Hi, One of my computer is down right now. I'm trying to figure out what's wrong with it. It can only be an hardware issue, since it doesn't even POST. I remove the Sound Card, Ethernet card. I replace the video card with a known working one. The memory have been swap / remove / exchange. These...

was goin to get the internal drive as it is cheaper however had a thought..if i get external would i be able to burn to my existing cd writer and the dvd writer at the same time and could this also be done if was an internal writer? thanks Dave

I'm thinking of getting a large capacity external (USB 2, I'm not "firewire ready) HD for storing msuic, etc. Does anyone have any suggestions, or advice? I do burn CD's, but would like to have a larger library of media files available - looking at external rather than internal for ease...

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My wife brought home 2 sticks of DDR ram to replace 133 for her computer (ECS/K7S5A Athlon/1.4 ) and a new heatsink and fan to replace the old one (too loud). The old one didn't look much different than the one she bought. I cleaned the grease from the CPU and put the new one on just to hear...

Is there a trick to making network cable? I've made several and they're very touchy as far as losing their connection when the cable is wiggled?

hi guy's long convoluted story but- my athlon seems to have suffered recently a fatal crash - however i also have a dell p4 -0n 98 me- which needs attention as i was given it with a duff hdd.

I am in the middle of a complete house rewiring, including running phone lines. Since my walls and ceilings are open, I have cart blanche about running wires, so I'd like to get this right while wiring is easy. Unfortunately since I live in the country I can only get dial-up :( Worse, the country...

Last night, in the middle of a game, my computer just went dead and refused to boot up. I think the problem may be the power supply (450W, made by "Rhycom" if you've ever heard of them). I've removed the power supply from the case and tried plugging it in and nothing happens. I just want to...

This might be a stupid question, but I just picked up a K7S5A Athlon board for $20 and it has 2 SDRAM slots and 2 DDR slots. Should I should put in 2 x 256 SDRAM or 1 256 DDR pc2100? Don't know if it will influence a choice, but I am thinking about overclocking it sometime down the road. Thanks

Hi All, I have a new XP system (3GHz P4, 1G DDR, 120G HDD - specific details available if needed) and have noticed a couple of things in the event log which I don't understand. Sometimes, when this system starts up, it has an error within explorer.exe. Eventually the system comes up, but several...

Anyone notice that the Intel factory thermal pad on the new Retail Boxed P4-3.0C is silver/gray colored compared to that found on the Retail Boxed P4-2.4C SL6Z3, which is black. I wonder if they changed thermal pad material composition on the faster P4s?

Here's how to boot between two Windows XP systems without using any special softwa First, Why? 1) Your system hard drive is getting old, and you want to be prepared for a quick switch-over to a new system hard drive when the old one croaks.

Nittaku wrote in message ... Is there an easy way to send tv programs over a network. Something like TV -------- PC1 with TV-tuner-card (hardware encoding?) ------LAN-------other PC2 Is this possible? Any ideas or things to pay...

Hi, Does anyone know what the Enlight Corp. website is? I have looked and I just can find a website for them. I have tryed google and a bunch of others places but still no working website. So if you have a website could you please post it. Thanks

My friends' PC has MBM5 installed and the power supply thermometer is showing peaks of 70-76C from time to time lasting for around a minute, which is classed as a warning in the program. Is this really "dangerous" or just problematic in the short / medium / long term ie being symptomatic of...

My second PC is giving me problems. It is one that was given to me, and since I have no POST (blank screen) I can't tell you a great deal. Normally it runs 24/7 running SETI on WinXP. It is a MSI KM2M Combo (MS6738) motherboard. This morning I found it beeping, one long beep over and over. I went...

I just purchased a ASUS P4P800 Deluxe Motherboard as well as a Pentium 4 3.0 GHZ CPU to upgrade a system I have. The system is in a Antec Case with a 500W Power Supply. What I have in this system is 1 Gig of PC3200 Memory (400 mhz) (one is from my previous system, one new) As well I have a ATI...

Hello! I have a newbie question about dvd-r's and cd-r's. I've noticed some computers are coming out with both a dvd-r and cd-r. Others only have a dvd-r. Is there an advantage of having both a dvd-r and a cd-r? Or is it a redundant feature? One last question, can anyone please explain this:

I'm looking for the best ratio of gigabytes I can get per dollar. The hard drive must be at least 7200rpm, have an 8MB cache, and be IDE-compatible. Any suggestions? Also, reliability is a good quality as well.