Hi everyone... I'm planning to build a computer from scratch... I need first to select the mainboard, processor, etc. But I need some help... First I was thinking in building a computer with improvement options... I mean, that it can be at least a little bit upgradable... I was thinking in the...

Hi, I'm currently working on some CPU intensive experiments and as such am in the market for a new PC that will deliver the most CPU performance for my budget. In addition I would like to keep the electrical power consumption and noise to a minimum also, so no power hungry 3D graphics is...

Has anybody installed a quiet fan for AMD Athlon 64 3700+ ?? I'm looking at several, and I would like to use a flat fan instead of one of the standup fans like the Artic Freezer 64 Pro. I don't think that would fit my case, but not sure. I'm also looking at the Artic Silencer 64 which is a flat...

I have an epox EP9NPA+ultra and I finally figured out why my computer is driving me nuts. The chipset fan is the most obnoxious annoying noisy thing i've ever heard. Anybody ever replaced one of these, is there a more quiet alternative? Thanks.

OK, here's another one. My mother board will only support 266FSB however I have updated the BIOS. I have previously asked what would be better, a used Athlon Socket A, or a new Duron Socket A. But, I notice I can get a Sempron socket A for ten dollars more. The sempron is a 333 FSB however. Can...

I hope you good people can help... I have a PC that keeps restarting and I can't figure out why. Here are some of the computer's details; It mostly restarts when playing a high-end 3d game like Battlefield 2 or CounterStrike. I installed two more fans thinking that it's just getting hot. It...

Howdy: I've tried pretty near every way imaginable to install the drives for this darn card. Had to re-install the OS now Windows 98 won't run this NIC card. It should up in device manager and I've download the drivers from the D-Link web site (serveral times!) and it goes through the rig-a-ma-roll...

Dear ALL, How are You? My problem start this way,When I restore my computer with my new ghost Image,WinXp for my own back-up.Its done and everything is fine during restoring my new image.When I see my personal files in drive D: its already lost my data,I have two drives which is drive C: and...

Does anyone build stethoscopes for PCs? You know, the kind of gadget with a kind of long wand that you can point at a specific part of a machine in order to hear the sound made by that part, and that part alone. I've seen such things used for engines and other large machines, but presumably...

My PC is not a home-brew, but it's probably about to be! ;-) I'm using a Dell Dimension 8200 that's about 3 years old. I moved from Missouri to South Carolina back in October 2005. Since then, my system has crashed 3 times, all three times due to some kind of hard drive corruption. It's the same...

I rebooted my AMD computer today and the disk error checking routine on startup took unusually long. Windows W2K started fine. I then shut off my computer to move it and when I turned it back on the Bios could not auto detect my IDE HD. I got into the bios and tried the auto option and eventually...

Hi, My system configuration is E-sys motherboard with 845GV chipset, intel celeron-D 2.53GHZ processor, 80GB seagate HDD, 256MB DDR RAM. My problem is motherboard is not taking the display driver.I

Ever since I got involved with computers (1997) or at least up to a few years ago, I've wanted to keep up with the latest equipment as far as budget would allow. Now though I feel fairly satisfied with what I've got - a 4 year old Pentium 4 2400 with a gig of ram, a decent 128 mb video card, a...

I installed a 250 GB Western Digital hard drive in a dell Dimension 8300, as a second hard drive (i.e. not as a boot drive). I then ran the WD Data Lifeguard Tools (from my boot drive), which then (said it had) partitioned and formatted it. When I went to use the drive, Windows told me it wasn't...

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