Hi all: I have a P4 2.6 GHz on an ECS motherboard, for a system I'm building for a friend. When I first booted the PC, the monitor didn't even detect that the PC had been turned on (the power LED didn't turn green from orange). No BIOS beeps or any other indication was forthcoming. I tried three...

The graphic card I'm going to be getting is the Radion 9800 XT as it apparently is a better card then the nivida Geforce 5950 which I was originally going to buy going by this review site: http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=NTM3 Or maybe as it'll be in the first quarter of next year the...

I want to try flashing/updating my bios, but I haven't done it before, is there a really explicit guide for a Newbie flasher?

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Hi everyone, I have a problem with my soundcard - i guess. I have installed picaview 2.0 and also tried contextview pro, i encounted this cracking sound when i preview mp3s. it seems to be worst when i am previewing high bit mp3s eg.320 ones and quiet okie for 128 Tried playing these songs on...

Was in a computer store today and saw some motherboard stating that you could only use a 1.5Volt AGP card with it. What spec is this, how can you tell if a graphic card is 1.5V or an older specification? Does this have to do with AGP 1x, 2x or 4x ??

Hi My P4-2.6, 800MHz FSB, Intel D875 mobo, 512MB ECC RAM and Win2k, but sometimes when I silens\ce a range of audio samples in Cool Edit Pro 2.1, some of the samples end up with weird values (and therefore make weird noises). When that happens I can usually close it down OK except that I get the...

Aopen Ak77 600GN Motherbaord. Where do you connect the internal PC speaker to on the motherboard (on board graphics card) Also what does the small wire connected from the CD ROM to the CD IN part of the motherboard serve a purpose for. I only have one of these wires and I am installing two CD Rom...

I have never experienced this problem before and I'm baffled... Biostar M7VKQ motherboard. Brand new Maxtor 40GB hard drive. OEM Sony 24x8x32 CDRW drive 256 MB Crucial PC133 SDRAM Windows XP Professional I boot to the Windows XP disk and begin the install process. Single NTFS partition and...

Hello, I got computer with video card ATI Radeon 9200 (128 MB). I was going to connect my two monitors, both with VGA plugs. At the time I did not know difference between DVI-D and DVI-I so I thought that I would simply buy a DVI-VGA adapter for $5 and later, when I would buy LCD monitor, I...

Hi all I just got myself a new CPU (athlon 2600 XP+, 266 fsb) and it comes with no heatsink/fan. I was wondering if I can use my heatsink/fan from the Athlon XP 1.7+ CPU that I currently have with this new CPU. Or do I need a stronger fan and an bigger heatsink or can I swap CPU and keep the older...

USB ports 2 & 3 won't recognize anything attached to them. BIOS is set for all USB. Checked the cables to ensure they were connected identical to my other AK32A box which works perfectly. Wondering if others have had a similar problem and what the fix, if any, was.

Does anyone know the jumper settings for a 1998 8gb Maxtor N256 hard drive.

At newegg they have 256mb sticks of Kingmax and Buffalo (at pc3500 and pc3200). Suprisingly they're all in the same price range. Can anyone tell me if one brand of Ram is better than the other? Also, would a 3500 be better for overclocking than a 3200?

I will be putting together a system within the next week or so using a NF7-S. I want to run dual channel. I will be using it to surf the internet, play Tomb Raider & Madden, & use MS Office. I would like to use 1Gb of HyperX memory, but it has shot up $75 higher in the last week. Will I suffer much...

I have a tower case, that I want to use to house three DLT drives and have an internal to external SCSI cable on the back to connect it to my main PC. Is there a way to get the power supply in this case to power up without a motherboard attached to it? I assume if I have any old AT cases around...

I'm planning on getting a mid-tower atx case with the dimenions: 18" H x 17" D x 8" W Will 18" IDE cables and a 10" floppy cable be long enough? Or should I go for 24" IDE and 18" floppy?

I'm going to buy a retail Shuttle AN35N-Ultra motherboard. The box comes with 1 FDD cable (which I assume is floppy drive) and 1 HDD cable capable of supporting 2 devices. My PC will have an ATA-100 Hard Drive and a Lite-On (LTC48161H) CD-RW/DVD drive (I'm not sure what it's ATA is .) My...

I'm going to put a 350w Fortron PSU into an inexpensive case. I'd like case to be mostly black, with USB 2.0 ports and a headphone jack in the front. So far, these are the two that I've come up with: Dynapower...

Hi. I just bought a new enermax (maxpoint.com) case and it came with a temperature gauge in the front. I am certain it didn't blink with a steady display but I just realized it started blinking. Does anyone know how to stop the gauge from blinking or is it supposed to do that??? If it isn't...