You could just add another controller card to your pc, or you could buy a board that has your 2 standard IDE controllers and a Serial ATA controller.

Well from my experience that problem you have is the same exact one you had before, I've seen them do the same thing and if you turn them off and on it may turn on 1 out of every 8 times or so and...

No problem, the fan is on the heatsink itself so a cheaper approach may be to find and replace the heatsink first as it has fixed some problems for me (usually blue screens and random shutdowns) but...

Since I'm working on one now I'll add that when you are removing the motherboard you will need to remove a screw securing the audio outputs then lift it off the board, uncrew 2 screws that hold the...

It probably will say on the processor, if it is a socket processor it should be engraved on the heat transfer plate on top of the cpu (forgot the real name for that part) while if it is a slot...

Oh no not a 600YGR, those are bad laptops, I've replaced motherboards on about 30 of those things. Sounds like a definite motherboard problem (I thought maybe it was some Hibernation mode thing till...

Well if your going for component level repair your in for a hard time unless you can spot some obvious leaky capacitors or open resisters on the board. A leaky capacitor will have some crud on the...

You can run with just one stick of RAM if it is DDR and not RAMBUS, sounds like a dead board but I had a Shuttle board once that would not post until after I moved the cmos jumper to clear and...

Make sure wherever you buy from will let you return the RAM if it doesn't work, several local places near me would not let you return defective or nonworking RAM- so if you get a stick that is...

Yeah 256MB would be minimum to run decently in my opinion but 384 should definitely be good enough (you could run it at 191MB as well but it may be a bit slow).

Again try booting up with no extra cards or builtin features on (go into bios and disable onboard sound, graphics, nic, etc...) so you basically only have the video card and hard drive attached to...

POST= Power On Self Test, it is a basic test of hardware, you can have working hardware but a bad driver that stops Windows from booting. I saw that on Thanksgiving day when working on my...

You say it restarts when the Windows logo appears, have you pressed F8 before the logo appears and select Safe Mode? If it will boot in safe mode then it is likely a driver issue, have you added...

Do you hear a post beep? If not then maybe the speaker isn't connectec properly so make sure it is and you may be able to troubleshoot it with the beep codes. Have you tried different RAM or...