"radon" wrote in message ... I didn't know that a FAT32 drive for the swap file would be faster. By how much? There's not a lot in it, maybe 10%. If the drive's on a slow controller it can be noticable. -- ~misfit~

Ok, I've built a strange system from parts. It's an Atrend 6310M mobo. It's an AT, Slot 1 board. I was quite pleased to get it as I have a lot of AT stuff (cases, PSUs etc) that I've been loathe to throw away. I welcomed the chance to use some with this board. I Googled the board and found a...

Something I've been thinking about recently, of the CPUs in the 700Mhz and upwards range, which CPU, or family of CPUs gives the most for the least, electrical-consumption-wise? I'm running a few machines for SETI and am on a budget. I have a bit of hardware and am able to decide which machines to...

Desi Cortez wrote: Erik Funkenbusch wrote: Not the same thing. Those are terminals, which are small computers in their own right (though often quite dumb ones). The OP is talking about using a single PC and only hooking up multiple monitors, keyboards and mice, not...

I have been given one of the above. No box, just mobo (on tray), PSU, 128MB RAM, CPU (with 1MB cache) and am told it works. Yeah, like I know anything about these things! I'd like to get it going. The guy who (very kindly) posted it to me is unavailable at the moment, out of the country on...

We Live for the One we Die for the One wrote: Ifs its the P4 does it win by much as i don't want to get a P4 :) Thanks. Can you please stop the excessive cross-posting? Thanks. -- ~misfit~

Tim wrote: Hi everyone, We must have had a peak in the current or electrical charge and the power supply of the computer gave out. Big time, the motherboard, and CPU are dead, as are the 2 hard disks and the CD-ROM/PD drive. I have no idea on the expansion cards. All data was on...

PLease excuse the slightly OT post. I have two fans here, both 12v. One says 0.19A and the other says 1.4W. Which one is gruntier? Thanks, -- ~misfit~

Hi y'all, I've got a machine here, an old one certainly, that is using an ISA Soundblaster. It has an IDE interface on it that, just for the hell of it, I have hooked a 2.4GB HDD up to. It works fine but is slow. The drive, when connected to the mobo IDE, reports UMDA2. (BX board, ATA33). I was...

Schildkröt wrote: how do i know my motherboard is compatible with possible video cards i want to purchase? for example, do AGP 8x cards work with AGP 2x motherboards (at reduced speed or something). what about the voltages that are sometimes mentioned? what if nothing is mentioned? AGP 1x...

Bobby wrote: I recently noticed that my PC was running slowly. I wasn't sure what was causing it and checked CPU, memory, temperature etc. Everything seemed fine. Then I checked my HD performance - it was awful. I previously benchmarked my entire system (using Performance Test v4) ...

Hi Spajky, I'm about to put a celly 900 coppermine in a slocket in one of my 6163 Pros. (It has the blue sticker to denote coppermine compatability) I'll be using the 'MS6905 Master ver:2.3' slocket. Should I just leave the jumpers on the slocket set to 'Auto' for CPU voltage and let the BIOS...

"hammer" bad_company'ala'barrysworld.com wrote in message ... keeps locking up , not overclocked leadtek ti 4400 been getting worse as the days warm up , british summer time

"Long Gone" wrote in message ... I have an old P-II 200........ Did Intel make a P-II 200? I must have missed that one. But yeah, as YoKenny said, Kerio and AVG is a good combo. -- ~misfit~

"D'Vint" wrote in message ... Is it posible to use a laptop like a remote controll, like for the TV, DVD, Stereo etc. etc. ? It would be perfect if I could controll every application with one controll. I know theres...

God I'm sick of helping 'friends' with their PCs. I need help with this latest one. A while ago I upgraded an old Kaiyo machine for a (financially challenged) friend from an AMD 686 100Mhz to a P166MMX, bumped the RAM up from 8MB to 64MB and slapped in a 256Kb COAST module and added a PCI NIC so...

I don't know if you guys remember my posts from a couple of weeks ago (I can't just add this to that thread as I've just done a clean install) where I couldn't get an old AT machine working for the life of me, swapped out everything to no avail. I was asked to report back when I solved it so here...

Hi Guys. I'm posting this here as I frequent this group and there is a wealth of knowledge here. This could concievably be a hardware problem. I have a strange problem. My g/f's PC, which I built is bugging me a little. It's an XP2500+ Barton running on a 200MHz FSB for 3200+ speed. No...

i unplug the unit from power, and just touch the case before grabbing anything else. never had a problem.

hi everibody. Anyone upgraded this notebook memory from 512MB (2 x 256) to 1 GB (2 x 512)? I cannot find the second slot to insert one of the new 512 MB modules. Thank you for your help. ||ac||