Here's an interesting experiment in ATX case cooling done by a modder with a website called "BenchTest.com" - http://www.benchtest.com/way2cool3.html . During his experi- ments, he made a cutout for a fan in the front lower portion of the metal case, centered among the existing vent holes. ...

My Western Digital external USB 500GB disk has been working for months on a variety of Windows XP Home & Professional machines but all of a sudden, it is found in Windows but Windows says it's a RAW disk with no data. Can a virus convert a perfectly good disk into a "raw" disk (whatever that...

I run XP on a old VIA266A mobo + Duron 1800 MHz processor. I am in the UK. --------------- I want to plug a line-input from a tap on my home telephone line or from my audio player which runs off the mains. I get a lot of hum plugging the line input into my mobo (Syntax SV266A with a VT8235...

Long story (background in thread "Newbie: 3 lots of CPU temp in SpeedFan? 2 of them are overheating ..." from last week) but in short I have an over heating problem, I've done some tests, and today I realised that the CPU heat sink is not getting warm at all but by contrast the much smaller...

X-posted to: comp.sys.laptops alt.comp.hardware microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware, Greetings, I've been given a brand-new AMD-based Acer 5044WLMi laptop with WinXP. My work requires that I use a certain DOS-based CAD program which uses a

I just built a new computer, and when I turn it on, it turns off in about 4 seconds. I hear a longish beep, and all 4 fans in the system are turning before the whole thing shuts down. There is no time for anything to show up on the monitor. The system is as follows: CASE - COOMAS|CAC-T05-UB...

I located a free partition table fixer on the Net a couple months ago and used it successfully. I need it again and was wondering if anyone knew of a free one on the Net because I can't find it. For some reason it looks like the first partition on one of my drives got hosed. I tried to run...

I am looking to build a new machine on a low tight budget and so cannot consider either of the new cpu's from intel & amd i.e the core 2 and the x2 respectively. Using the cpu charts on toms hardware guide I can see that the pentium d 820 is by far the best choice in terms of the type of...

I've been working to sort out a video issue on a Sony laptop. On startup, the screen presents vertical multi-colored lines on one half of the screen briefly before going black. Also there is a light halo around the edge of the screen that sort of gives a tunnel vision effect. It fades to...

"Piotr Makley" wrote in message ... I use a 1-point Pozidriv screwdriver made by Stanley for work on my PC. it works very well. It seems to be the best point size and type. I get little slippage. The cross-slots hold well. Etc. ...

I used to run my other motherboard without a case because it kept itself in an ON state as long as I didn't boot down normally (I just switched it on/off with the power supply). However, I got a new motherboard, and it doesn't seem to keep itself in an ON state if I switch off power suddenly. Is...

I am wondering if a normal 200V AC input ATX PSU can be converted to run on a 192V DC Rail, considering the enormous electricity my 16 battery online UPS is using it must be more efficient running the computers directly an the 192V DC rail and running the monitors on a seperate offline inverter...

man wrote: This has probably been talked about before here... I'm building a new system...the goal is to avoid building a new system for the longest possible time. It's come down to getting an AMD Athlon 64 3200+ with 1MB cache, or a Pentium 4 (Prescott) 3.0 GHZ with 1MB cache. In...

Hello, I am building a new sys from newegg products. I would appreciate any input on the hardware I have selected: ------------- Antec SONATA II Piano Black Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case 450Watt SmartPower 2.0 ATX Thermaltake XRound Cable SATA-UV 18-Inch 2-Head (SERIAL ATA 150) Cable, BLUE...

Why is this so small? Alternatively, why aren't they all so small? Less than 4" x 1 1/4" x 1/3". Is it a real HDD, a spinner, with a rotating platter? It calls it a harddrive more than once, and never uses SSD, etc. but it's so small....

Franky wrote: Is it safe to use WD40 as a switch (or potentiometer) cleaner on circuit boards and in electronic equipment? I know that you can get the proper aerosol spray cans of switch cleaner but if I find myself without one of those then can I use WD40? Personally I would...

My 6 month old HP Pavilion with Pentium 4 3.2 GHz processor is very slow in opening new applications. When I click on an icon on the desktop, start menu, control panel, etc. there is nearly always a 10 second (sometimes more) lag before the application opens. This is not new; it has always...

Hi, I got a new Athlon XP 2500+ Barton and installed it with its heatsink/fan. When I booted my machine, I didn't see a POST screen and the light on the monitor just kept flickering on and off. My memory was 266Mhz PC2100 and my motherboard (ASUS A7V8X-X) says it only supports 333Mhz RAM with a...

Its not working properly.

Piotr Makley wrote: I am running a Duron in a Syntax mobo with a Via KT266A chipset. http://tinyurl.com/yt2an I want to upgrade to an Athlon but the vendor site has no info on the fastest cpu I can run. Am I limited to Palomino's? ---