Someone gave me a PCI video controller card labeled as: NTSV/NTSC-J 48432 Rev 1110 Wintv I am hoping it will enable me to record some video clips I have from my old VHS tapes to DVD. On my XP SP3 system, after boot with the card installed it is called a Multimedia Video Controller in Device...

So what the hell can I do? I saw a cool gadget that takes an s-video in and then allows you to play out via two or three scarts. Its possible and is a lot cheaper than a new graphics card.

I notice there is always a great disparity between stated hard drive capacity and actual usable capacity after formatting. Is there a chart or other paper anywhere showing maybe comparisons of this between drives, and maybe an explanation of why and how it happens? Thanks Jethro

Well today we received 2 NEW AMD CPU's, the Athlon 64FX and Athlon 64 3200+. The mainboards were pre-production Gigabyte, GA-K8NNXP and GA-K8NNXP-940. A good start CPU coolers fit like the P4 so the risk of damage when fitting is much lower. We found that the N-vidia FX5900 (Asus) video cards did...

"Paul" wrote Did you get a manual ? Manual is online. Gigabyte driver siftware is online Did you read the section in the manual about "Clear CMOS" ? Yes. I'm not stupid. All power must be removed when you use the shunt! Yes. Since the battery was dead, you don't even need to do

Hi, Does Windows kill the "bootability" other secondary hard drives it finds with the same OS on? Just I had a old machine with Windows 95 OSR2 on, I then upgraded the HD, installed the same copy of Windows on, and used the only bootable hard drive as a secondary, to transfer stuff over, and as a...

just check the BIOS date. It's not accurate but it's close enough. "Skybuck Flying" wrote in message ... Hi, This might seem a strange question: How to determine the age of a computer ?

Hi folks, I have to write a Visual Basic 6.0 Program and need to uniquely identify a computer in a network and the user mustn't be able to change that id while my program is running. So the Volume Serial Number of the HDD isn't a possibility, because you can set the Volume SN whatever you want and...

Nominating new members The Hall of Fame Committee selects new members to the Hall of Fame from a final slate selected by the membership of the Computer Museum of America. Museum members vote from a list of nominees submitted by themselves, industry leaders and the general public. The public was...

"YK" wrote in message ... Neogenesis wrote: I have Win ME and Win 2000 server on the same system. i have 3 hard drives and wondering if i was using windows 2000, where did i place the swap files? ...

If you do a little bit of searching, or I'm sure someone else here will reply with an answer.... there are sites out there what can clock your downstream (and probably upstream too) speeds. Or, you can go to some reliable website, Like microsoft, and download some fairly large file. And divide...

I got an Abit NF7-S which has a 14-pin header for front panel audio connectors. In this header there are 2 pins for the left channel and 2 for the right channel. Across the left-left pins is a jumper and the right-right pins are also jumpered. So there a left o-o left right o-o right where...

On Sun, 22 Jun 2003 16:43:56 -0500, philo wrote: byteryder wrote: On Sun, 22 Jun 2003 13:50:34 -0500, "philo" wrote: "byteryder" wrote in message ...

I intend to this motherboard: Gigabyte SoA VIA KT400 ATX A (http://uk.giga-byte.com/MotherBoard/Products/Products_GA-7VA.htm) and 2 of these memory chips: Dabsvalue 512MB 184Pin DIMM PC3200 DDR RAM Non-Parity CL2.5 (http://www.dabs.com/products/prod-info.asp?quicklinx=2CVGWS) Question Time:

I run XP Pro. My mobo does not support SATA. I have several hard drives. All my HDD's are PATA and 133 MBps My operating system partition is on the primary master HDD. I have placed various cache files in a separate partition on a seperate HDD. ------

This post is a continuation of thread: "Speaker For PC Internal BIOS Computer Motherboard Mini Onboard Case Buzzer Board Beep Alarm NEW." The new title above provides searchable entries. The service life of electrolytic capacitors is 17 years Capacitor 'leakage' had got so bad, the...

Whats the cheapest method of backup? Like per giga byte? Do people still use tape drives these days? And how much do they hold? regards half_pint.

Not a question. Just posting some facts. The Chaintech 7NIF2 is a microATX motherboard using the nForce2 chipset. It has onboard video (Geforce 4 MX) and TV out. This board is EXTREMELY picky when it comes to memory. If you've got weird problems with this board, particularly video corruption...

Hi, I find my PCs (no matter PII, P4) produce big noise after power up and most of the noise being produced by CPU fan. I haven't tried overclocking in any of these PCs and I even open the case to improve ventilation but with no improvement. I would like to know how can I reduce that noise due to...

Followups-To alt.comp.hardware A7N8X Motherboard Low Temperature Sensitivity, CMOS Checksum Error SHORT VERSION: If room ambient temp drops below 25C, system is so