Hi everybody, I just bought a Biostar NF 4X-A7 motherboard as part of a major system upgrade that included a new video card, more RAM, and a new wifi card. Ever since installing the new hardware (I kept my old processor, an Athlon 64 3700+ on S754) I'd been experiencing stability issues. My new...

Pandora wrote: Dual booting Ubuntu and Vista has been dealt with in other threads but I can't Google an answer to my question: The problem you have is that micoshaft PISTA is inferior technology and doesn't know hot to dual boot into Linux. Unlike Linux which does. So you can dump micoshaft...

Hello My sister is considering buying or having me build her, a new system. She currently has a Dell Dimension 4200. Here of the specs it's specs... http://support.jp.dell.com/docs/systems/dim4200/specs.htm#1101572 ....it currently has a (Dell) nVidia geForce 2 GTS 32MB, a SB Live!, 3-port...

This may be old news to many of you. In considering a new motherboard, I remembered an article I stumbled upon a few days ago talking about bad capacitors in motherboards manufactured in the last two years. I just Googled the topic and found some scary information. I have built three computers...

i am installing winxp onto a new hard drive which is formatted ntfs. keep getting error message"stop c0000221 unknown hard error\systemroot\system32\ntdll.dll" any help would be much appreciated

I have a couple of old hard drives that I would like to get the data off of. Is there an easy way (for me, with computers, nothing is easy) to connect the drive to my existing computer? How about an adapter that plugs into a USB port? Thanks in advance.

I have an old Dell Computer (PIII, 128 megs of RAM). I have one DVD drive, one CD-R, one hard drive and one 250 zip drive. I would like to replace the 250 zip with an old hard drive I have. I tried simply plugging the power and ribbon into the hard drive but Windows 98 does not recgonize the...

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Hi, i have a Win2k machine with a Zyxel modem (earthlink) and a SMC barracade router. It is working, but i am worried about security, I also want to understand what is going on... when i go to http://www.auditmypc.com/anonymous-proxy.asp it says it sees my private IP...

I was wondering if you could have a sata disk register as disk 0 when you have a ata disk install as primary

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I'm re-posting the following to a few newsgroups where I know some people still run win-98 as part of dual-boot setup, or have recently moved away from win-98, or for general knowledge. For at least the past 4 years, some windows-98 users have been able to use up to 4 gb of ram by using these...

Hi, One of my PC's motherboard has I430TX chipset. The manual says it supports SDRAM whose speed is 60/66 mhz. Will new SDRAM availble today work and in what quantities (I'd like to buy one 256mb module, but 2x 128 is also OK)? The board supports max. 256mb. Thanks

wrote in message ... I have a HP LaserJet 4000 which has a parallel port connection. The new PC I have built does not have a parallel port as with these new motherboards now. Is there a way to keep the laser by getting...

I just installed Win2000 on my old Win98SE machine. Using Win98 floppy to boot the machine, then FIDSK to partition and format(fat36) your HDs anyway you want, then install Win2000, at the very begining of the installation, Win2000 will ask you whether you want to repartition or to convert Fat36...

Hello all, this is sort of off topic but I don't know where else to ask. I'm tring to fix my sisters computer, they said it does nothing when you hit the power button. I swapped out the power supply. My problem is they unhooked all the wires ffrom the motherboard and the manual doesn't have a...

Hi I use a ECS Motherboard model L4VXA2 that supports 533MHz I currently use a PC3200, ie 400MHz bus memory. If I put a PC4200, will it work - I understand that PC4200 is a DDR2 technology. Thanks

Hi I use a P4 2.5 Gig cpu 2 x 256 memory PC400 ECS Motherboard model L4VXA2 BIOS - Phoneix AWARD Bios v6.00PG When I get into the BIOS it shows, "Current FSB = 100MHz" I thought that its low ???

The subject says it all. I'm under the impression that Firewire 800 only works at full speed in a 64-bit slot. If I'm right and it's used in a 32-bit slot, what's the point paying the extra money for a speed you'll never achieve in a 32-bit slot? I'm looking at this...

What's the difference between the OEM and Retail versions? The clock speed is slower on the OEM? @drian.