with same or new mobo. Minutes ago I opened this group for the first time. I looked through a bit, but here goes again probably, and things can be different. My question is about maintaining all of the advantages inherent in my hardware, and as I'm not sure what they are, I have to ask. ...

Hi, Got a big big problem : I'm working on FM radio Station. We use a small german prog to record 15 hours loops, infinitly, so that we can save our work if needed - if something good, live, happens .... Here is the prog : http://www.looprecorder.de/ This app uses a special method of disk...

I had a bad experience with a Gigabyte power supply that I bought from Newegg, so I posted a review of it reflecting my opinion of it. The manufacturer's response seemed humorous, so I thought you might enjoy it. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817233010 My favorite part of...

Assuming a tower case, which is going to keep all the hardware cooler, the case open on both sides or a sealed case with a pusher on one end and a big puller on the other? Thanks for all input.

I am having trouble with a new system I have created. It freezes during boot at the XP setup window pretty much the first time I power up each morning. When I re-power up it boots to desktop just fine. It's almost like it is having trouble cold-starting. The system has three hard drives, one...

ok, this is a long one but i really am clueless on this one two week ago i set up a "fileserver", as i'm a visual nut and not a server nut i went for a simple xp pro machine with a raidcontroller: asus p5k-vm with intel c2d e4300 - 1GB ram, promise fasttrak tx4310 PCI raid controller, 4 samsung...

About ten days ago I suddenly started having a problem with my PC rebooting, started from nothing to doing it very regularly, no gradual development into the problem. Sometimes it reboots very quickly, sometimes it will run for an hour or so without any problem. I ran my virus and malware scans,...

Consider the PC that is bought by the average person : Intel or AMD based CPU, Motherboard, RAM Hard disk CD/DVD drive 15" monitor Keyboard, mouse, speakers If the power requirements of these were calculated: (the values that

Hello, I have a PC with 2 SATA hard disks in it (logical C and D drives) and wish to replace the "C" drive with a new hard disk. How do I know which is the "C" drive in the case? I once before got the wrong and the PC tried to boot off the "D" drive which then made the files on this disk...

Isn't there a limit to processor speed? I mean they cant simply go on bringing ever faster processors ? There should be some theoritical limit to it. what is that?

So, the world is migrating to free internet access. Even the NYTimes, today, has an article on the subject, saying, in effect, "It's not coming, it's here!" (The first paragraph, in part: "No fewer than 300 cities and towns around the nation have taken wireless Internet access, or Wi-Fi, to the...

Hei! Jeg lurer på hvordan jeg finner ut om jeg har usb 2.0 (high speed usb 480 mbps). Takk Mvh

I've been building a system, but the graphics card (Geforce fx5900) won't sit snugly in the agp slot because the metal strip (where the monitor plugs in) is too long and hits the bottom of the ATX case causing the card to barely make full contact with the agp slot and it's been giving me...

I want to attach a video camera to the top of a 20 foot pole and see what the camera sees. A Wired: I have an old USB camera, never used, and it won't install right now (but that's a separate topic) Assuming I can install it, it has a 6' cord. Is it likely I'll be able to attach a 20'...

Hello, I am thinking about implementing a RAID system for my server. I need to install something external because of the lack of room inside of the machine. What I am asking is what type of issues do I need to be looking at? It seems that I have heard of RAID 'boxes' specifically designed for...

APC BACK-UPS XS 1000 purchased at Staples. 2002 model. I am also wondering about the quality of products like this sold by this and other companies mentioned by APC tech support like Fry's. Now that this unit has failed and I have become aware that there is absolutely no replacement battery...

New mobo/cpu, RAM, case, power supply, Windows XP user here. Hard drive is a few months old. Windows XP seems slow when switching tasks on the internet. E.g. from Outlook Express to my Fidelity account page to finance.yahoo.com pages. Several folks at the microsoft.support newsgroup indicate the...

Well folks, this one is a bit complex. Wondering if anyone can assist. I was given an AMD K6-2 300Mhz Desktop with Windows 2000 Pro installed to get it back up and running. The error that appears as Windows 2000 loads up is: The following file is missing or corrupt \WINNT\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM

I just bought an ECS K7VTA3 ver. 8c mobo and noticed that it has only about a third as many electrolytic capacitors as most mobos. Has anyone ever seen a fairly recent mobo with so few? Before you say that ECS makes cheap mobos (this one was $40 at Fry's, with Duron CPU), my other ECS mobos,...

Hi! Could someone please explain why in the case of *mechanical* failure HD becomes sometimes undetected by BIOS and/or the operating system (e.g. win xp or linux)? If it was an electronic failure then such behaviour would be obious, but why the same happens with some mechanical failures? When...