AMI 2003 Revision 1021 BIOS. P4C800-E Deluxe Mainboard If anyone has this BIOS and/or mainbord, where is the "WAke on LAN" setting enabled or disabled? TIA

A friend of mine gave me the above 7000 to work on. It is an ATX design with an Athlon 900MHZ CPU. It will not boot! On power-up, there is no video, but the hard drive and CD-ROM drive go through their power on sequence and halt. I removed both IDE cables, floppy cable, and all cards except the AGP...

I have a Shuttle SB51G which has been running a Radeon 9200 (128 MB) fine. Wanted to upgrade the video card. Bought an eVGA GeForce FX5500 (256 MB). Plugged it in. Pushed the switch--nothing. Machine was dead. Nothing. Took out the new, put back the old video card, fired right up. Checked it...

i was lead to beleive that SATA drives are hot pluggable, is that the case or am i just imagining that?? -- Live long and prosper

I have a friend with an Asus P4C800E-Deluxe mobo (Intel 875 chipset) who needs a very large amount of storage on one drive. It will not contain the OS or programs and will be designated as D:. I've ordered two 500gb PATA drives that I intend to set up on the Promise controller as RAID0,...

Clean both surfaces with alcohol. If there is gunk left over from a heatsink pad, clean it off with acetone first (nail polish remover). Then put a small dab of compound in the middle of the chip and attach the heatsink. This works perfectly every time. I know cuz when I remove a heatsink I always...

Question about running 32 bit on this chip . Will it work or will i have to wait for the software to be written for 64 bit ?

I've recently installed a dvd burner, NEC-3550a. Operating system Win98SE. After much experimenting I got it to work with fairly well with Easyburn and dvd+rw disks. So I went on to try a dvd+r disk. It seemed to write ok. But Windows doesn't see anything at all on it. The drive spins and it...

Would like advise on setting up an Internet Cafe... from hardware to software needed... For example: how can I control the time a person is surfing in the event the person pays per hour usage... should I order DSL versus a T-1 circuit... what is the best way to block access to offensive...

Hello! New user to Google Groups looking for a bit of advice about 19" LCD monitors. I've currently got two CRTs (Iiyama Vision Master Pro 500 19" and Mitsubishi Diamond Pro 2020u) and am looking to replace them with a pair of LCDs. They're a bit bulky and the image quality of the Mitsubishi...

I am running 2 sticks of 512 3200 ram in dual channel. If I switch both sticks to the same side of my mobo, and install a one gig stick on the other. Will it still run in dual channel if both sides are matched? Also, if I install a stick with multiple speeds (3200/2700) will it run...

Trevor wrote: BeyondTV Medusa project, a proof of concept that shows that a standard PC, with a standard P/S, and a single 40 GB 5400 RPM HD was able to keep up with 6 simultaneous recordings. Very cool hardware and capabilities But I cant think of anything on TV that...

i have tried two no name brands and tdk-r. i have a liteon 16x burner. i have 8x disks but have beenburning at 4x to increase reliability. The last few disks have managed to burn successfully but failed verification. anyone have a trusted brand of disk or have a problem with liteon drives?

Hi all, Have a real problem im trying to sort out and its driving me mad!!! I have fitted a wireless cctv camera to my front door as a security device and wanted to view and record it via my PC so got a DVR PCI card via ebay (A LYD syd or some name like that i think,its based on a conexant chip)...

Hi Everyone, I would like some help in buying the correct memory for my computer. The original memory is a 184 pin SDRAM DDR 256 UNB PC2100 CL2. I can't find out what the UNB means and I don't much about CL and whether I can buy an CL2.5 to replace a CL2. I found this memory for sale but only the...

My nephew wants one (personally, I'd make the little twerp work for it). I've built about 15 AMD PCs (overclocked nearly all of them!) but never a real gamer. What would you recommend for under $1,000 monitor included? Newegg is my preferred source. I think it would be good if I made him assemble...

I just built a budget socket 754 sys for a penny-pinching person who was NOT picky about performance, and I must say, I was pleasantly surprised by how fast the computer is! I will never sneer at AMD Semprons again. BIOSTAR TForce6100 Socket 754 NVIDIA GeForce 6100 Micro ATX AMD all-in-one...

Hello. I currently have an 80 gig pata full of stuff. I just bought a couple 120gig Sata hd's. What I wanna do, is simply transfer the data on the Pata, to the Sata. What will be my easiest solution..?? Note: Once the data is transfered, I'll be removing the pata. Thanks.

Does anyone have a favorite place where they buy color and black ink jet cartridges? Sites like newegg have black but not color. I have an epson and would prefer to try one of the generic brands, both color and black. Thanks. -g

I need to replace the video card in my kids' (11 years old) computer because the present one does not work properly with some of their games. The computer is a P4 at 2.4GHz CPU, so it is still OK. Any recommendations for under $100?