I am thinking of building a new system based on the Tyan K8WE motherboard, and I need some help! Does anyone have a Tyan K8WE motherboard with dual core CPUs? If so, does the bios see both CPUs in each socket? Please let me know what CPUs you are using! Thanks!

This is an older monitor I picked up at a yard sale, a Samsung 900 19 inch CRT. Worked great for the first couple of years, then I noticed the color would shift from a yellow tint to a bluish tint and back a time or two before settling down. The other day I notice up at the top third or so a...

Ok, over the weekend I upgraded from a Intel 815e chipset motherboard with a P3 to a VIA PT880 chipset with a Celeron D. I am now in the world of DDR, quad pumping, timing ratios, etc. I know this is not a fast processor but it's considerably faster than my old setup and I do have some room to grow...

Hi, Can I use a 400Mhz ddr ram memory on a 300mhz bus motherboard? I have an Asus A7S8X-MX motherboard (http://www.asus.com/products/mb/socketa/a7s8x-mx/overview.htm) that accepts 333Mhz Ram memory. I have a 400Mhz 1GB DDR Ram memory. Are they both compatible? -- Thanks,

Can anyone tell me why my P4 machine won't go into standby mode on it's own? - I have no screen saver set - Monitor is set to go blank after three minutes, and works fine. - Harddrive is not set to powerdown after any length of time. - Standby is set to occur after 5 minutes, but never happens...

Hello there, I build up a spare computer from parts laying around and have a question about plugging in the GIGABYTE 8IDX motherboard to the chasis cables. Below the link to the manual screenshot of so called F_PANEL from this MoBo: http://img112.imageshack.us/img112/5050/fpanel1mf.png I have the...

Hi, I am refurbishing a PC for a friend - the case is a standard ATX (Mid)Tower. I want to install three SCSI HD drives internally - the three external drive bays are otherwise occupied. Unfortunately the internal drive cage only holds two HD drives - there is plenty of room for a larger drive...

I have dual CRT monitors but the 2nd VGA monitor connected from the DVI output of the GFX card has much better colour quality than the 1st VGA monitor. Both monitors are same manufacturer, model and resolution and the 2nd monitor uses a DVI-to-VGA monitor. Q: Is this normal for both TFT & CRT...

I have ADSL and wish to install 56K dial up modem back up. I have been told by the PC Manufacturer Medion that 56K dial up is incompatible with ADSL and won't work - is this correct? I have tried installing connections to 2 different ISP's and get an engaged tone each time. If I dial the same...

There is no wiring problem (short circuit, damaged cables..) as far as I can tell. Any ideas? If you've got a multimeter you can test to see if the power adapter is putting out what it should. If not you might be able to find a compatible adapter at radio shack (same voltage, amperage, and...

system specs- AMD athlon 3000 Xp, 1 gig ddr 400 ram, creative ati 9600 pro graphics card, creative audigy, maxtor 80 gig hard drive, asrock K7S8XE motherboard, psu 450w. windows xp service pack 2. recently my sytem started to shutdown by itself this could be during whiel surfing the net or when...

Trying to set up a 56K dial up connection as back up. My modem gets an engaged tone after dialling. When I dial the same number I get an answer from a computer/modem etc. The same thing happens with two different ISP's. I am using one line from my ISDN BT Home Highway connection for this,...

Hey I hope someone can help me with this, because I've had it for a long time now, and as you can imagine, it's really bothersome. Right, on to the problem. A while ago, I bought an external hard drive casing, one that fits an internal hard drive. Along with it, I bought a PCI card with 3...

What's the difference? Thanks, Cody

Could a router with a usb print server be used for other usb functions ? On some routers such as the SMC Barricade BR14U Router there is a built in USB print server. Since this is a standard USB port is there any way this USB connection could be put to other uses - such as sharing files off a USB...

I have the router and cable modem in my room. I am connected wirelessly. Everything is working okay. My wife's machine is connected to the router in my room via Ethernet. She cannot connect to the internet. The light is on the back of her Ethernet connection and on the router. We are members of a...

Hi guys. A couple of questions on overclocking... If you had to pick an AMD64 processor to overclock, which one would you take, and why? I thought an AMD64 939-pin 3000+ Venice core might be good. For that matter, why does a smaller manufacturing die (e.g. 0.9nm) translate to lower heats? If you...

Can someone tell me all about the Winbond W83627THF (ISA 290h) sensor on my MSI 865GVM2-LS (MS-7037). In particular, Everest appears to get the assignment of the CPU and MB backwards. I would expect the CPU to respond to stress much more than the MB sensor, which is what happens. But I do not...

Hi, I've got a seagate 80 gb drive that shows a capacity of only 76317 megabytes when booting (74.53 Gbytes thrugh disk/drive manager) but if I go to the device manager / Silicon Image / Drive info it says: drive capacity 80026 mbytes ! Can please anybody tell me where the 3709 mbytes have gone...

My system, when using higher graphics applications, like Browsing through Google Earth, or some games, it unexpectevely resets... It is like it can't take it anymore and resets....Only happens when trying higher than normal graphics.. everyday type applications, like Office, browsing, etc,...