Hello: I am trying to troubleshoot an issue that just came up with my Soyo SY-6BA+100 motherboard. The system started locking up more and more frequently in Windows. So I spent a day and removed/swapped out every piece of hardware, even swapped the memory and processor with known good spare...

Here's my situation: I've had my XP x64 installation up-and-running since May. About a week ago, I experienced a brief freeze and had to do a hard boot. The machine ran fine for another day or so then froze again. Rebooted and got a "Machine_Check" blue screen error indicating a hardware...

I bought a Stratitec USB 2.0 Upgrade Card for use in an old MMX-233 Supermicro computer. OS XP Home SP2. The computer doesn't recognize the card for installation. It requires a PCI v2.1 slot for the card. I'm wondering if the problem is because the PCI bus is not ver. 2.1. How can I tell which...

I'm going to replace the C drive in one of my computers and want to create its image on an external USB drive to be written to the new drive. When I boot the comp from the Ghost CD, will it be able to "see" the USB drive?

I am thinking about buying a KVM Extender so I can put my computer in a wardrobe and get it definately quite when I sit by the computer. My wonder is how good the video quality is for KVM Extenders. Will I get any noticable decrease in video quality? I don't play any fancy games and have a screen...

I have a perfectly good SATA drive, and want to use it as an external drive with USB 2.0 and/or FireWire. But I can't find an enclosure that accepts SATA drives. They all want IDE/PATA drives. Anybody know if there's a SATA box out there? Thanks.

I do video editing, watching movies on computer. whats a good graphics processor, amount of video ram to do this??

I've got a computer with graphics and sound on the motherboard. I'm wondering if upgrading to pci-e and pci (sound) parts would reduce cpu utilization?

Its a long story, but here's where I'm at.... I have a 40GB hard drive partitioned as follows: 5GB FAT32 35GB NTFS What's the simplest way of re-formatting and re-organising this drive to be simply 40GB FAT32 so that I can install windows 98 on it? I have the windows 98 setup cd, but it can't see...

Hi, I have that motherboard, but I have a question that I can not get any answer from Asus or the Mobo's instruction I already have the nVIdia SATA controler fill, and when I try to add another to the second SATA connector set, all I get is an error message telling me that there is no proper...

My config: 400w power supply. (3 fans total in the case) P4 3.0GHz 1G RAM PC at home. Radeon 9800 Pro graphics card 2 x HHDs (80G & 200G). I have always wondered what it costs (approx) to leave the home PC on most of the evening and nights. Usually, on the weekends the PC would be on 12 hours Sat...

Hello: I'm running Windows 2000 with an Nvidia GeForce 440MX graphics card. Yesterday, having done nothing unusual, I started up the PC and it told me that it had miraculously "found new hardware" -- Nvidia Dualview. At the same time I find that my display has gone wrong. Resolution has been set...

New Abit VT-7 motherboard, Western Digital WD-1600 SATA First Generation drive. Cannot install W2K. Setup program says there is no drive to install on. BIOS doesn't show drive as existing. Western Digital diagnostic from floppy shows drive as good and able to write 1/0 to it. Why...

ok i bought a shuttle mini box case with the mother board and a 250w PSU i droped 400 bucks into it. in runs fr a bit and freezes, the problem: the 9600xt and the athlon 64 bit 3000+ together take about 300w under full load, hence y it frooze during xp install. so can anyone tell me what the...

Hi, I have an HP Pavilion XE763 that a friend gave me that won't power on. My first instinct is to check the PSU, but the ATX connector is weird. One pin has no wire, another pin has two wires, and there is a three wire connector marked as "FAN-C" that plugs in to what looks like a fan header on...

Hello everyone, need to tap into collective wisdom of the group planning for building my next PC. Actually, planning a PC is already a step up for me in itself. I normally just slap together parts bought at the local computer fair ;-) Anyways, seriously speaking, I want to do it right this time,...

Hi all, I've recently bought a ASUS TV FM Card. I've installed driver and theater (ASUS Home Theater) software succesfully, but when i try to watch tv on my computer using the card and the theater software I only get a black screen without sound. When I do an automatic search on tv-channels it...

Hi I've just been given a **Viper v7700 deluxe 32mb tvr video card, which supports 4x and 2x AGP (and requires 3.3 volts** according to the manual). I've just unplugged the card to replace the fan and the PC tech. at the local shop informs me there could be a voltage issue between video card...

I see a PC and it says it's FSB is 1600Mhz, however elsewhere I think I have seen the same PC and it says it's FSB is 333Mhz Which is quite a difference. Can anyone explain this? Also another example is an AMD 64 3000+ with a FSB of 1600Mhz and a Semperon 3000+ with a FSB of just 333Mhz (I have...

HI, this is my first post here because I Guess this is a hardware problem indeed and the only sollution I can think of is splicing. I'll cut to the chase... I've been fidling with the end of my monitor vga cable for a while now because there was dammage and the only way to get the colors right...