I'm looking to build a new machine and haven't decided on the memory yet other than to probably go with either the Corsair dominator 2x1GB DDR2 800 in CAS3, which is a bit on the expensive side at $463 for the pair, or the Corsair XMS2 in CAS4 with all other specs the same at $262. I'm already...

I have an old motherboard by pcs, p6set-ml , and it has a socket 370 and a slot one on it. There is no voltage jumper. You configure the FSB and the multiplier in BIOS. I can set the FSB to 100 and mult to 8.0 to achieve a speed of 800 MHZ. It will accept FCPGA Socket 370 chips (celeron and...

Here is the Motherboard Asus A8S-X ID 63-0501-000001-00101111-082605-SiS756$A0217001_ BIOS DATE: 08/26/05 10:36:58 VER: 08.00.10 MB Chipset SiS 756, AMD Hammer I need to know if the following hard drives will work? wd caviar SE (WD1600AAJS, SATA/300, 160GB, 8mb cache) WD caviar SE16 (500AAKS,...

Hi again. I am wondering what Video card to put in my new core 2 duo system. I never really got into graphics too much but it looks like I'm going to be forced to with Vista's requirements and such. What is a good card? What things am I looking for? Thanks!

Almost 2 weeks ago I returned a Seagate HDD under warrantee. Since then I have been seeing a number of reports of problems with Seagate warrantree support, and that when they replace a drive it is with a refurbished drive. Is this a widely held view of Seagate support.

Hi Guys, I have a spare modern pc that my son wants to play some old Win 95 games on. I have the old DOS/Win95 software, but is there a compatability problem with a modern motherboard and hard drive, etc? Is FAT16 and FAT32 an issue? Any comments and suggestions would be appreciated, thanks. Kev...

Can someone help me here? What is the run command to skip the login screen in Win XP and boot straight into the desktop. Somehow I got this back again and want to get rid of it. thanks in advance, MFG

Hello, I have a few USB cables that I have not used in a while. I do not know if they are USB 1 or USB 2 cables. Is there an easy way to tell? Thanks. Talal

Caracteristics: homebuild PC, Intel DG965RY motherboard with integrated audio, Intel Core 2 Duo E6400 processor, GeForce 7100 GS / 128MB DDR2 / SLI / PCI Express / DVI / VGA / TV Out / Video Card Assembled it a couple of weeks ago, audio worked fine, put it on a kvm switch together with a real...

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hello all, just wondering about this..someone gave me a box with ahtlon1900,768m ram and so on..They said it was very unreliable..random reboot..bsod . I suspected bad caps and sure enough a fair few were bulging on the mobo..I've read on the net about replacing caps and how fiddly it...

Hi Folks, My athlon socket a is running at around 1GHz. I'd like to get a new, quiet cpu fan for it (the old one is gummed up and noisy as hell). Anyone have any suggestions? Don't want to spend a mint, of course. Thanks a ton, all. Best, Allie

This is somewhat off topic, but I'm sure the answer lies in this group. I'm interested in using either a 4 or 8 gig flash drive or an equivalent micro-hard drive for off site (and travel) backups of critical files. Assuming I stick to quality brands, which approach do you think will be more...

I'm installing an operating system on my girlfriends brand new system. Every time I get to the step where you format the drive I hit enter to format and I get a STOP error, 0x000000BE. I looked it up, This is a bad ram error stereotypically. So I Ran memtest 32 on it and the ram checks out fine....

OK here's problem for ya all. Have an Asrock k7vm3 that is working just fine. Only problem with is my mike will not work with the VIA sound chip set, something to do with Asrock being too cheap to put a power driver on the board so that us people that don't have USB mike can use them. Anyway I...

So I have an AMD biostar m7ncg 400 that I've been using now for 2 years with no problems at all. I was only running 256 mb RAM and decided to upgrade. Bought this for it from new\egg: (http:// www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16820145026) CORSAIR ValueSelect 512MB 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR...

I am hesitating buying the BFG Tech 7950 GT OC graphics card because it looks like a card geared for more advanced machines and for those who like to over clock. By installing this card does this mean I'll have to monitor its heat more so than the PNY Verto 7950GT? I don't want to worry about...

I have a Dell Dimension 8200 model tower with a cooling fan 9232-12hbtl-2 on it. I unhooked the fan to diagnose a cooling fan that was making tons of noise and it was not that one, it was a fan on an AGP graphics card - I replaced that card, plugged in my fan again and the PC keeps sending me an...

I have a Packard Bell imedia 3054 and am trying to fit a GeForce5500 agp graphics card, but it keeps coming up with "Hardware not supported". I have researched and I believe this card to be suitable. Is it my bios that needs upgrading as well? Pete J

I got a strange problem with a couple of TV tuner PCI cards. One is a Videomate TV/PVR/FM, the other is Fly DVB-T Hybrid. If I plug either one of them into any PCI slot on my motherboard the PC won't boot - the fan and lights come on but the screen is black. If I take the TV card out my PC boots up...