Forum: Cases, Fans and Power Supplies  Mar 19th, 2008 |
| Replies: 11 Views: 10,411 Re: Good PC Temp
All AMD processors are rated at a limit of 100°C safe operating limit. Keep below 80°C for optimal performance and useful life. If you are reaching temps of 90°C or greater, your cooling is... |
| Forum: Troubleshooting Dead Machines Mar 19th, 2008 |
| Replies: 3 Views: 373 Half-dead Gateway machine. BSD firewall?
I have a Gateway 500MHz machine which works perfectly fine with exception to a windows GUI. Works fine in DOS mode, in DOS, it seems as functional as it was meant to be, but will not function when... |
| Forum: Troubleshooting Dead Machines Mar 19th, 2008 |
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| Forum: Troubleshooting Dead Machines Mar 19th, 2008 |
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| Forum: Troubleshooting Dead Machines Jan 20th, 2008 |
| Replies: 1 Views: 417  Re: Hard drive randomly parks head
Just a quick update; I am running a fully updated win98SE OS (praise the person who made this possible), as for whatever reasons I cannot run Xp on this machine. I am a cripple with no money, so ANY... |
| Forum: Troubleshooting Dead Machines Jan 19th, 2008 |
| Replies: 1 Views: 417 Hard drive randomly parks head
current kit:
MB: as7V8X-X
Athlon 1300+ CPU (?)
256mb RAM
Western Digital Caviar HDD (3x) 40gb/20gb/4gb c/d/e respectively.
At any time, from during POST to hours after startup, drive 1 will randomly... |
| Forum: Peripherals Jun 29th, 2007 |
| Replies: 2 Views: 643 Re: 25pin to 9pin conveter
I have often had problems with serial-to-parallel adapters in the past. Try having your friend use a laptop that has a real serial port on it, and the problem should be solved. Runniing serial... |
| Forum: Peripherals Jun 29th, 2007 |
| Replies: 3 Views: 741 Re: Wireless Problem
After resetting your router, try a different wireless channel if you still have issues. Sometimes certain frequencies (be it weather, sunspots, or general RF traffic) can get noisy and give your WLAN... |
| Forum: Peripherals Jun 29th, 2007 |
| Replies: 2 Views: 566 Re: Spacebar
your keyboard's driver chip might have fried, or you have to dissasemble the keyboard and clean it. Use a clean. dry, lint-free cloth to clean the keyboard membrane, and use a *quality* pencil-eraser... |
| Forum: Peripherals Jun 29th, 2007 |
| Replies: 3 Views: 1,040 Re: IR led trouble
USB is 5V, and should have more than enough power for an LED lightbar.....but are you sure you have polarity correct as well? Try adding one LED in the lightbar that projects visible light, so you... |
| Forum: Peripherals Jun 29th, 2007 |
| Replies: 7 Views: 24,609 Re: Keyboard Problem
As suggested above, try using a different keyboard and see if the problem remains, or changes in any way. Sometimes the pins break-off in the PS/2 port, sometimes it's cable fatigue, sometimes the... |
| Forum: Windows 9x / Me Jun 16th, 2007 |
| Replies: 11 Views: 2,497 Re: WIN 98 reinstall -- no sound
Use a *quality* pencil-eraser to burnish the card's contacts on both sides, then wipe with a lint-free cloth under firm pressure. try it again. If it still doesn't work, it is not the connection to... |
| Forum: Windows 9x / Me Jun 16th, 2007 |
| Replies: 6 Views: 2,325 Re: Missing system and registry files
These files can be recovered online if you look well enough...Try searching http://www.dll-files.com/dllindex/ for these. I am running 98SE as well, so if ya can't find them, I can upload them to ya... |
| Forum: Troubleshooting Dead Machines Jun 16th, 2007 |
| Replies: 1 Views: 443 Win98SE Display issues
I am running win98SE (fully updated) and often have the problem of retaining my desktop resolution (1600X1200x32) when certain games crash. Upon reboot, windows plays stupid and actually thinks I... |
