The "two processors" sensing and the "ht" reference is because of hyperthreading (http://www.intel.com/info/hyperthreading/). As far as I know, it's almost impossible to overclock a Dell--the...

Then the board "thinks" that the battery is dead or not connected. Check the battery itself and the jumper setings.

The FSB has nothing to do with the real-time clock. If the battery is good, it should be OK. Make sure that the CMOS-clear jumper is in the "normal" position and not the "clear" position and that...

Not a very good board. The 810 chipset is pretty minimal, the built-in graphics are barely adequate, and there's no AGP slot to add another card. Good for the Internet and word processing, not much...

See http://www.wimsbios.com/index.htm?/numbers.shtml and

http://www.chaintech.com.tw:8008/Downloads/MBBIOS.htm

You may need to update the BIOS, or it will probably have either an 8 GB or 32 GB...

The PIII Celeron works fine with the BX chipset--they were made for each other. As long as the adapter is of good quality, add a decent heatsink and you could be able to push it to 600 MHz or more,...

No, that two pairs (128/128, 256/256) beats one-pair-plus-one (128/128, 256/0)--depending on the hardware. This also assumes that you have Windows 2000 or XP, since Windows 98 will choke on more...

Yes. Another aspect depends on which processor and motherboard that you have. If it's a Pentium 4 with a 533 or 800 MHz front-side bus, pairs are best, anyway. If that's the case, you are taking a...

If you are running Windows, AIDA32 (http://www.aida32.hu) will identify the motherboard brand & model, BIOS version, processor speed, and more. Unfortunately, development has recently ceased on this...

Once we know what version of Windows you are running and what the brand and model of the motherboard are, we might be able to help. It sounds like a problem with the BIOS settings.

It's possible that the modem is defective or that the motherboard was damaged by it or the installation. Has it been tried with the modem out? Which slot was it put into?

Since you have tried 2...

I haven't had problems with mine, nor the others that I have seen. The fact that I won mine in an AMD contest doesn't affect my judgement here; anything that's mass-produced is going to exhibit the...

Some newer PCs have the ability to flash a picture into the BIOS itself. I can't give you brands, but I did see something about this recently. An interim measure would be a custom logo for Windows...

No, it means there's most likely a driver that needs updating, as I said before.

Since it's happening at shutdown, it's more likely a driver incompatibility. It's not unknown for a Windows update (for example) to cause a driver to start failing, or for updating one driver to...

No, they are not lying. Many Intel-based systems (and low-end systems in general) use an onboard video adapter that uses memory shared with the system, so it does not appear in the available-memory...

But streaming video is what we are discussing here, and that's absolutely the worst possible use for the Celeron.

The Celeron processor was developed for one reason only: marketing-by-numbers...

Will research for you. Full answer later (going out to trade show).

Do you mean Motherboard Monitor?

As I pointed out in another thread, the 800 MHz and 533 MHz front-side bus speeds that Intel advertises are more than a bit misleading. These are quad-pumped busses -- two interleaved DDRAM...

Computer cases are designed with a specific airflow in mind -- that's why the power supply (with its exhaust fan) is at the top-rear of the case and the intake fan (if any) is at the bottom-front or...

What kind of motherboard (brand/model) do you have? Some quad-pumped RAM setups (AMD/nForce boards and the Intel so-called "533 MHz" and "800 MHz" chipsets, for example) require RAM in pairs for...

Are you specifically tied to an Intel platform? AMD offers considerably more bang-for-the-buck than either the badly-crippled (cache-starved) Celeron or the P4. You can use the money you save to...

Here (http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=16-115-004&depa=1) is but one good-fit example (it looks like HighPoint is a better choice for you than Promise); I'm sure there are...

The short answer? No.

The long answer: probably, if you use a PCI ATAPI controller like those available from Promise or HighPoint. See the manufacturers' literature for details. The other...

Have you updated your Intel chipset drivers (http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?id=17)? They are updated on a regular basis -- reinstalling usually won't fix that kind of problem. It may be a...

That's likely your problem -- too small a power supply for the system. If you are concerned about temperatures, download something like CPUCool from http://www.podien.de or Motherboard Monitor from...

Make sure that the heatsink is right and on correctly. Use CPUCool to check the temperature at normal speeds. With that board, you should be able to bump the front-side bus speed up to about 180...

Go into the BIOS and turn off Quick Boot. Perhaps the more verbose mode will give you more information. Try a MemTest86 floppy from http://MemTest86.com

It could also be something as simple as a...

That's why I said that anything more than two drives was overkill...

Assuming that it uses a Slot 1 Pentium II processor, it's probably an Intel board with the LX chipset. It was the predecessor to the BX chipset. The LX supports 66 MHz SDRAM and 2 USB ports, along...

There are add-in PCI boards that can provide additional IDE ports -- but remember, a DVD-burner can burn CD-Rs and CD-RWs as well as playing DVDs, so anything more than a DVD +/- burner plus a...

It looks pretty decent, but I would add an OEM SB Live! at about $30 to replace the crappy AC '97 audio. Also note that for $25 more you can get the ECS K7S5A with on-board LAN and slightly better...

It sounds like power supply problem. A PS has a startup cicuit, and if it's not working properly, it won't start up. Another, related possibilty is that the output voltage is out-of spec on warm...

This is not a bad thing. 80-conductor cables have better signal integrity, and both drives and controllers can sense (by the additional ground wires) that such cables are in use. The d2 reference...

In my opinion, this is exactly what's happening--1.79 GHz is exactly what a 2200+ runs at. The fact that it shows that result sometimes indicates that all is OK.

Brand? Model? Which processor? It seems like there's a mismatch between the BIOS settings and the actual hardware configuration, but more information is needed.

A case fan only draws about 250 mA, so this is easy. Strip back the red and black wires about 1/2 inch. Grab one of the large drive power connectors. The 12V wires are black and yellow. Use a...

Personally, I prefer AMD over Intel, so I'll stick to that aspect.

It mostly depends on what you want to do with it and your preference in motherboard manufacturers. Overall, the best chipset for...

It's smoke and mirrors. The true clock speed in this case is 166 MHz, but since it is designed to work only with DDR RAM, they refer to a 333 MHz bus.

Not that I blame AMD--Intel is even worse . ...