I know from experience that Windows 2000 in general does not tolerate a switch from motherboard to another motherboard. I understand this to be related to chipset differencences and ATA controller differences on each motherboard. I currently have a Shuttle motherboard with Athlon XP 1600 + with...

A new PC, made from existing parts, all of which were working in different systems a month ago, seems perfectly stable with the exception of locking up irrepairably occasionally. It passes all stress tests and seems usually to freeze when idle. According to MBM, the 12volt line is often as low as...

I am looking for an AT case (not ATX!), preferably a baby AT. Does anyone know where i can get one in the UK? TIA, rob.

I would like to know from your experience when you decided to build/design a computer, what is the first steps to start with? I mean which part you would select first?? (the CPU, mb, memory etc) and why? How do you select these components and why? The market if full of different brands name (there...

I have just purchased a new Western Digital 80gb hard drive, I get it home, install it as master, run FDISK, and can only achieve 10gb. I have a PIII700, Bios detects the hard drive as 80gb. I have flashed to the latest bios, but still no joy, My Master drive is 40gb Maxtor, and I want the 80gb...

SOYO SY-K7V Dragon Plus Athlon XP 1700+ Windows XP Home Edition Roxio Easy CD Creator 5.0 Am experiencing a very frustrating problem which I am having much difficulty narrowing down. Special note: this unit worked fine for about 18 months before the problem surfaced. During the past week I...

I use a Volcano 9 on my system. I used "Isopropyl Alcohol" to clean the top of the CPU and the heatsink. (Bought from Maplin.co.uk in the UK) Then I used Artic Silver II, spreading it thinly (I put my finger in a thin plastic bag and spread it round.) Spread it on the heatsink so that it...

A long article. "Our editor moves into a new house, and decides to build himself a real home network. He finds that getting professional level results can be quite a challenge. We take an in depth look at the installtion of a new high-powered home network, running wires through walls, making your...

Just notice cases are made in either steel or aluminum. How do you pick one over the other? Why do we have two choices anyway? If one is better than the other, wouldn't the industry have adopted the better one by now?

A good article for the non-expert. "When it comes to your system's performance, the main bottleneck is your system memory. Optimizing it can speed up your PC considerably. We tell you how to do it." - http://www6.tomshardware.com/howto/20030701/index.html Eric, PC Buyer Beware!

"envoy" wrote in message ... Here is a strange development. I am building a system from scavanged parts with some new stuff thrown in, but that is not the strange part. I am using a an ASUS A7S-VM mobo with an...

My son installed a new cd-rw in his computer. It is an old AMD 450 mhz version that I gave him. When I gave it to him we reformatted the hard drive and installed win 98se. It was working fine before he installed the cd-rw. the computer still works fine but the drive will not write. It looks...

Hi, I have a Pavilion XH535 and about a month ago it had trouble reading cd's, but it eventually would. Now it won't read them at all. My Computer sees the cd, and when I put a disk in it, it spins but then says there is no CD in the drive. It's a DVD/CD combo read only drive. I deleted and...

I am looking to set up a new system to be used mainly fro internet surfing, text formatting, email and low level games. I have decided on an AMD 2.0 or 2.4 Mhz chip and now i am looking for a perfect integrated motherboard to match it. The graphics should be very good (to support the games -...

MotherBored wrote in alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt at Sun, 06 Jul 2003 19:55:05 GMT: What gives? Just a random thought. Sounds like some of the hardware is not getting reset. If you do a ctrl-alt-del in the short time after shutdown before window starts to boot again. will...

Hello All, I have an older computer that runs fine, but is slow (550). I would like to put a newer motherboard and CPU in. I have assembled new systems before, but have never upgraded. So, my question is: will this have any impact on my hard drive data, i.e. will I lose programs or have to...

How many fans do i need for a P 4 2.8 ghz system with a workstation class quadro fx 1000 card and 1 gb of ram? I will also be including two hard drives. Thanks Alan

"philo" wrote in message ... "bern11" wrote in message ... I have Win 98 and I'm looking to update. Which works best, XP, XP pro, or...

"Roland the Gunslinger" wrote in message ... Smokes a 3gig Xeon. http://www.apple.com/powermac/ i suppose that now makes my performa 6116cd outdated now g?

I hope someone can help me out with that one. First, this is my PC Setup: Antec TruePower 330 Watts Asus A7N8X (PCB 2.0) CD-ROM & CD-RW 1x 512 Megs 333Mhz DDR Ram ATI Radeon 9500 Pro GCVL Internal ADSL Modem 40 Megs ATA/133 HD.