Hi all, I just received my A7N8X-X mobo w/AMD athlon 2200+ in the mail. When I tried to install it, I got nothing. Power is flowing to the board becuase the fans spin and the power light is lit, but no beep codes and video. Tried removing various components and still nothing. Video and RAM are...

I just set up an air conditioner in the same room as my computer. I've noticed that whenever the air conditioner turns on, the light in my room dims for a split second and then goes back to normal. The computer, lamp, and air conditioner are all plugged into different electrical socket...

Hi all, I'm soon to be reviewing a new 750W psu but I don't have anything for load.. I have seen heavy mention of wire wound power resistors of 'various values' but no mention of what those values are. I can get various load resistors of around 100ohm/10W from ebay.. but oviously 100ohm isn't...

I have an HP Pavilion 533w, with a Trigem Glendale mainboard, that has 9 leaky caps: http://www.geocities.com/chastity403/trigem.jpg I'm a patient, if not terribly skilled, solderer. Can this be fixed, or is the mainboard most likely a frisbee at this point?

I want to build a new computer for my father in law. He now has a 7 or 8 year old Best Buy something or other. The monitor, speakers, and keyboard are ok, so we just need to get him a new system and optical mouse. My son and I have built several systems in the past, but the last was about 2...

I hear that the Barracuda's could be better and that the Samsung T133 models are nothing like as good as models from their previous range. OTOH Deskstar T7K500 and WD SE16s seem better thought of. Some people have said that the Western Digital's are usually unreliable but the SE16's seem to be...

I have two machines - each with a dialup modem. I have them connected Line Machine 2 Machine 1 HP AIO Printer Telephone. My telephone works fine on voice. My AIO printer works fine sending FAX. My dialup on Machine 1 works fine connecting with Netzero. Machine 2's ControlPanelPhone and...

Hi Everyone, I have a bunch of internal hard drives and a few floppy drives that came from my old computer. What I was wonder was, can I access my old hard drives using my new computer? I also have a bunch of floppy discs that I would like to get the information off of. I had read somewhere that...

I plan to spring for a new external hard drive (USB). Anyone care to offer advice on what is good and what is not? What I should watch out for good or bad? 250GB appeals to me. Thanks G

Iraq Less Violent than Washington, D.C. Despite media coverage purporting to show that escalating violence in Iraq has the country spiraling out of control, civilian death statistics complied by Rep. Steve King, R-IA, indicate that Iraq actually has a lower civilian violent death rate than...

I wonder if you can help me. For some reason yesterday my desktop PC's tower unit lost power; I don't know what happened as I wasn't by my PC when it happened, and now I cannot turn it on. Unfortunatley I have a disk in my DVD drive that I need to get out. I have been lead to believe that there...

X-No-archive: yes Hello, My CD-ROM (D:) drive isn't working. It won't run any CDs, and reads them all as audio ones. It won't list the contents of CDs, or shows them all having one file. I use Windows XP. And have searched various help guides for the answer, and tried different things, but...

http://squeedlyspooch.com/blog/archives/000072.html January 15, 2004 The whole surreal story So at 6:30am on January 14th, I woke up to the doorbell buzzing. Not a short lived buzz. Someone had their thumb pressing the button and holding it there. "****ing drunkard" I thought, and rolled over,...

This is unbelievable. IMO, Avoid Circuit City at all costs after what they just pulled on me. I went in on Monday to buy an HP Notebook model ZX5160. They were offering an additional $250 off and with a $100 rebate the price was $1199. I saw their model ZX5040US for $199 after rebates. That has a...

Sorry for the x post but I am in deep sh*t.... I posted earlier today and asked under a topic of 'Slower emory...better?' - if 256mb of pc66 memory would be better than 196 mb of combined 64 pc100 and 128mb pc133 memory... Well to cut a long story short I gave it a go and put in the 2 x 128mb...

I have two relatively new 80GB WD HDs of the same model. I have the latest 80-wire, blue-connector, cable-select IDE cables for both IDE channels. Actually I have three of the same model disk, two with identical model numbers and one with a slight difference in the last two characters. What I...

Almost every time I reboot my Win2K/SP4 system, CHKDSK runs because Win2K detected a "corrupt ntfs filesystem" on the boot disk. Every once in a while I get a BSOD instead, in which case I have to move the bad disk to D: and run CHKDSK manually from inside Win2K. In both instances CHKDSK fixes the...

Is it possible to get more flexible 13 Amp mains lead to replace those leads which hardly seem to bend? I guess that these "inflexible flexes" are made of tough version of PVC and contain and fewer but larger individual wires in the cores. Presumably having fewer cores is a cheaper way to make a...

I once had a CDR drive and a CDRW drive. Now I only have the latter. The CDR drive still shows up in 'My Computer' etc and ties up a drive letter of course. How do I remove it? I no longer need it and would like to get rid of it. Thanks

Hi All, I just took the side of my case to improve CPU temps and noticed two things: 1) The PSU is very hot. I mean to the point of burning your hand almost (as is the exhaust air from the back). 2) I think the fan on the bottom is blowing hot air into the case, not out. Removing the side...